Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 2 | On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben . |
| 3 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 4 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 5 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 6 | As will be shown in this chapter , retirement was viewed ambiguously by working people who well realized that it distributes a variety of rewards and penalties , offering , for a minority , a period of welcome leisure in relative comfort , and , for the majority , a sharp drop in living standards with enforced idleness . |
| 7 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 8 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ . |
| 9 | Resisters argued that it opened the way for a return to prewar politics . |
| 10 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 11 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 12 | And nobody noticed that it said A colon and not C colon . |
| 13 | Meh'Lindi reached into the trunk and lifted out a small tentacle , which squirmed as it left the stasis-field . |
| 14 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 15 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 16 | This was rejected by the court which simply stated that it had no power to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament . |
| 17 | It declared that it understood the scope of the Letters of Request which it would not execute as including Letters of Request which require a person |
| 18 | The committee claimed that it had the support of 90 per cent of the area 's population and noted that representatives of the IDA , IIRS , AFF , Raybestos and the trade unions did not attend , despite being invited . |
| 19 | The Board claimed that it owned the land by virtue of a private Act of Parliament , the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 20 | These results showed that it made no difference to RISC whether register variables ( hints that variables will be used frequently and should be kept in a register ) were declared or not . |
| 21 | His observational sample of prisoner interviews , although small , had found the PACE codes of practice were followed to the letter and he argued this showed that it required the sanction of the law to effect changes in interview and interrogation techniques . |
| 22 | Many Bank Assistant members who saw the Association 's Submission to the Labour Court commented that it contained a case which was irresistible . |
| 23 | We hid but it made no difference , they still found us . |
| 24 | Ongoing regulation of RIEs is now very low key , to the point where , when a major trading scandal broke on the London Commodities Exchange ( then known as " London Fox , in 1991 , SIB indicated that it had no responsibility for the way the exchange operated . |
| 25 | The United States Secretary of State James Baker had previously announced that the Japanese contribution had been offered without precondition and would be used for military purposes , but within hours of Kaifu 's pledge the US State Department indicated that it had no objection to such a restriction . |
| 26 | The Government 's desire to assist charities is seen in concessions to individuals , such as Gift Aid , payroll giving and covenants , but the Chairman remarked that it makes no sense if the Institution has to hand the money back , and more through Value Added Tax . |
| 27 | Now I sat beside her and watched as the cloth was folded and refolded until it became a nubin . |
| 28 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 29 | Tolby flinched as it touched the skin . |
| 30 | Moves to have her elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902 were squashed when the council , on legal advice , decided that it had no power to elect a married woman . |