Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 2 | As it tumbled through the air it stretched out its arms . |
| 3 | The dog landed awkwardly on its hindlegs , losing its balance , and he looked away sharply as it tumbled under the wheels . |
| 4 | It tumbled against the German mark — ending perilously close to its critical floor in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 5 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 6 | It agreed with the United States that Resolutions 242 and 338 were the benchmarks for a peaceful solution , but sharply disagreed over their interpretation . |
| 7 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 8 | It agreed with the clock . |
| 9 | However , it agreed to a demand that Gdlyan and Ivanov be dismissed from working in the Procuracy , and in a resolution it warned them that their parliamentary immunity from prosecution could yet be withdrawn if they persisted in making " groundless " statements attacking the country 's leaders . |
| 10 | On the latter basis , it agreed to the LRT acquisition of two lines covering several miles at Croydon , so acquiring a link between two stations on differing London lines — Wimbledon and West Croydon . |
| 11 | On 3 March 1919 he presented a paper to a conference of management committees of London societies , on the basis of which it agreed to the principles of amalgamation ( Barnes nd , 1940 ) . |
| 12 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 13 | It agreed after a difficult session ( marked by objections from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union over terminology ) to recommend the dispatch of an EC-based mission to Yugoslavia to supervise the fragile ceasefire , and also to send a CSCE " good offices " mission to assist political dialogue . |
| 14 | If you have any spare cash , use it to invest in a tapwater prefilter , such as the Nitragon and increase your water changes to 15% every fortnight . |
| 15 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 16 | Once it agrees to the other two bits of the resolution , the sanctions committee ( which has overseen the embargo since August ) would lift the export ban . |
| 17 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 18 | Instead it agrees with the Government 's view , expressed in its document ‘ Sensible Drinking ’ , that these could penalise the moderate drinker , while problem drinkers would either continue drinking to excess and deprive their families of essentials or switch to cheaper or illicit drinks . |
| 19 | This collection is a sampler only — there are no more than six poems from each poet — but it testifies to the way in which poetry can — and does — survive in the most unpropitious circumstances . |
| 20 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 21 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 22 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 23 | The Police Federation has attacked the initiative , calling it crimefighting on the cheap . |
| 24 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 25 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 26 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 27 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 28 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the Church could not preserve men 's minds from modern heresy ; it failed in the campaign to exclude ‘ dangerous ’ books nor could it prevent the influence of contacts established by Aranda and others with the French intellectuals . |
| 30 | It failed from the start to live up to expectations in terms of sales abroad . |