Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first , which is currently out of favour , although it made a brief reappearance in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent , is the literal approach . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had looked everywhere else and , although it seemed a long shot , she might as well look in there . |
| 11 | The SSP 's policy was close to that of the Socialist League although it had a strong pacifist section and remained hostile to Communism . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Here we are — a testament to the work of Woodline Design since its inception , although it had a different title then . ’ |
| 15 | Although it showed an overall swing of seven per cent to Labour since the last election , in the key regions it was much bigger . |
| 16 | This was a very early version , although it worked an absolute dream the cards are not yet BT Approved . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | Inside the jacket there 's a mesh liner made from a dry mesh ripstop nylon which although it held a little perspiration , dried quickly . |
| 21 | I could n't see anything , so it seemed a logical assumption . |
| 22 | In the Samburu language ‘ yare ’ means ‘ quest ’ , so it seemed an appropriate place to stay . |
| 23 | The Government was deeply unhappy about criticism from the press , so it introduced a new tax on newspapers which forced many to close and cut the sales of others so that circulation was restricted to the better-off . |
| 24 | Once it reached a designated zone about 500 miles off Land 's End , the ship hove to and special tipping platforms were assembled along one side . |
| 25 | It gradually descended and changed in colour , until it became a blue-grey mist seething over the heads of the musicians , almost as if the sweat generated by their exertions was steaming in cold air above them . |
| 26 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 27 | This would lead to balance of payments problems , or in the event of the establishment of EMU , the progressive impoverishment of the UK until it became a poor region of the EC . |
| 28 | The beef herd proved the breed 's ability to thrive on modest feeding and to give high killing-out percentages in all age groups , and gradually the beef traits increased in importance until it became a single-purpose beef breed . |
| 29 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 30 | Otto Werner , formerly of the Bundesanstalt fur Materialprüfung , Berlin , published analyses in 1970 which showed that in very general terms the amount of zinc in the brass increased with time until it reached a natural maximum of about 28 per cent . |