Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the Warsaw uprising , where it had several adherents among the Russian officers of the garrison , dealt the organization a severe blow . |
| 2 | Its platform was explicitly anti-immigration , although it denied any sympathy with neo-Nazis . |
| 3 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 4 | In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time . |
| 5 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 6 | The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies . |
| 7 | The house was insured for £64,000 , although it transpired that insurance for a completed house and contents had been issued , and the house was not in fact covered . |
| 8 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 9 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 10 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
| 11 | It was the first contact between the LDP and the North Korean government , and marked a significant shift in policy by the latter communist regime , which had hitherto rejected overtures from the Japanese government on the grounds that it had diplomatic relations with South Korea . |
| 12 | The district benefited from the fact that it had comparative information on performance from a large range of providers which enabled them to take a more detached view of the strengths and weaknesses of its own unit , even though it also increased the complexity of contracting . |
| 13 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 14 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 15 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 16 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 17 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 18 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 19 | The RHA felt that it had sufficient grounds for proceeding with the initiative , and it was proposed to make ‘ one or more senior appointments … with specific responsibility for coordinating plans and ensuring implementation ’ . |
| 20 | It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish . |
| 21 | FCA of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to carry out a review of its compliance procedures in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.09 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to warn clients of the extent to which they may be exposed to risk in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 , when the firm gave advice to clients such that , if acted upon , it would result in commission being received , it failed to inform those clients of that position in writing in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.47 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to issue engagement letters in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.60 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to ensure that it had adequate records in accordance with the terms of the Regulation was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 22 | In fact it was already a quality of Britten 's music before Grimes that it said new things with material which , on closer inspection , often turned out to be surprisingly familiar and straightforward . |
| 23 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 24 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 25 | There was a concerted gasp of shock around the table , and Benedict himself stiffened , his frown deepening so that it cut heavy lines across his forehead and between his brows , marring his looks . |
| 26 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 27 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
| 28 | Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 29 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 30 | Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing . |