Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 2 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 3 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 4 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 5 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 6 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 7 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 8 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 9 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 10 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 11 | Perhaps we , I mean , then British Section said to us on this erm and I 'd s , already said I think er by the time it got to this stage of conversation that we were without a prisoner at the moment , but , but awaiting one , and he said well , that would ex , that would explain it because er , until we initiate it , British Section initiates it you wo n't get another prisoner , they 're waiting for conformation from R E S |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 14 | Said to have been illuminated in Tours by the court painter Jean Bourdichon , it passed through several libraries before being sold at Sotheby 's Sir Thomas Phillipps sale in 1946 for £900 ( $1,400 ) . |
| 15 | It passed through several hands between its capture by Maj von Keller on 18 June 1815 and its acquisition by Madame Tussaud 's in 1842 . |
| 16 | The property in Halling then came into the family of Melford , later it was sold to the family of Raynwell , who held it until the reign of Henry VII , when it passed through several hands among them , Whornes and Levesons , Barber , Golding , Wood and then to W. Baker . |
| 17 | It complied with that request in the time allowed . |
| 18 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 21 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 22 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |
| 23 | Miss Harder even refused the offer of financial assistance , in case it led to another child losing his chance of coming to Britain . |
| 24 | ‘ It led to some confusion in the department and mistakes may have been made . |
| 25 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 26 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
| 27 | We can not as readers see this as a fault , since it made for such richness of scene and mood , though Marryat seems to have felt it so . |
| 28 | It met with some success , and on 19 June 1890 the Kensington Burial Board discussed the possibility of the Guardians of the Poor using such wicker baskets for pauper burials , but the Board of Guardians declined owing to their cost . |
| 29 | But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement . |
| 30 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |