Example sentences of "it in [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PSA has always done it in the past . |
| 2 | But nearly half of those who had used it in the past , though not using it currently , rated it as never good . |
| 3 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 4 | He will shift very rapidly between different representations of the equipment ; the thing itself , his maintenance instructions , the manual , the drawings of the system , verbal discussion with a colleague , his recollection of what has happened to it in the past and so on . |
| 5 | Soler argued that the higher altitude of the Guadix area ( 900–1100m above sea level ) had prevented cuckoos from colonizing it in the past , as the species seems to favour lowland below 500m ( but see ref. 9 ) . |
| 6 | We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past . |
| 7 | Time is regarded as a crucial aspect of experience in English , so that it is virtually impossible to discuss any event in English without locating it in the past , present , or future . |
| 8 | Immigrant doctors in Britain may silently have put up with a lot of it in the past , but those born and educated in Britain have every right to expect that they will be judged strictly on merit . |
| 9 | I mean I found it in the past , you know any infection what so ever just knocks you for six . |
| 10 | The truth acquired a logic and an ordinariness , until in the end her blindness to it in the past became puzzling to comprehend . |
| 11 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 12 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 13 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 14 | If fact it 's it 's I found it in the past to be a welcome very welcome break from the atmosphere because you ca n't hang around in in the dining hall without talking a Green Party . |
| 15 | ‘ Ferreters used it in the past . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 18 | I learnt something about it in the past yeah |
| 19 | but if they are wankers nothing you do , and including , I mean I 've done it in the past , slowed right down and nine times out of ten it jus it just incenses them to drive even closer . |
| 20 | I did it in the past , right , and I did blame it on Mark , right and that last thing |
| 21 | People have done it in the past and have regretted it . |
| 22 | I know that they 've stopped people doing it in the past because they would n't , did n't want . |