Example sentences of "it [vb past] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new subject of International Relations must find the best ways of making leaders aware of the dysfunctional nature of war , or , if it failed in this , appeal directly to the populations concerned . |
| 2 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 3 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 4 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
| 5 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if the income as it arose in each of the five years was paid out to Mr X that would have no tax consequences : he could not be assessed under TA 1988 , s739 as he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 9 | It referred in that connection to paragraph 13 of the judgment in the Pesca Valentia case . |
| 10 | It referred in that connection to article 8 of the Convention of 1986 . |
| 11 | It referred in that connection to Ordre des Avocats au Barreau de Paris v. Klopp ( Case 107/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 2971 and Commission of the European Communities v. Belgium . |
| 12 | It also stressed that the quotas constituted a derogation from the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , and it referred in that connection to the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 . |
| 13 | The fact that he wore a hat with a daffodil in it helped in this respect , he felt . |
| 14 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 15 | There were numerous dirt tracks leading off from this road , but she did n't recall seeing it parked in any of them as she passed . |
| 16 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 17 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 18 | It 's rather nice to think that it happened in that way , that it was done overnight . |
| 19 | It happened in many parts of Africa and Asia , particularly in the early days of railways . |
| 20 | It happened in this way . |
| 21 | It happened in this manner . |
| 22 | it 's a big , in this town it 's kept quiet , it happened on Monday night of course there 's gon na be a bloody big shake up in Lancashire police , it happened in this town there er , er , er a robbery at a bungalow where an old lady were |
| 23 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 24 | In such situations its decision should only be overturned for bias when it acted in such a way prior to its decision that it could not properly have exercised its discretion , taking due account of its interest in the proceedings . |
| 25 | The Black & Decker WM750 Workmate has a recommended retail price of £82.95 , but you 'll find it discounted in some stores . |
| 26 | We will find it echoed in several places in chapter 22 . |
| 27 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 28 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 29 | We have tended to speak as if it existed in some obvious and consistent way in higher education , but as some of the above quotations pointed out , the undergraduate curriculum may be influenced by other manifestations of organized knowledge , in particular research and professional practice . |
| 30 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |