Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its use for ornaments meant that it was subject to fairly rapid changes of fashion . |
| 2 | Firstly , Plan for Action assumed that it would be necessary to start with about 11% more career registrars than were needed to fill the expected consultant posts , whereas JPAC routinely accepts advice from specialty staffing representatives to calculate up to 50% more posts ( for example , in general medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology ) . |
| 3 | The investigation of firing showed that it certainly did n't help healing , causing the horse considerable distress for no good reason . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the Financial Times ’ words of 10 March , ‘ Britain 's leading banks cut their base lending rates yesterday … after Bank of England signalled that it was ready to see borrowing costs fall … ’ ( our italics ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For years the Department of Transport argued that it was not its role to promote cycling , but recently the men from the ministry seem to have had a change of heart . |
| 13 | Interest was aroused when the University of Cambridge declared that it was prepared , if the necessary funds could be made available , to consider the establishment of an Institute of Criminology . |
| 14 | The strength and quality of Guinness ensured that it survived the rigours of long sea voyages , whereas other beers went under . |
| 15 | The immensity and perfection of God required that it had been done . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A group of MPs protested that it was ‘ totally unacceptable ’ for the Second World War to be omitted from the national curriculum for 7 to 14-year-olds . |
| 18 | A lot of people thought that it was n't commercial , but if you start pandering to that sort of stuff … ’ |
| 19 | A lot of people thought that it was n't commercial , but if you start pandering to that sort of stuff … ’ |
| 20 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 21 | The House of Lords disagreed and it is now the law that it may be enough for the transaction to contain an element of bounty if it is of the kind conferred by the exercise of a special power of appointment . |
| 22 | The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " . |
| 23 | ONCE UPON a time , the government of Norway promised that it would not only protect the wolf as an endangered species , but even maintain a breeding population of the beast . |
| 24 | 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 ’ ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , the chairman of governors argued that it should be put before governors in light of the possible need to fight staff cuts in the school . |
| 27 | Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK . |
| 28 | On Sept. 13 , 1991 , the Bank of France announced that it was returning to the Baltic states between two and three tonnes of gold which had been deposited in 1932-36 . |
| 29 | The Ministry of Health insisted that it was not the business of maternity centres to offer family-planning advice , and the new Labour government in 1924 specifically forbade welfare centres from disseminating it . |
| 30 | 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 . |