Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . ) |
| 2 | In Plowman 's case it was argued that on its true construction the restrictive covenant was too wide as it applied to goods of all kinds and would prevent canvassing by the employee in articles of trade of any kind . |
| 3 | Caird is sending shareholders an external environmental audit which it commissioned from consultants Mott MacDonald . |
| 4 | Ferranti this week received the report it commissioned from accountants Coopers & Lybrand on the alleged fraud . |
| 5 | In the case of Descartes , it eventuated in laws of motion , one of which resembles the principle of linear inertia that was so basic to Newton 's analysis of the relationship between force , mass , and acceleration . |
| 6 | The BA has organised a meeting of trade representatives to look at the wording of the Legalities of Price Marking documentation to ensure that the advice it passed to members in September 1989 , which was approved by trading standards officers at that time , still covers all eventualities . |
| 7 | It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses . |
| 8 | It swirled among pots that tingled and glimmered in a dance of fly-ash . |
| 9 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 10 | Furthermore it became against regulations to " unramm " a charge of powder which had mis-fired . |
| 11 | It smelled of horses . |
| 12 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 13 | It led to employers spending time in filling up forms and trying to ensure that every conceivable expense was lumped together under the heading of training instead of concentrating on the training itself . |
| 14 | If , however , it were marketed as a child 's toy or the blade were such that when used to peel potatoes it disintegrated into splinters , then it would not be as safe as people generally were entitled to expect . |
| 15 | We take chain mail very much for granted , seeing it depicted in paintings of the time , or in recent cinematic extravaganzas . |
| 16 | The concern for independence shown by the court in this case is an interesting development , but it arose in circumstances where the court has a discretion to exercise statutory powers . |
| 17 | It arose from observations of old people who appeared to welcome and initiate increasing isolation as a release from the problems , pressures and difficulties of life . |
| 18 | ( One theory is that it arose from scribes ' attempts to make the word more legible . |
| 19 | It provided for cuts in support prices to reduce overproduction , and payment of compensation directly to farmers , on condition that all but the smallest farmers " set aside " 15 per cent of their land from production . |
| 20 | On the other hand , however , Mr De Haan said the company had to put up with what it regarded as disadvantages of being publicly quoted . |
| 21 | Dark-feathered and wild , it dwelt in woods , surviving on a diet of maize , fruit and grass . |
| 22 | ‘ It keeps it stopped on hills and things ! |
| 23 | The general secretary of the EPRLF , K. Padmanabha , was also reported to have left Sri Lanka , along with other key officials , and to have gone to India , where thousands of EPRLF supporters were seeking refuge in fear of persecution by the LTTE as it moved into areas vacated by Indian troops . |
| 24 | In the autumn It moved to offices in Endell Street , still in Covent Garden . |
| 25 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 26 | They pushed the body off the cliff , but it caught in bushes . |
| 27 | In imitative play he might assume a role in imitation of one with which he is familiar and might handle equipment as he has seen it used by others . |
| 28 | A third is that there is among scientists a kind of general scepticism of talk of causation , and in particular a suspicion of general conceptions of it used by philosophers . |
| 29 | The Court found that the government could legitimately return assets which were now in state ownership ; however , it objected to proposals to accompany the return of confiscated lands with payment of only partial compensation to present private owners ( principally farm co-operatives ) . |
| 30 | As he imposed his geometrical grid of drainage ditches across the newly filled-in estuary of the Traeth , it occurred to Madocks for a brief , but anxious , moment that the whole project resembled ‘ Dutch gardening ’ ; but in no time the poet Shelley arrived to help him with his endeavours , declaiming on the ‘ poetry of engineering ’ . |