Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She released her hair from its restraining band ; it tumbled in heavy red-gold waves past her shoulder-blades , and she shampooed it with her favourite herbal shampoo . |
| 2 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 3 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows ( what a mouthful ! ) is a very quick performer , it zoomed through 157 Megabytes of files on our Victor V486M 's 200 Mb hard disk in just 47 seconds ! |
| 4 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 5 | I did n't think it applied to technical consultants . |
| 6 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 10 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 11 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 12 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 13 | It operated in 69 countries worldwide . |
| 14 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 15 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
| 16 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 17 | Curious to think it overlapped with young realists like Amis , Iris Murdoch and John Wain ; still more curious to think that Wain was a pupil of Lewis and a junior member of Thursday evening meetings in his Oxford college . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Perhaps , too , the darker minds , full of rancour and disharmony , anger , lust , egotism , greed and intense attachment to the things of this world , takes the hell it experienced in physical life into its own world of mental hell when deprived of the physical form . |
| 26 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 27 | Somehow , after that , they succeeded in restoring a semblance of what counted as normality in their relationship to the weekend , and it passed without further conflict . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |