Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 7 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 8 | World market : The global market for solar energy is worth about $500 million , two-thirds of it shared among many tiny private companies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 13 | There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | And it was penetrating — I ca n't tell you how penetrating — and wet ; it got into all the corners . |
| 18 | so those houses were all sandbagged , but it , it got into some , the problem was that the , the road closed sign kept blowing down in the wind , I tried to stand it up but it was oh so heavy , I got it up , but it , it immediately blew down again , and |
| 19 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It clung to all the wrong places . |
| 26 | It complied with that request in the time allowed . |
| 27 | There has , to date , been no readily available published accounts of the amounts received and disbursed by the various victim compensation boards , but it would be surprising if it amounted to many millions . |
| 28 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 29 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 30 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |