Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 2 | She opened her factory , Coade and Seely , in Lambeth in 1769 which at first , in keeping with the times , manufactured ornaments of classical inspiration , but by the 1840s it showed the pronounced influence of the early Victorian decorative style . |
| 3 | Horrible and impossible it enfolded the two women in its slimy obsceneness . |
| 4 | At best , this focused that subtle blend of doctrine and awareness of its living reality defended by Walter Hilton and Reginald Pecock , at worst it encouraged the superstitious substitute for the work of faith which was labelled idolatry by the Lollards , those enthusiasts for the study of Scripture who tended to confuse its letter with its spirit . |
| 5 | In 1950 , the group established the Daily Graphic in the Gold Coast , and in 1952 it bought the Daily Mail of Sierra Leone . |
| 6 | In 1966 it produced the closest contest of any post-war election with a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts . |
| 7 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 8 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 9 | At its grandest it produced the Italian palazzo : Chester General ( 1848 ) or Dublin Amiens Street ( 1844 ) . |
| 10 | Reporting in 1935 it advocated the fullest adoption of the planned distribution of industry and population based on garden city development . |
| 11 | In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index . |
| 12 | But even in February 1980 it doubted the long-term viability of this mechanism and pointed to potential LDCs ' debt servicing problems for banks . |
| 13 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 14 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
| 15 | This stage , then , took our research a step further in that it penetrated the submerged section of the ‘ iceberg ’ and offered some insight into this large and hidden sector of users . |
| 16 | It reinforced existing values , satisfied needs , but was at times a potential source of conflict in that it forced the ablest educatees away and drafted in some unwilling educators . |
| 17 | Her eyelids flipped open , and the world was hard-edged , dull and ugly , and so big , so big it squashed the tiny meanings out of sight but still they hovered on the borders of her mental vision and she would have dreamt her way back into that fae¨rie ether but a harsh voice slurred a saw of sound at her . |
| 18 | On Nov. 15 it ordered the French car group Renault to repay some F 12,000 million ( approximately equivalent to USdollars 1,900 million as Nov. 13 , 1989 ) of state aid received since 1988 , having already demanded the repayment of F 111,200,000 from the Peugeot group in respect of a cheap credit deal . |
| 19 | From nineteen fifty one to fifty two it re-graduated the progressive tax rates , raising the bottom rate from six percent in the same threshold of a hundred and fifty per capita per annum , and lowering the top rate to twenty five percent . |
| 20 | When the system worked at its best it realized the highest hopes : " The opportunity for college directors to purchase low-cost systems geared to institutional management , as well as to LEA or national data requirements , created a significant opportunity to improve strategic , tactical and operational management . |
| 21 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 22 | However , in late October 1990 it approved the proposed purchase by Air France of its two domestic counterparts in the French market , Air Inter and UTA [ see also p. 38123 ] . |
| 23 | Next it cut the steep mountainside between Great and Little How Crags , where , at about the 2,100 ft. contour , the 17th Century miners had — by means of open-cut and tunnel — opened their Black Scar Workings . |
| 24 | In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution . |
| 25 | The week before last it put the full text of the initial complaint ( but not the expanded suit ) on UUNet ostensibly because so many were asking to see the exact wording . |
| 26 | When I re-installed MS DOS 3.3 it altered the original CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to the ones I 've included with this letter . |