Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is still a large space where it received a direct hit at the end of the war , destroying much of the city archives . |
| 2 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 3 | Hurricane Iniki headed 100 miles north for the main Hawaiian resort of Oahu — where it killed a 15-year-old boy — before it suddenly switched course for Kauai . |
| 4 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 5 | Another route was to start at Selby Road , the Croydon boundary and proceed along Croydon Road and Green Lane , Penge where it met a small enclave of Beckenham before the Lewisham Boundary . |
| 6 | This had opened in Fulham in 1945 , but soon moved into the buildings formerly occupied by St John 's Wood Art Schools where it became a vital centre for those interested in French art . |
| 7 | He felt attached to it so had tattooed the name in his right armpit where it matched the oriental dragon rampaging over the inside of his bicep . |
| 8 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 9 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 10 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 11 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |
| 12 | The maintenance of armies on this scale and the continued uncertainty of medieval political life had other effects too ; although it escaped the large-scale violence which affected much of Northern England during the Wars of the Roses , Sussex had an ample share of earlier troubles . |
| 13 | The new church , although it incorporated the old church of San Satiro , was named for the Madonna , which explains why the new church is renown as Santa Maria presso San Satiro , the church of St Mary near St Satiro . |
| 14 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
| 15 | The first , which is currently out of favour , although it made a brief reappearance in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent , is the literal approach . |
| 16 | However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) . |
| 17 | The policy , which aimed to reserve 27 per cent of public-sector jobs for members of the lower castes , provoked caste-based violence across northern India ( although it received a large measure of support in the predominantly low-caste south ) and provided an issue around which Singh 's opponents within the Janata Dal could coalesce . |
| 18 | She had looked everywhere else and , although it seemed a long shot , she might as well look in there . |
| 19 | The SSP 's policy was close to that of the Socialist League although it had a strong pacifist section and remained hostile to Communism . |
| 20 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
| 21 | In India , the Congress Party , although it had a socialist wing , was to a large extent a middle-class independence movement ; and the partition of India after the ending of British rule created in Pakistan a state dominated by landowners and the military , and in India a liberal democratic regime in which there was a mixture of socialist and capitalist elements . |
| 22 | ‘ Here we are — a testament to the work of Woodline Design since its inception , although it had a different title then . ’ |
| 23 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 25 | Although it showed an overall swing of seven per cent to Labour since the last election , in the key regions it was much bigger . |
| 26 | This was a very early version , although it worked an absolute dream the cards are not yet BT Approved . |
| 27 | It was at this point that Laba had effected the only feasible escape procedure for such circumstances , although it required a good deal of luck . |
| 28 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 29 | But they should not compare the two sets of drawings too closely , as the competition schemes were part of a larger layout , and Scott 's latest design was for a much smaller building which , although it included an official residence , hardly exceeded the bulk and cost of the original office part alone . |
| 30 | On June 11 the Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting the desecration of the flag ; a proposed constitutional amendment — supported by Bush — to prohibit such activities failed to generate sufficient support in Congress , although it obtained a simple majority in each chamber [ see pp. 37241 ; 37525 ] . |