Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 2 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 3 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 4 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 5 | On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben . |
| 6 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 7 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 8 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 9 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 10 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 11 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 12 | As well as candles , the company provided stoves and lanterns for troops in the Crimean war , Rangoon oil for lubricating rifles , and the Motorine oil which Rolls-Royce used when it won the Isle of Man TT race in 1906 . |
| 13 | As will be shown in this chapter , retirement was viewed ambiguously by working people who well realized that it distributes a variety of rewards and penalties , offering , for a minority , a period of welcome leisure in relative comfort , and , for the majority , a sharp drop in living standards with enforced idleness . |
| 14 | When he was shown the Demoiselles d'Avignon , Braque appears at first to have been bewildered by it , though he realized that it marked an important new departure . |
| 15 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 16 | Reagan 's testimony was released on Feb. 22 after the Justice Department ruled that it contained no classified information . |
| 17 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ . |
| 18 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 19 | Resisters argued that it opened the way for a return to prewar politics . |
| 20 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 21 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 22 | It added that it rejected the Cairo " fait accompli " and would maintain its right " to safeguard this institution and its employees from loss " . |
| 23 | At first he thought that he had discovered a new particle , but then an astrophysicist friend of one of Alvarez 's colleagues recognised that it had the characteristics of proton-deuteron fusion — pd fusion-catalysed by a muon . |
| 24 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 25 | Commentators noted that it echoed the earlier document in its advocacy of social justice linked with the free operation of the market . |
| 26 | Next morning , the pair took the air of Montrose ; they saw the church , since replaced with another ; the town hall had ‘ a handsome fabrick with a portico ’ , wrote Johnson ( it still has ) , while Boswell noted that it had a ‘ good dancing-room , and other rooms for tea-drinking ’ . |
| 27 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 28 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 29 | And nobody noticed that it said A colon and not C colon . |
| 30 | With that warning in mind , the outcome for Japan in the 1980s is nevertheless surprising : its only clear advantage in the cost of equity capital came while it had a wild , speculative market in shares , land and warrants in 1987–89 . |