Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour . |
| 2 | The role of foremen or front-line supervisors in these evaluations is a central one and it developed during the 1950s as an integral part of efforts to promote QC activities . |
| 3 | The struggle between the Greek and the native Slav influences within the Byzantine Church goes back to the time of Cyril and Methodius , and it continued into the nineteenth century in both the Serbian and Bulgarian churches . |
| 4 | It was replaced instead by a restrained , disciplined formality that seems foreign to the Minoan spirit , but it was nevertheless hieratic , powerful and rich , and it continued into the post-Temple period ( Late Minoan IIIA , dating to 1400–1300 BC ) . |
| 5 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 6 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 7 | The cat was white , a Suristani with a prehensile tail , and it hung from the lower branch of one of the trees and slashed at the dogs which were clustered below . |
| 8 | The car crossed the shallow racing river in Boyle , passed the grey walls of the roofless monastery , and it kept on the main road leading across the Curlews . |
| 9 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 10 | He tore at the roots that were pinioning his ankles , breaking his thick horn nails in the process , but the roots held and it seemed to the two watching Renascians , that the Tree Spirits swayed and murmured with amusement . |
| 11 | An increase in the noise level and glimpses of exotic vegetables told her that they were in a market street , and it seemed to the over-sensitive Meredith that Lucenzo was almost continually returning greetings and brushing off sympathetic offers of help . |
| 12 | Before she had managed it , she heard Glyn 's voice , and it seemed of the utmost importance that he did not begin to get to know the man who had come here and turned her small world upside-down so quickly . |
| 13 | I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) . |
| 14 | Urged on by a renewed Ibrox roar , they stormed forward in search of an equaliser , and it came in the 83rd minute . |
| 15 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 16 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 17 | The tower was added in 1864 and it passed to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904 . |
| 18 | A long throw on the Leeds left went into the box , someone got a head to it and it looped towards the far post . |
| 19 | We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine treatment , and they were protected by transfection with bcl-2 ( not shown ) . |
| 20 | It was short , like Mr Hyde , and it moved in the same light , quick , active way . |
| 21 | The administration in the United States ( which had never formally recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic republics into the Soviet Union ) on March 12 ruled out such recognition until independence had been properly negotiated with the Soviet authorities , and it called on the latter to respect Lithuania 's declaration , and on all parties to avoid violence . |
| 22 | This was the Emperor Napoleon 's Army of the North and it marched towards the waiting Dutch , British and Prussian forces . |
| 23 | And it concentrated on the famous sites , the ones that amused the excursionists — while ignoring the thousands of lesser earthworks that were of value to the scientific archaeologist . |
| 24 | John Sich founded the ‘ Lamb Brewery ’ , in 1773 , just off Church Street , Chiswick , and it remained in the same family until 1923 . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , if the flag was not granted in accordance with international law , third countries might not recognise the vessel as genuinely bearing the nationality of the flag which it purported to fly , and it referred to the separate opinion of Judge Jessup in Case concerning the Barcelona Traction , Light and Power Co . |
| 26 | It was the Voice of Reason , and it perched on the opposite shoulder from the Voice of his Conscience , and it was frequently on his side . |
| 27 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |
| 28 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |