Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified the Council 's more conservative wing for , despite all protestations that it was complementary to and not contradictory of Vatican I 's teaching on papal primacy , it did inevitably suggest a remarkably different overall understanding of how the Church should be governed . |
| 2 | It agreed a new report which recorded widespread evidence that the world 's temperature was increasing . |
| 3 | Thoth interrupted his stream of self-justification with the sentiment that it agreed the eigen state theory was possible and then humorously pointed out that simply because Ewan had thought of it , it was infinitely more possible . |
| 4 | It applied the methods of Kent campus to imaginary grievances in a divided , or divisible , community in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | It operated a large tramway system in North-West London , with over three hundred cars . |
| 6 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 7 | The one of the Dallachy Strike Wing ( FP November , p29 ) has been less publicised than its counterpart at Banff to the south , perhaps because it operated the Beaufighter rather than the more glamorous Mosquito . |
| 8 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 9 | Commodore International Ltd says it repaid a loan of $13m to the Prudential Insurance Co of America rather than accept the terms that were proposed . |
| 10 | To retain its hegemonic dominance it criminalised the inner city uprisings of disenchanted youth , marginalised the youth of the black communities and removed trade-union struggles from the field of civil law to the arena of public disorder . |
| 11 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 12 | It doubled the number of passengers it carries to 1.65m . |
| 13 | Someone said it owned the airline and was the government . |
| 14 | Atari is now Nintendo 's arch-rival , but 10 years ago , it owned the video games market . |
| 15 | In 1980 , mining operations threatened the fabric of the house and British Coal , calculating it would be cheaper to cope with subsidence problems if it owned the house itself , acquired the property . |
| 16 | The Board claimed that it owned the land by virtue of a private Act of Parliament , the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 17 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 18 | Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her , but then as he watched he became slightly concerned , because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic , and then jerky until her head was nodding , her legs shooting out in a frenzy , her arms twitching , and she fell , uttering a loud cry , which was so strong and unreal , that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening . |
| 19 | It engendered a physical response . |
| 20 | But Milosh reversed his lance and flung it so hard that it pinned the Venetian champion to the gate of the city ; he struck off the champion 's head and threw it in Koulash 's nosebag . |
| 21 | Even the power of the storm , with which it shared a kinship also , could not assuage the hunger . |
| 22 | In practice this was done by a compromise , the thin skin being stiffened by attaching to it spars and stringers , with which it shared the load , the whole rather elaborate surface forming a shell stiff in bending and therefore unlikely to buckle . |
| 23 | It shared the view of the Policy Advisory Committee that ‘ the primary aim of the law against incest is the protection of the young and vulnerable against sexual exploitation within the family and rejected the idea that eugenics was the law 's principal justification . |
| 24 | It shared the fate with many others of its kind , and was one of the suppressed chantries in the reign of Edward VI and the lands and revenues with which it was endowed coming to the crown were , in the first year of Queen Mary , let to the family of Levesons of Whornes Place . |
| 25 | It shared the best single award with Bhangra Muffin |
| 26 | He used to say it polluted the environment . |
| 27 | The Institute indicated when it commissioned the report that it would make every effort to adopt its proposals wherever possible , and has already agreed on action in a number of areas . |
| 28 | The cat turned and looked at them , and it pawed the air . |
| 29 | The Anatomy Act did not end the odious traffic in corpses , though it checked the more extravagant crimes of body-snatchers , such as the murders committed in Edinburgh in 1828 by Burke and Hare , and in London three years later by Bishop and Williams . |
| 30 | It checked the animal , then said to the robot , ‘ Make it warm . ’ |