Example sentences of "it [vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It read as follows ( Hansard , Official Report , Sixth Series ( 1983 ) , vol. 49 , pp. 256–257 , cols. 506–507 ) : |
| 2 | It read as follows : I had spent many weary hours and weary days of negotiation before arriving at the point where I withdrew from acting as an adviser to the profession because the consultants had embarked on strike action . |
| 3 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 4 | The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] … |
| 5 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 6 | Apricot really stole a march on the competition last September with a couple of new PCs it described as optimized for workgroup operation . |
| 7 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 8 | It referred disparagingly to ’ comprehensive conformity ’ and bemoaned the departure of grammar schools , which it described as having taught rigorously , maintained discipline and specialised in the production of excellence . |
| 9 | The badly damaged aircraft limped back to Sicily where it crashed whilst attempting to land and was destroyed . |
| 10 | It advised as follows : " Listen to the client going apeshit about his experience of our investment recommendations , and agree with him … |
| 11 | To Paul Dubrulle , a thirty-four-year-old French Jesuit serving as an infantry sergeant at Verdun , whose journals are outstanding for their un-embellished realism , it seemed as follows : |
| 12 | It happened as follows . |
| 13 | The agreement , subject to negotiation of final terms and conditions , provides that $8m , which was due on March 1 , will be due for repayment on December 31 1993 , and the other $8m on March 1 , 1994 ; Commodore and Prudential also agreed in principle to extend a March 1 $5m senior note repayment to December 31 , and the company said it paid as scheduled the remaining $12.5m senior note maturities due to Prudential and to another of its lenders . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the OFT said the complaints would be considered before it decided whether to demand assurances concerning the company 's future behaviour . |
| 15 | MI6 was greatly upset by Churchill 's decision to create Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) , which it saw as infringing upon its sacred duties . |
| 16 | Slowing down , the equivalent gravity pulls the opposite way to what it did when speeding up . |
| 17 | This Jacobinism was exceptional ; more significant was the gradual growth of the idea that the monarch 's power , however beneficent it appeared when directed against the strongholds of privilege , must be limited by a constitution in the event of its being exercised by an irresponsible favourite like Godoy . |
| 18 | It ran as follows : |
| 19 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |
| 20 | But the relation of labourism to the working class was passive ; it accepted as given the position of the class and its organisations in an historically-evolved bourgeois society . |
| 21 | The attempt to legislate on what was essentially moral behaviour proved a disaster , though it lasted until reversed by the 21st Amendment in 1933 . |