Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] " 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 | It was announced on Sept. 12 , 1989 , that the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC , had ended a long-running dispute when it agreed with various Indian groups that skeletal remains would be returned where evidence linked them to specific tribes . |
| 3 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 4 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 5 | Although the NUR still has some members among drivers , it agreed in 1983 that it would stop recruiting them . |
| 6 | Resentment and resistance followed , notably in the Pilgrimage of Grace ; and although the Crown was able to ride that storm , it agreed in 1540 partially to replace the Statute of Uses with a milder act , the Statute of Wills , which in effect allowed landowners to avoid feudal incidents on two-thirds of their lands . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The new subject of International Relations must find the best ways of making leaders aware of the dysfunctional nature of war , or , if it failed in this , appeal directly to the populations concerned . |
| 10 | It failed in particular to include safeguards against the reinstatement of the death penalty , which was abolished in Macao in the 19th century . |
| 11 | I did n't think it applied to technical consultants . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 14 | Now at that point , when she received the letter and read the policy , erm we could have given her a better cover if it applied to that particular vehicle . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Courts in country B ( the country of shipment ) would not award the amount stipulated in the per package limitation of country A ( the importing country ) even though A 's implementing statute stated that it applied to inward as well as to outward bound shipments . |
| 17 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 18 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 19 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It operated in 69 countries worldwide . |
| 23 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 24 | Much of the energy at these wavelengths is absorbed by the atmosphere , which means that a remote sensing instrument such as the MSS or TM would , if it operated in one of these bands , be unable to see through the atmosphere and consequently would be unable to obtain any information about the surface of the Earth . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | World market : The global market for solar energy is worth about $500 million , two-thirds of it shared among many tiny private companies . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 30 | It succeeded at first , but Party Politics ' breathing was still impaired and a second , much more difficult ‘ tie-back ’ operation had to be attempted . |