Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world . |
| 2 | The party 's myopic concentration on the kind of agricultural organizations it wished to nurture for the future is also shown in the frequent reports for 1922 on the fragile co-operative network . |
| 3 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 4 | With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund . |
| 5 | In the 1983 election , the party won less than half the number of seats it had won in the larger cities in 1959 , the last election when it was returned with a three-figure majority . |
| 6 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 7 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 8 | It was less passive and more assertive , determined to hold on to the powers it had reclaimed from the executive in both foreign and domestic policy . |
| 9 | But many had not been settled , and Britain had a list of 50 names it had presented to the Soviet authorities . |
| 10 | Boast he occasionally might , but that was part of his childlike pride in the continued expansion of his wholesale fancy goods business ; from a weekly round of nearby villages it had grown over the years into a limited-liability company with an extensive warehouse and a solid share of the city 's and province 's retail market . |
| 11 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |
| 12 | But the model of management that lay at the heart of this strategy was narrow , both in its conception of what makes the management of public services distinctive and in the lessons it chose to draw from the business world . |
| 13 | For over two decades , the USA sought to prevent the spread of communism in South-East Asia from the footholds it had acquired by the early 1950s in China and North Vietnam ( CORE , pp. 156–7 ) . |
| 14 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 15 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 16 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 17 | She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time . |