Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time it ruled that in the case of Pontevedra in north-western Spain , where eight seats were at issue as the result of apparent polling irregularities , elections would have to be repeated in about 30 polling areas . |
| 2 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 3 | I have heard it objected that in every book of hers there is a smell of onions , and that this is intended to show observation . |
| 4 | It found that in the 3 years since the first survey , crime had moved from third place to the top of people ‘ s list of problems affecting their neighbourhood . |
| 5 | Indeed the lasting effect of this period is seen better in the political pressure groups — the Gay and Women 's Liberation movements — which it spawned than in the actual pop music of the time . |
| 6 | It seemed that in no time she was forced indoors by huge raindrops that appeared to have come from nowhere . |
| 7 | It seemed that in a school where he was in such a minority , his language and ethnicity had been defined as particular problems requiring the rather Draconian solution of Statementing . |
| 8 | It seemed that in the days following the Earl 's death , his children displayed a hardness that even surprised me . |
| 9 | We were in line with the Craven fault it seemed and in an electric storm the tower and all its domestic equipment spat and sizzled like a jumping cracker . |
| 10 | It commented that in the latter " there is lacking a clear legal procedure for the justification and terms for the use of the armed forces of the USSR inside the country when no state of emergency has been declared " . |
| 11 | It emerged that in the magistrates ' courts the distribution of sentences did not differ greatly between Blacks and Whites , and this was also the case in the Crown Court . |
| 12 | No-one knows exactly what Daniel Dubroca and Jean Trillo told the Bègles trio , but it appeared that in the aftermath of the American tour Simon and his pals lost their ‘ flavour of the month ’ tag . |
| 13 | It said that in the run-up to an election , it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties . |
| 14 | It concluded that in the light of the great events of the war , Party affairs had necessarily been forced into the background , and divided reactions into three groups . |