Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also resulted in the interest in the potential of the Macintosh extending beyond the production area to design and editorial staff where it developed into passionate enthusiasm . |
| 2 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 3 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 4 | However , this was not the main argument used by the Government during the debate on the Bill in Parliament , where it met with determined opposition . |
| 5 | By 1976 this had fallen to 16 per cent where it remained without significant change up to 1986 . |
| 6 | Though the six counties initially refused an offer of separation from the rest of Ireland , that was the compromise eventually agreed on , although it led to civil war in the new Irish Free State , and remains the root cause of later violence . |
| 7 | The supposed inferiority of women to men , although it existed in developing countries before colonialism , was reinforced by Victorian colonists and through Christianity . |
| 8 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 9 | Although it began in southern Spain , his movement quickly spread west and north , eventually establishing its most tenacious roots in Galicia , which was to become its heartland . |
| 10 | Moreover , under 1020 the death of Archbishop Lyfing is given first , although it occurred on 12 June , after Cnut 's return to England and the Easter meeting at Cirencester . |
| 11 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 12 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 13 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 14 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 15 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 16 | David O'Leary had another reason for the lack of flair : ‘ Once it went to extra time everyone was afraid to make a mistake . |
| 17 | Once it exploded with divine flavour — but no longer . |
| 18 | Basil de Ferranti was chairman of the company until it merged with International Signal and Control , a takeover which he supported . |
| 19 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 20 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 21 | According to this , we can best assess the intrinsic value of something if we ask how good or bad a thing it would be if it existed in complete isolation . |
| 22 | What could be more sensible than the suggestion that the best way of evaluating a thing for its very own self , and not for its effects or its contribution to the value of larger wholes , is to consider what value it would possess if it existed in complete isolation ? |
| 23 | FRANCE and Germany pledged yesterday to defend the French franc if it came under further attack from speculators , but they dismissed suggestions that they might link their two currencies in a mini monetary union . |
| 24 | If it came to straightforward riot control , the most appropriate force would probably be the 12,000-strong People 's Police Alert units , under the control of the ministry of the interior . |
| 25 | If it came to constitutional change , he would prefer it to involve the introduction of direct presidential elections — no doubt hoping that the first directly elected president would be none other than himself . |
| 26 | If it came to unknown backgrounds , after all , no one seemed to know too much about Wheeler 's . |
| 27 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |
| 28 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 29 | Clearly it would be difficult to justify a dual system of justice if it led to certain types of people being more easily convicted , for the whole concept of the rule of law was to tip the balance of power away from the accusing state to the accused individual because it was rightly felt a too one-sided contest without such protection . |
| 30 | There must be some height , call it h , such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height , but would just survive if it fell from a slightly lower height . |