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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1950 , the group established the Daily Graphic in the Gold Coast , and in 1952 it bought the Daily Mail of Sierra Leone . |
| 5 | At its grandest it produced the Italian palazzo : Chester General ( 1848 ) or Dublin Amiens Street ( 1844 ) . |
| 6 | But even in February 1980 it doubted the long-term viability of this mechanism and pointed to potential LDCs ' debt servicing problems for banks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |