Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 2 | I am not here to defend British Rail 's management decisions — I am usually better at condemning them — but during the passage of the legislation to which my hon. Friend referred earlier , British Rail stated that it had picked the least safe of the 100 crossings to which I have referred . |
| 3 | One investigation aimed at characterisation of this response showed that it differs in the various colonic segments , with the proximal ones displaying brisk and less sustained contractile activity than the distal ones . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the nonresonant nature of the nonlinearity in this experiment meant that it had to compete with other nonlinear processes . |
| 5 | The Inland Revenue said that it did not have enough workers to carry out the revaluation in England and Wales , so from that date there were no revaluations of property . |
| 6 | Further investigation showed that it had a large number of actions : so large that the trade name Largactil was coined . |
| 7 | as if to confirm her pedestrian turn of mind , Miss Logan at this point revealed that it had been a matter of curiosity to her since childhood how the Ark had succeeded in resting upon the top of a mountain . |
| 8 | Six countries bordering the Black Sea — Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey and the Ukraine — have agreed on a three year programme to tackle pollution of its waters , after an international scientific group warned that it faced ecological death unless urgent measures were taken . |
| 9 | One lawyer at the French court observed that it had ‘ never been seen or known for the kingdom of France to be subjected to the government of the king of England ’ . |
| 10 | The Malaysian government this month announced that it has dropped a scheme to flood the country 's oldest and largest national park , Taman Negara by damming the Tembeling river . |
| 11 | Airlift Book Company this week announced that it had been appointed exclusive UK distributor for Shambhala Publications , taking over from Rider Books ( part of Random House ) on 1st April . |
| 12 | But another participant argued that it did n't really matter whether it was additional money or not . |
| 13 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 14 | Its Durkheimian origin meant that it suffered at the outset from the more general problems of Durkheim 's functionalist approach . |
| 15 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 16 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 17 | The Divisional Court held that it had jurisdiction to review the visitor 's decision and that the visitor 's decision was wrong in law . |
| 18 | However , the Divisional Court held that it amounted to a common law contempt in that the Sun had , in spite of its editor 's protestations to the contrary , intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |
| 19 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 20 | On June 18 the military-led government announced that it had pre-empted a coup attempt led by the Minister of Public Works and Transport , Col. Abbas Koty . |
| 21 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 22 | American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history . |
| 23 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 24 | The Lithuanian government said that it believed the group to be a " protective cloak for OMON or more likely the KGB " . |
| 25 | It is not surprising , therefore , that when the National Trust announced that it had recruited its 2 millionth member last autumn , rejoicing was not unmixed with the occasional grumble that the Trust had become too big ; in other words there was a presumption by some that such a large membership must inevitably be accompanied by the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in the organisation itself . |
| 26 | Despite various indications that Eva was a " special person " from fairly early on , the rough and tumble of a large family ensured that it did n't turn her head . |
| 27 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ she said grimly , only too aware that her white face showed that it mattered only too much . |
| 28 | On Nov. 13 the Egyptian Interior Ministry said that it had no evidence to suggest that the guerrillas had entered Israel through Egyptian territory . |
| 29 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 30 | Closer examination showed that it had been cut out — a row of stitch-holes could still be seen , and in two places there were scraps of the thread that had formed the stitches . |