Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 2 | Mahwah , New Jersey-based Israeli company Defense Software & Systems Inc says it agreed with Israel Corp Ltd for a joint venture to be incorporated in the US to hold an 80.1% interest in Tower Semiconductor Ltd , the name chosen for the company being formed to own and operate National Semiconductor Corp 's existing facility in Migdal Haemek , Israel , running it as an independent semiconductor business . |
| 3 | Last week it agreed in principle that Switzerland could take part in projects where its participation would strengthen the research effort . |
| 4 | At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed . |
| 5 | Despite the many problems which still faced the proposal to introduce an EC-wide company charter , the Commission defused some of the more acrimonious disputes surrounding company taxation , when it agreed in April 1990 to drop plans for an EC-wide system of personal and corporation tax , in favour of a policy of co-ordinating the various existing systems . |
| 6 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 10 | However , in 1965 it was given to the National Tramway Museum to care for , and it operated at Crich in the Derbyshire hills from 1965–1971 , when 59 was withdrawn as needing extensive overhaul . |
| 11 | In summary , his view that the State was the instrument through which the dialectic operated was evidently right ; and Marx 's view that it operated through class warfare as evidently wrong . |
| 12 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 13 | The share of Africa and Asia then plummeted to less than 2 per cent by 1815 , although it doubled in value . |
| 14 | Half of this increase occurred in America , where the farmed area trebled in this period ( it quintupled in Australia and grew two-and-a-half times in Canada ) . |
| 15 | On 1 December , the IDA applied for permission for an asbestos waste dump on land it owned at Curraghbinny , an exclusive residential and scenic area of Co . |
| 16 | It also applied for planning permission to dump at another site it owned at Barnahely , Ringaskiddy . |
| 17 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia , however , believing that the IEA was being too pessimistic about future demand , was unofficially estimated to have increased its production by some 150,000 bpd to 8,500,000 bpd ( excluding 150,000 bpd Saudi production from the neutral zone which it shared with Kuwait ) . |
| 19 | The story , which traces some of the bad feelings Novell harbours towards Microsoft to the spoiled deal , says Novell got skittish after it shared inside information with Microsoft and then found it was secretly negotiating to take over Fox Software . |
| 20 | Fishing under licence was to continue within the original 150-mile zone , but no fishing was to be allowed in the new zone , to be regarded as an area of Anglo-Argentine co-operation , the eastern half of which was to be patrolled by the Falklands and the western half by Argentina since it overlapped with part of its 200-mile territorial waters . |
| 21 | Caird is sending shareholders an external environmental audit which it commissioned from consultants Mott MacDonald . |
| 22 | Ferranti this week received the report it commissioned from accountants Coopers & Lybrand on the alleged fraud . |
| 23 | Ferranti expects to take delivery today of the report it commissioned from Coopers and Lybrand on the alleged fraud . |
| 24 | As it got under way it began to develop ( understandably , I felt ) into a tirade in favour of abortion . |
| 25 | One might embark upon a conversation and find it quite suddenly rounded off before it got under way . |
| 26 | When it got to about 1 a.m. he realised how cold it got at night when you are outside . |
| 27 | They could n't catch this stallion : it was in a loose box and it got on top of the chap who 'd been leading it . |
| 28 | ‘ Tell him there 's a slight possibility that the horses ’ drinking water was tampered with on the train , before it got to Thunder Bay . |
| 29 | But when it got to lunchtime today it 's been quite . |
| 30 | The train was n't stopping until it got to London ; there were other people in the carriage and surely these men would n't dare try anything here , now . |