Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him . |
| 2 | Although the Israeli delegation said that it was prepared to discuss issues raised by the Palestinians , the two sides remained deeply divided over the organization of the talks . |
| 3 | In a statement issued on July 19 the SOC Foreign Ministry announced that it " welcomed " the " constructive " US move . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | On Dec. 31 the Zambian Foreign Ministry confirmed that it was discussing the establishment of trade and diplomatic ties with South Africa . |
| 6 | When it was opened , British Rail argued that it was important because it would not be necessary to improve the lines around London . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A clear result showed that it was the Phoenician readers who were most vulnerable to the presence of irregular words . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend said that it should be abolished this year , or at least in 1992-93 . |
| 13 | Not only was there no capping of the excessive expenditure that Labour councils were bound to indulge in , but my right hon. Friend insisted that it should be introduced not as a phased tax but all in one year . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman said that it was happening elsewhere to his knowledge . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman conceded that it was an idea worth considering , whereas the Secretary of State mocked it from the outset . |
| 16 | And the old dog knew that it was empty , no use digging down or anything , she had gone do you see . |
| 17 | The car-hire firm considered that it was too early to tell . |
| 18 | And we now have the final symbolism of Ross Perot , the white knight set to storm Washington , who has in the not-so-distant past said that it might be necessary to suspend the constitution and cordon off black neighbourhoods and place them under martial law . |
| 19 | After the collapse of the communist regime in late 1989 , the new East German government announced that it would allow US , Israeli and other researchers access to state archives dealing with the Second World War and in particular with the extermination of Jews and other war crimes . |
| 20 | On Nov. 18 the German government said that it was recalling its ambassador as a protest at the " increasing brutality " aimed at the opposition movement . |
| 21 | Air France , which had agreed in mid-1990 to merge with its main French international rival UTA and the domestic airline Air Inter , faced a new challenge on March 3 , when the French government announced that it would redistribute 16 of the airline 's routes to its competitors , in an effort to reduce the airline 's 97 per cent share of the domestic aviation market . |
| 22 | The French government announced that it would take the strongest measures to ensure that Aoun met the conditions attached to his asylum , which included refraining from making public statements on political issues . |
| 23 | The Iraqi government announced that it would respond to " this aggression … in the appropriate manner at the appropriate time " . |
| 24 | Early last month , the New-York Historical Society announced that it would close its library and cease all other operations to concentrate its efforts on resolving the grave financial crisis that threatens America 's oldest historical society with extinction . |
| 25 | In evaluating this case the social worker thought that it was possible to negotiate the appropriate amount of respite care in good time , because social work involvement had included counselling and the situation had been thoroughly explored . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 28 | Advocates of the first-past-the-post system argued that it was the only way of delivering strong government , Mr Cook said . |
| 29 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 30 | Its Durkheimian origin meant that it suffered at the outset from the more general problems of Durkheim 's functionalist approach . |