Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 2 | Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates . |
| 3 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 4 | In fact , working women were more independent and less likely to marry early ; and the real significance of this controversy was what it revealed about the ideological assumptions of ruling-class men . |
| 5 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 6 | The fact is that the Labour Party had a well-established base for the parliamentary success which it sought during the inter-war years . |
| 7 | It argued in the early days that to be too closely allied with Catholicism would deter a broad membership , which is now drawn from among protestants , muslims , baptists , Jews — and , it emphasises proudly , atheists . |
| 8 | In the 1840s , when coffee plantations were established on a large scale , it expanded into the central highlands . |
| 9 | The animal was a grey , sturdy and broad-chested , stable under almost any conditions , and it did not even check pace as it charged through the young trees which obstructed its path . |
| 10 | It was admirably researched , hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones . |
| 11 | Early on , the RCM tried hard to play down differences with policy statements which leaned some way towards orthodoxy without limiting the freedom of the RCM to act in what it regarded as the best interests of individual children . |
| 12 | I thought of the corruption of the North American Indians ' dress and the sullen dejection Robert Louis Stevenson had observed in the ragged groups of defeated Indians which gathered around his train as it moved through the Great Plains . |
| 13 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 14 | Hailed as a modern masterpiece , it drew on the basic elements of nineteenth-century picturesque — towers , pavilions , arches , and vaults — but gave them a distinct Scandinavian feel and line , the spirit of the sagas , as embodied in the gigantic statues at the entrance . |
| 15 | The extent to which the PCF was committed to popular front cultural politics can be appreciated both by the amount of time and energy that it devoted to the anti-fascist congresses , peace movements and revolutionary cultural associations of the period , and by its willingness to engage in the policy of la main tendue ( " the outstretched hand " ) in its relations with sympathisers of any persuasion , ideological or religious , willing to collaborate in its struggle against capitalist warmongering , imperialism , fascism and oppression . |
| 16 | It was small , and aware of the virtues of remaining small , lurking ambiguously between hotel and pub , and retaining its hold on the local bar custom while it lured in the fanatical fishermen from half the county for weekend indulgences and occasional contests . |
| 17 | ‘ We try to make it lighthearted for the other lads because there 's a lot of pressure . |
| 18 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 19 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 20 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 21 | It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded : |
| 22 | It helped in the early days , ’ she says . |
| 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 | The latter sturdy little ships were two and three deep alongside the large vessels discharging their cargoes in a frenzy of activity while overhead the air was thick with gulls , diving and squabbling over the loose fish as it spilled from the swinging baskets . |
| 25 | The Club proved very popular for many years as it appealed to the many actors , artists and musicians who found the atmosphere of Bedford Park most congenial . |
| 26 | Ramsey ended the week with a conviction that Temple 's quiet explanation of a Christian philosophy of life was the right way to expound Christianity in modern society and that the emotional popular mission was the wrong way because it appealed to the wrong emotions . |
| 27 | The two boys , shrieking excitedly , chased it around the terrace , panicking it further , and to escape them it darted through the open doors into the palais . |
| 28 | In December 1990 it came to the other directors ' knowledge that M and another manager , Elizabeth Melon , the software sales manager , intended to start a new company and to take over the distribution of the Boeing software . |
| 29 | When it came to the major events in the life of that other world outside Baldersdale , such as Christmas , the celebrations were muted , to say the least . |
| 30 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |