Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) Hereditary peers The present House of Lords is the product of the union legislation of 1800 and the House which it replaced was created by the union legislation of 1706 . |
| 2 | The Royal College of Physicians attacked Mrs Bottomley 's failure to reach firm decisions on the four teaching hospitals under threat , which it said were left in limbo . |
| 3 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 4 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 5 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 6 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 7 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 8 | In December 1920 , during a US Senate Sub-Committee hearing in Washington , one of the cable companies publicly revealed the duress under which it had been placed by the British Government . |
| 9 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 10 | In his view , the letter should be used to show that the Board 's policy in the one county in which it had been implemented for at least two years was a misconceived , divisive one . |
| 11 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 12 | Entitled ‘ Towards a humane , democratic socialism ’ , the Declaration insisted , as Gorbachev had done , that the origins of Soviet difficulties were to be found , not in any deficiency of the socialist idea itself , but in the deformations to which it had been subjected in the past . |
| 13 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 14 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 15 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 16 | The Taiwanese Defence Ministry said on April 24 that it would continue its loudspeaker broadcasts to the mainland , which it claimed were aimed at " keeping our mainland compatriots informed of free world developments " . |
| 17 | Later that day , when she asked him what it had been used for , he confessed : ‘ Sorry , Mum , I got it wrong . |
| 18 | For example , if the government alleges that what it did was done in the interests of national security and the court accepts this , the aggrieved party 's action will simply be dismissed . |