Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us went along and parked at Welshpool Station and took a look at the narrow-gauge line 's original terminus where it connected with the Cambrian Line . |
| 2 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |
| 3 | Where it ran into the special ceramic-and-leather codpiece that it tailored into most of my tights and leggings , a useful protection in many situations . |
| 4 | Yanto reached the end of the rock bridge where it disappeared into the hard sand The walking was now relatively easy as he made his way towards the first of the salmon traps , or kipes as they were called locally . |
| 5 | 15 years ago MOVIES were a major part of the schedules although the film of Up Pompeii starring Frankie ( Please yourself , missus ) Howerd was on back where it started on the small screen . |
| 6 | The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) , supported mainly by members of the scheduled castes , won one Lok Sabha seat and nine seats in the Assembly , where it emerged as the second party , having previously held no seats . |
| 7 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 8 | The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs . |
| 9 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 10 | Forcing her mouth into a winsome smile , Gina pronounced the greeting , so that it sounded like the English ‘ good day ’ , in accordance with the instructions of her Berlitz language guide . |
| 11 | The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry . |
| 12 | So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth . |
| 13 | Does not that show that the Government could best serve the CBI by running the economy in such a way that inflation is kept down and does not reach the levels that it reached under the last Labour Government ? |
| 14 | Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort . |
| 15 | The leaf area/weight was as efficient in the sense that it took about the same time to detect comparable differences . |
| 16 | Harry Gent , at any rate , always claimed that it arose from the numerous illegal cockfights that were held in the cellar . |
| 17 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 18 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 19 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 20 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 21 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 22 | The fire dropped all round it so that it disappeared in the rolling orange and curling black . |
| 23 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 24 | She set the glass down on the table , her hand shaking so that it rattled against the ornate white-painted metal . |
| 25 | For in addition to the package that it negotiated with the delightful Mrs Morozova back in 1990 , came the equally delightful and extremely talented Miss Roubanova , the 13 year old daughter of Olga and her husband , Victor . |
| 26 | His ‘ serialism ’ , however , the theory he provided to account for them , failed to convince scientists that it fused with the new physics . |
| 27 | Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May . |
| 28 | I was going by a brief statement made by the officer which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March . |
| 29 | Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century . |
| 30 | Unwittingly , Howard appears to accept that Labour 's growth was inexorable , within the context of the times , for he argues that it occurred despite the poor level of party organization throughout the country . |