Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It agreed after a difficult session ( marked by objections from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union over terminology ) to recommend the dispatch of an EC-based mission to Yugoslavia to supervise the fragile ceasefire , and also to send a CSCE " good offices " mission to assist political dialogue . |
| 2 | It applied to a special form of law embodied as a matter of convenience in a single document . |
| 3 | There was a rival party in the field , the Ghana Congress party ( GCP ) , founded in 1952 by Dr Busia ; it included several of the erstwhile UGCC leaders , but despite some impressive names it operated from a narrow base . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The regionalist novel represented a kind of literary discovery of America , in that it revealed to an urban public the conditions of life in the remote , underdeveloped areas of the continent 's interior : the plains ; the jungle ; the Andes . |
| 6 | The numbers against it were still high ( 250 ) , but it passed with a respectable majority and was ready for promulgation . |
| 7 | A canal had been dug by French prisoners of war from what is now Dartmoor Prison , and it passed through a 2-mile-long tunnel to the hillside above the quay . |
| 8 | The real issue with the voters was de Gaulle himself , and the General reinforced that perception by warning that he would resign if the proposed change was rejected or even if it passed by a slim majority . |
| 9 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 10 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 11 | It amounted to a general statement of belief in socialist realism rather than a systematic attempt to offer a coherent theory relevant to the French context . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 14 | She was a little disappointed in its capacity in relation to its size , for it cheated as a false-bottomed suitcase cheats . |
| 15 | Once the bill of lading became an abstract document , it conveyed to a good faith holder what became known as a ‘ mercantile ’ title to the goods — the lawful holder of the bill of lading acquired a better right to the possession of the goods than his transferor . |
| 16 | He shook his head , his hair catching the light so that it gleamed with a blue fire . |
| 17 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 18 | It became like a social visit . |
| 19 | A middle scale version of Rodin 's ‘ La Defense ( The Call to Arms ) ’ ( lot 16 , est. $200,000–300,000 ) attracted the sale 's highest bid of $310,000 ( £181,000 ) when it sold to an American institution , while Utrillo 's pretty winter scene , ‘ Rue à Poissy ’ ( lot 131 , est. $60,000–80,000 ) was the sale 's most expensive painting , bought by an American dealer for $100,000 ( £58,000 ) . |
| 20 | A splashy Belle-epoque tableau literally bursting at the edges with tumbling patrons leaping from the stage , frantic dancers , several pairs of identical twins and top-hatted gentlemen consorting with masked beauties , it was most entertaining decoration , and seemed reasonably estimated at $100–150,000 , though it sold to an American collector ( widely believed to be Iris and Gerald Cantor ) for a stunning $650,000 ( £373,500 ) . |
| 21 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 22 | She was wearing a plaid dressing-gown that her Dad had left behind : it smelled like an old dog and was as scratchy and heavy as wearing a carpet . |
| 23 | It led across a sinister patch of ground known as the Smiling Meadow , which looked just like a pleasant grassy meadow of brilliant green , but which was actually a treacherous tract of shifting marsh , partly waterlogged and with only a single narrow path of firm ground across it . |
| 24 | It led into a tiny vestibule with doors on all three sides . |
| 25 | A door at the far end was a little ajar , showing that it led to a white-tiled wash-room . |
| 26 | It led to a major fracas , in which some tried to get him ‘ unelected ’ , but failed . |
| 27 | It led to a vast improvement for everybody in Baldersdale because it provided a regular income . |
| 28 | This was neither the basic approach of Raistrick to fungal metabolism , nor quite the same concept as that of antibiosis , but it led to a similar outcome , the possible discovery of a microbial agent which could destroy the microbes that caused disease . |
| 29 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 30 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |