Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final testimony to the vitality of European civilization in this period is the small concession which it made to reciprocal influences from the world outside . |
| 2 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
| 3 | At the same time , the rise of this new class , and the transition from feudalism to capitalism which it accomplished in Western Europe , were made possible by other transformations and political or cultural conflicts ; by the establishment of centralized , effectively administered nation states , and by the religious struggles from which emerged the Protestant sects and the diffusion of the Protestant ethic , which at the very least contributed to the self-confidence and determination of the bourgeoisie , promoted a climate of opinion favourable to its activities , and perhaps hastened its triumph . |
| 4 | All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city . |
| 5 | And also last Friday at education committee there was a long debate , both on the procedure which would be adopted by the working party , in discharging it 's remit and in particular the policy which it recommended regarding small schools , and also an extended debate on one of the areas which was a subject of recommendation by the er , district auditor which concerns the organisation of first and middle schooling in the Meer area , and there the working party did look very specifically at the recommendation that was made by the district auditor that decided on balance that that was n't likely to produce the best and most cost effective education in that part of the county . |
| 6 | Each gang , called a crew , had its own area which it defended against other skins and non-skins . |
| 7 | It issues pollution warnings only when the level exceeds 100 ppb , which it did on seven occasions in the 1990 summer . |
| 8 | They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out , which it did in spectacular fashion . |
| 9 | An infallible belief would be justified but would not derive its justification from any relation in which it stood to other beliefs ; it would not need any support from elsewhere . |
| 10 | Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ? |
| 11 | First , the robot made a plastic body which it covered with soft plastic , like a skin . |
| 12 | He hurriedly wrote a long letter to The Times , which it published on 14th February , the Monday after the debate . |
| 13 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | Wycliffe had no maxims , but that was exactly what was being done , though to him it seemed of paramount importance to build a clear picture of the victim himself . |
| 15 | To me it looked like four sheets of Kleenex wiped in something unspeakable and stapled as far away from the fold as possible . |
| 16 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 17 | What it meant in human terms was that black UK citizens excluded from their own country ( Britain ) were and still are being forced to live in countries where they have no right to live or work . |
| 18 | What it lacked in glossy technique it made up for in sincerity . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 20 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 21 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |
| 22 | An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other . |
| 23 | Schering disclosed what it regarded as confidential information to Falkman and the expert for this purpose . |
| 24 | The Native Recruiting Corporation of the Chamber of Mines in South Africa attempted to divert African opinion away from what it regarded as dangerous channels by its Umteteli wa Bantu ( ‘ Voice of the people ’ ) , which first appeared in 1921 . |