Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The special session announced the creation of working groups to overhaul mass organizations and to strengthen participation in the municipal and provincial people 's power system of government ; and it proposed the National Assembly of People 's Power be upgraded to play a more dynamic role in assessing government performance . |
| 32 | The Scottish Trades Union Congress in 1981 passed a resolution after debate on the John Saunders case , and it included the following section : |
| 33 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |
| 34 | It spawned the Bladud tale , it made Francis Peck subtitle his Antiquarian Annals of Stanford of 1727 Academia Tercia Anglicana , or ‘ The Third English University ’ , and it fuelled the fertile minds of William Stukeley and later Victorian romantics . |
| 35 | The award was presented by the Prince of Wales at the Annual Meeting of the per cent club , which I 've already mentioned , and it was during nineteen ninety , and it won the private sector small to medium size company , or companies subsidiary sector category . |
| 36 | Witton to Electric House quarter of an hour , Electric House to Rushmere Heath , quarter of an hour and it did the reverse direction . |
| 37 | So he goes out and starts the number and I followed with the guitar intro — you know , the tapping thing — and it turned the whole gig around . |
| 38 | down and it hit the two bars not the three bars , cos you get one , two and three bars do n't you ? that 's five , ten , fifteen pounds |
| 39 | He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents . |
| 40 | Miranda had a skewed air , her dark curls sprang up on her head so that the younger girl noticed little black hairs running down the vertebrae of her neck to the nape ; there was a feral shine and speed to her too , something uncontained , and it scared the younger girl . |
| 41 | The Léon type was first formally distinguished from other Breton cattle in 1859 and it resisted the ubiquitous crossing to the Durham Shorthorn . |
| 42 | The Association feared that if floodlighting caught on , clubs would be drawn into spending too much money , and it banned the new lights at Highbury from being used for official matches . |
| 43 | The headline , in very large letters indeed , read ‘ FIRST KILL ! ’ and it showed the golden eagle taking a duck on the lake in Regent 's Park . |
| 44 | The Anglo-German study of microelectronics in manufacturing ( Sorge et al. 1983 ) was a study of the use of CNC machine tools in the engineering industries of the two countries , and it showed the extreme flexibility of CNC technology . |
| 45 | This reflected the successful Soviet cultivation of this small state and it helped the Soviet Union legitimise a number of its cherished initiatives for the Mediterranean . |
| 46 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 47 | I do n't live here , but it seemed the obvious thing to do . ’ |
| 48 | As with most research projects covering unfamiliar ground , it was not clear at the time how this would help the subsequent investigation , but it met the immediate need to record the results in a concise and tidy manner . |
| 49 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 50 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 51 | He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect . |
| 52 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 53 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 54 | When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation . |
| 55 | It felt like a command , as did so many of Elinor 's remarks — but it had the menacing power of a scientific law . |
| 56 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 57 | It did Thom himself little good but it exacerbated the inarticulate anger of other officers at the pettiness of the regulations in the face of the array of temptations . |
| 58 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 59 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 60 | I had often marvelled at it , but it made the present disaster all the more unbearable . |