Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Equally the press , almost as a whole , had decided that it liked the girl . |
| 4 | The endorsee-buyer 's message was also tested and accepted if it contained the portion of the original seller 's test key . |
| 5 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |
| 6 | When the housing market collapsed , it appears that this property was affected because it became the subject of a forced sale . |
| 7 | Where the lawn narrowed as it skirted the side of the elegant house , it was traversed by a high lattice fence complete with ornate archway . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the same century estufas ( heated chambers ) came into use to reproduce the improvements in the wine which had been noted when it crossed the equator in the holds of ships , the changes being caused by the heat and not by the motion of the ship . |
| 9 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 10 | The Torit faction also declared that it accepted the application of the Islamic sharia legal code in the north of the country , to the exclusion of the south . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Labour Party also announced that it found the peace formula " totally acceptable " . |
| 13 | Joyce Quin ( Labour , Gateshead East ) said her party favoured a Minister for Women , Suzanne Fletcher ( LibDem , Stockton North ) was opposed because it marginalised the issue and Brenda Thompson , a Tory on Cleveland County Council , said the appointment would be patronising . |
| 14 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 15 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | India , however , immediately reaffirmed that it supported the unity of Sri Lanka . |
| 18 | and then after that you 've got all the water left and it cleaned the sink as you as the pump pumped it out , you could go quickly with a brush round the sink and suds cleaned all the sink for you , or you could with your pail . |
| 19 | Like the British he was fascinated by the thought of obedience willingly given ; hence his belief that satyagraha worked because it changed the opponent 's mind about the issue at stake . |
| 20 | Factors such as the parasitic reliance on the stage and the book , the lack of attention given to screenwriting , the lack of flexibility in studio-based production and , at Stoll , a studio floor so constructed that it accommodated the noise and bustle of five films at the same time , had a deadening effect on anyone who came into the industry with new ideas or fresh visions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Under the empire , in large towns , the shops were cleared and it became the site for more magnificent buildings devoted to the administration of justice , bureaucracy and commerce , as well as for worship . |
| 24 | It was still hard to believe that the pod was not going to be destroyed before it reached the ground . |
| 25 | The Regional Council 's position as regards the implications of the appeal proposal on education were clearly recorded when it advised the District Council of its views on the appeal application ( ref LRC Written Submission para 6 a ( iii ) . |
| 26 | The prosperity which all these minor towns reveal occasionally has a local explanation : Todi 's neighbour , Assisi , was greatly enhanced when it became the burial place of St Francis and a centre of pilgrimage . |
| 27 | It was stoned as it reached the Bogside ; Catholics clashed with the RUC ; and the Bogside Defence Association erected barricades . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | In the case of Gothic architecture , the pointed arch was evolved because it became the key to constructing buildings which were then desirable . |
| 30 | Race organiser Dennis Gill said Vicki 's fund was chosen because it touched the heart of the organisers . |