Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most interesting feature of this study , however , is the way in which it compared the preferred jobs of school-leavers with those obtained , revealing the gap between aspirations and reality . |
| 2 | The pain , which was due to the pressure of the cancer on a nerve , was entirely relieved by the shrinking of the growth , to the extent at which it caused no further suffering . |
| 3 | ‘ Phoenixa ’ is EMI 's culling from the old Pye Nixa catalogue , which it acquired a few years ago and launched with a contribution from each record sold to the environmental music charity ‘ Music for the World ’ . |
| 4 | Relations between Slovenia and Serbia deteriorated sharply during early July , following the publication on July 2 of a formal declaration by the Slovenian Assembly in which it proclaimed the full sovereignty of the Slovenian republic . |
| 5 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 6 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 7 | Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings . |
| 8 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 9 | Hungary had in late January limited the renewal of export licences for sales to the Soviet Union ( with which it had a marked trade surplus ) and pursued its aim of exporting more to the West for hard currency . |
| 10 | For much of its history psychobiology has been a subject ahead of its time , often asking questions for which it had no meaningful answers . |
| 11 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 12 | Nothing was more spiritual than music , but the characteristic form in which it entered the bourgeois home was the piano , an exceedingly large , elaborate and expensive apparatus , even when reduced , for the benefit of a more modest stratum aspiring to true bourgeois values , to the more manageable dimensions of the upright ( pianino ) . |
| 13 | In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’ |
| 14 | At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 16 | Michael Swinton is not , of course , one of our most distinguished painters , his style is too obvious , too photographic but I imagine that to you it seemed a wonderful distinction . ’ |
| 17 | Nat King Cole 's daughter told you it carried a famous name . |
| 18 | Paula might look as if butter would n't melt in her mouth but when her mind was made up to something it took a stronger woman than Grace to talk her out of it . |
| 19 | Large armchairs , with loose covers , looked comfortable , but when I sat in one it had a broken spring . |
| 20 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 21 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 22 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 23 | In the following weeks , Montenegro and Japan joined the Allies , the Turkish Empire the Central Powers , with whom it had a secret treaty ; Italy and Portugal were later to join the Allies . |
| 24 | And er to me it presented a great opportunity , I I j I won quite a lot of books . |
| 25 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 26 | Er , it it had a peculiar taste with it . |
| 27 | Apparently spooked , Univel cut its prices , attempting what it called a pre-emptive strike . |
| 28 | Apparently spooked , Univel cut its prices attempting what it called a pre-emptive strike . |
| 29 | The Labour party said that it wanted some mechanism other than discounts ; that it would deal with pensioners with what it called a single pensioner premium . |
| 30 | It is scarcely surprising that when the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries examined this problem it found a ‘ lack of clarity and certainty and purpose ’ among what it called the sponsoring government departments . |