Example sentences of "it [vb past] the form " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chicago Civil Aviation Conference of 1944 is rarely discussed today , but it established the forms and organizations that have governed postwar civil aviation to this day . |
| 2 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 3 | It took the form of granting women — provided they had attained thirty years of age , the right to vote in a parliamentary election ; also all men of twenty-one years of age . |
| 4 | But it took the form of an insufferable élitist arrogance , a blanket rejection of ‘ Victorian taste ’ , largely because it was bourgeois , emotional , and — most reprehensible of all — popular , even with the masses . |
| 5 | It took the form of an intercalation of a full month of thirty days once every 120 years . |
| 6 | It took the form of a Sunday afternoon prayer-meeting in a private medical lecture room in North Portland Street during the latter part of 1825 . |
| 7 | It took the form of contracts for three firms to renovate residences belonging to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive , the state corporation responsible for public-owned housing . |
| 8 | It took the form of the apparently anti-monopoly anti-big-business Sherman Act . |
| 9 | This occasionally resulted in amendments — more often it took the form of assurances from ministers about future intentions . |
| 10 | Secondly , at a more formal level , it took the form of eight regional one-day conferences . |
| 11 | Thus the firm in economic theory behaved identically and was subject to the same constraints whether it took the form of an individual proprietorship , a partnership or a company . |
| 12 | It took the form of a huge bronze globe supported by an enormous stone plinth . |
| 13 | It took the form of Baldwin agreeing only to speak for himself and of leaving open the question of an election . |
| 14 | It took the form of an open space tapering from a broad base outside the abbey walls , northwards to a point at which he built St Peter 's church . |
| 15 | Instead , when budgetary reform took place it took the form of a three tier decision making unit . |
| 16 | It took the form of a blaze of light at the back of the shop . |
| 17 | It took the form of a combination of taped , structured interviews with members of the arts departments in each school , together with at least one representative from the senior management of each school These interviews were transcribed and cross-referenced with documentary evidence in the form of observations of actual teaching , departmental syllabuses and other written material that either the departments or the schools were able to provide ( for example , school handbooks ; curriculum statements ; assessment policies ; etc . ) |
| 18 | It took the form of a mini exhibition , including the name-plate ‘ Carlisle ’ , a train staff , buttons , tickets and various photographs and documents . |
| 19 | Creffield , a film cameraman , was convicted of indecently assaulting a thirteen-year-old girl ( it was a technical assault only ; it took the form of taking indecent photographs of the girl who , being under age , was unable , in law , to consent ) . |
| 20 | It took the form of a list of 303 names of members and former members who had written at least one uncovered cheque during the 39-month period which ended on Oct. 3 , 1991 . |
| 21 | Under the Emperor Charles VI it took the form it was to retain , with some reorganisation in the 1750s , until the 1848 revolution swept it away . |
| 22 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 23 | In the United Kingdom it took the form of productivity deals aimed at eroding shopfloor control over working practices . |