Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 2 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 3 | When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago , all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year . |
| 4 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 5 | A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room . |
| 6 | Originally a woodshed , the previous owners had converted it into a thatched extension that is now lined with books . |
| 7 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 8 | It was not until Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) and Dean Inge ( 1860–1954 ) began to consider mysticism seriously that Anglicans started to see it as a spirituality that was authentically Christian . |
| 9 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 10 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |
| 11 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 12 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 13 | The assembly was dissolved in 1986 because the remaining Protestant members had turned it into a forum for opposing the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed in November 1985 . |
| 14 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 15 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 16 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 17 | Western statesmen had perceived it as a Soviet device to prise the United States and Western Europe apart . |
| 18 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 19 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 20 | The others decided to take it as a signal , and along with Paul and Agnes jumped out of their armchairs and hurried to their cars . |
| 21 | A derelict piece of land nearby was due for development , but the residents decided to make it into a garden . |
| 22 | Others liked to sell it by the ton ; measure it out after it had been trussed . |
| 23 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 24 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 25 | Others wanted to reconceptualise it as a process which could be of benefit to the school , and their department in particular . |
| 26 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |
| 27 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |
| 28 | If one of his deans or canons had written it in a Meditation he would have read it out to Bob in a mock-clerical voice , and deleted it , snarling . |