Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The French Ministry of Defence announced that it had exploded a 35-kiloton nuclear device on Mururoa Atoll on July 5 , 1990 , the fourth such test since June 1989 .
2 The Ministry of Defence commented that it welcomed the US announcement as an attempt to elicit a response from areas where there was a risk of nuclear proliferation .
3 While media seemed to have little influence on driving behaviour , both groups of drivers felt that it showed cars in an unrealistic light — only seven percent thought otherwise .
4 One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching .
5 When , in this situation , the person defamed sought to issue a writ , and the Member concerned asked the House of Commons to treat the matter as a breach of privilege , the Committee of Privileges recommended that it do so but the House , by a small majority , rejected this recommendation .
6 Such were the quantities of alchohol consumed that it seemed only a couple more years before London saw its first designer louts and designer riots .
7 The strength and quality of Guinness ensured that it survived the rigours of long sea voyages , whereas other beers went under .
8 The immensity and perfection of God required that it had been done .
9 Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats .
10 The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " .
11 Reference to the actual grant of arms showed that it had a very strange limitations clause , for the arms were assigned to Thomas Magnall and his offspring and ‘ any such of the Descendants of his Father who shall write their Names Magnall and by no Others ’ !
12 However , the 1989 AMERG survey asked specifically whether the ending of the mandatory scale had led to reductions of fees charged for individual projects and over 68 per cent of respondents stated that it had .
13 As early as 1488–89 , an Act dealing with the Isle of Wight declared that it had been made desolate by being turned into pasture , and that it could not long be defended from the King 's enemies .
14 In a later phase in the same litigation , the Court of Appeal held that it had jurisdiction in appropriate cases to order the transfer of assets subject to a Mareva injunction from one foreign country to another , enforcement considerations being especially relevant .
15 On appeal the Court of Appeal held that it had no jurisdiction under section 13(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Ordinanceto hear the appeal since the proceedings before the High Court judge were criminal and not in any civil cause or matter .
16 The majority of the Court of Appeal held that it had jurisdiction to quash the judge 's order .
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