Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 2 | By the middle of the year the ALP was also in control of every state government except New South Wales , where it had lost power in 1988 . |
| 3 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 4 | The Law Commission has now proposed the abolition of the marital-rape exemption , bringing English law into accord with the many other jurisdictions where it does constitute rape for a husband to have non-consensual sexual intercourse with his wife . |
| 5 | This type of so-called magic realism assumes major importance in the fiction of Asturias , Carpentier and Arguedas , where it serves to give expression to the magical-religious thought and mythical world-view of the Indian and Negro peoples of Latin America . |
| 6 | Germany 's noblest grape the Riesling , called the Rhine Riesling in Australia , is the most widely planted classic variety in Australia , although it does have difficulty in finding a niche in our market . |
| 7 | It is the first time the industry has been able to purchase cover for long-term environmental damage although it does buy insurance against sudden pollution incidents or claims from disasters such as explosions . |
| 8 | This is followed by an extensive section on the optimisation of column variables , although it does lack details of the increasingly useful column temperature control technique . |
| 9 | Chris Webb reported a quiet year for the planning committee , with only 78 applications , most of them for extensions , alterations and change of use , although it had included plans for low cost housing . |
| 10 | Debt rescheduling agreements [ see pp. 37393 ; 37729 ] had reduced some of the pressure on the government , which , although it had committed forces on the allied side in the current Gulf war , identified with popular support for Iraq [ see p. 37940 ] . |
| 11 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 12 | The borough welcomes the presence of the unified command , although it has caused consternation in parts of Wales and the north-west . |
| 13 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 14 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 15 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 16 | The conclusion in No. 10 was , therefore , that it had become part of the Cabinet Office and was politically starved … on anything that had a political dimension , the tank found itself rather isolated . ’ |
| 17 | The USA , France , Venezuela and Argentina denounced the coup and demanded Aristide 's return to power , a demand echoed by the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , despite the re-affirmation at its June assembly of its traditional position of non-intervention if proof was given by a new government that it had gained control of its internal affairs [ see p. 38286 ] . |
| 18 | The company commented that it had benchmarked machines like ICL 's DRS6000 and a Sequent server in December 1990 but they were not considered fast enough . |
| 19 | The report added that it had cost Iran between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 to provide services for the refugees . |
| 20 | BP announced last night that it had reached agreement with Venezuela 's state oil company to re-activate the Pedernales oilfield in the Orinoco delta which has been out of production since the mid-1980s . |
| 21 | Prussia became aware that it had lost parity with its allies from the Napoleonic years and determined to catch up by creating a series of technical schools — later to include Danzig 's Technical High School for boys and the famous Conradinum — and by beginning to investigate and research industrial techniques . |
| 22 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 23 | Peugeot said that it had lost production of 49,000 cars as a result of the strikes . |
| 24 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 25 | Cherwell district council estimated that it had lost £200,000 in poll tax revenue due from the wives of US servicemen . |
| 26 | The all-party talks on Oct. 12 proved inconclusive , and on Oct. 29 the SLFP withdrew its support for such talks , claiming that it had lost confidence in the government 's will to solve the country 's problems and that none of the opposition proposals had been put into effect . |
| 27 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 28 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 29 | The government ended seven years of legal wrangling over compensation by announcing on June 21 that it had fixed payments for relatives of those killed and injured in the Bhopal gas disaster of December 1984 [ see pp. 33647-48 ] . |
| 30 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |