Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In giving most people middle-class aspirations it tried to rid the nation of its old-fashioned class structure . |
| 2 | ‘ Nor the number of days it took to build the Palazzo Farnese ? ’ |
| 3 | In the absence of any data on assimilation the DES ( 1984b ) fitted two models — No Assimilation and Full Assimilation — and prefer the former on the grounds that for males it appeared to fit the experience of the past ten years rather better . |
| 4 | THE opening of Britain 's £25m pavilion at the Expo 92 exhibition in Seville on Monday has been overshadowed by a dispute between Trafalgar House and the firms it hired to complete the project . |
| 5 | When Imperial Airways was formed in 1924 to link the British Empire by a network of routes it had to overcome the problem of flying over featureless deserts with virtually no navigational aids . |
| 6 | It was using what assets it had to keep the group afloat . |