Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision .
2 It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief .
3 Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged .
4 As the officer corps became more professionalized , it became more determined that the army should not be used again to quell civilian protest as in 1905–6 .
5 In an age of imperial expansion and active missionary endeavour , it became harder to believe that everywhere the heathen were damned for their ignorance .
6 Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock .
7 It showed neither surprise nor pleasure .
8 But , with its dimly lit rows of mud and brick house-huts and deeply rutted mud roads , it looked more abandoned than free .
9 Oh , he was clever , and it hurt unbearably to know that now , of all times , she had to lie to him .
10 It took longer to cook than she had expected .
11 I was later puzzled that it did indeed happen as we had prayed it would .
12 In many ways , McLaren was an early , if not the first , prototype of the modern racing team , and it did indeed seem as though Emerson fitted in very well .
13 In fact the report was so useless that it did more damage than had Mitterand kept silent .
14 In this case it did so recognise that connection and Smith had to pay damages .
15 It had immediately bombed and Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail , had had to be brought in to rescue it by throwing out the new design ideas and making it look as old-fashioned as its daily counterpart .
16 It was suffering from a bad wound on its hip , and it had either lost or been abandoned by its mother .
17 The Ingard group is in serious financial trouble , and a fortnight ago presented a cheque for £300,000 which it had neither finds nor a sufficient overdraft to meet — it had already exceeded the limit of the facilities which the bank was prepared to allow .
18 It had barely stopped before Collins had the door open and had bundled then inside .
19 Perhaps because its safe-haven credentials already looked shaky : it had also fallen when Iraqi tanks first rolled into Kuwait .
20 When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities .
21 The defendants , inter alia , submitted that the owner of confidential information could not restrain its use by a party to whom it had accidentally escaped and who had not himself undertaken the duty of confidentiality .
22 Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else .
23 All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person .
24 Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit .
25 It had never worked and it would n't now .
26 Possessed by that hunger , it had still sensed that there was something different about the female .
27 In a statement yesterday , NUPE said it had recently learned that the hospital trust planned to borrow £300,000 from its capital programme to finance the development .
28 This time it had really disappeared and a party was despatched to procure a new length of pole while the remaining villagers continued the search .
29 It had gradually enlarged and began to leak some six weeks before his death and was heralded by the onset of headaches .
30 However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would .
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