Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] it [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 2 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 3 | Equally the press , almost as a whole , had decided that it liked the girl . |
| 4 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 5 | The Council issued a statement on 13 September , correcting some points in the press reports , emphasizing that the visiting party had indicated that it believed the Polytechnic had ‘ the potential to rectify the grave situation in which it finds itself , and stressing that the visiting party had not suggested that courses as currently taught were below an acceptable standard . |
| 6 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
| 7 | Right-wing parties for their part had complained that it entailed the abandonment of the country 's constitutional claim to all territory within the German borders of 1938 , including lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers which were now in Poland or the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | After Mr Runciman had complained that it appeared the firm was acting on privileged information , Mr Malcolm had instructed his salesmen not to initiate any further sales . |