Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It saddled liberalism with the problem of generals in politics and the mystique of the guerrilla . |
| 2 | And , from 1911 to 1919 , it secured its position as the women artists ' association in Germany , it got funding from the state , became fully accepted as an association , and continued its activities for furthering the professionalism of women . |
| 3 | It sought consolation in the belief that this danger was overwhelmingly counterbalanced by the enhanced credibility of the American nuclear deterrent . |
| 4 | At the outset of the meeting , the Bank put forward its proposals in relation to Job Security and highlighted the main areas in which it sought agreement with the Association . |
| 5 | It did not mean the burglary was not talked about over Christmas lunch — it certainly was ; it became part of the event , and is now alluded to as ‘ Do you remember when … etc. etc . ’ |
| 6 | STEVEN has followed the rise of the drug in the North East since it became part of the club scene in 1989 he says its popularity has soared since 1991 . |
| 7 | Once this was understood , it became part of the pattern and both Wilson and Teresa and even the landlord 's son , who slept in the garret , all sighed at the disturbance then turned over and went back to sleep . |
| 8 | An example of this sort of difficulty in English law is Launchbury v. Morgans in which the House of Lords declined to extend the vicarious liability of the owner of a car for negligence of its driver because it lacked information about the impact this would have on the insurance industry . |
| 9 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 10 | It may also be evaluated more specifically in terms of : how effectively and efficiently it produced evidence about the state of Art teaching in the school ; how reliable and valid that evidence was ; how validly that evidence was interpreted in arriving at the conclusions embodied in the final report ; and the extent to which the review process was an effective means of motivating those involved to act upon its conclusions . |
| 11 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 12 | Finally , it made sense with the gallery 's affairs already disrupted by the construction , to seize the opportunity to restore the original museum , reinstall the collection , and landscape the surrounding grounds . |
| 13 | Sara 's story made sense ; it made sense in the context of Alfred 's bizarre existence . |
| 14 | It involved work on the quayside in which the steel pipe , seven metres long and used for lifting , had to be slotted onto a plate prior to it being hoisted into position by a crane and welded . |
| 15 | It created alarm amongst the planning profession , partly because of its substantive proposals but also partly because of its abrasive style . |
| 16 | Grain merchants doubled the price of maize meal , the national staple , at the beginning of June ; the second major price increase since February , it drew criticism from the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 17 | First , it drew attention to the need for a balance between public and private spending . |
| 18 | This was the first major investigation of the working of the 1944 Education Act ( see Chapter 4 ) , and it cast doubt on the effectiveness of the Act in reducing social-class-based inequalities in education . |
| 19 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 20 | There were some suggestions that a lower rate of population increase , from the decline in the UK birth rate after 1964 , was a cause of economic decline , as it reduced demand for the purchase of consumer durables . |
| 21 | She was making for the telephone box outside the Broken Dolls Hospital when she heard the puttering of a motorcycle engine as it reduced speed in the gutter behind her . |
| 22 | The resulting fall in food prices was beneficial for wage-earners , but it caused unemployment in the countryside and emigration abroad and to British towns . |
| 23 | Soaked and tattered , crimson and black , it flopped arm-over-leg to the floor like some discarded overcoat or the eviscerated pelt of some large animal , with only the head intact . |
| 24 | The hirer sued the owner of the excavator as vicariously liable for the driver 's negligence , and the owner set up clause 8 of the contract as a defence , on the basis that it transferred liability for the driver 's actions to the hirer . |
| 25 | It played music from the future . |
| 26 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 27 | It noted unanimity on the need to take practical steps towards the restoration of exchanges and co-operation in the economic , trade , scientific , technological , transportation and cultural fields " in order to normalize Sino-Vietnamese relations gradually " . |
| 28 | It added weight to the criticism that the selectors may have been too hasty in ignoring this race as the final trial . |
| 29 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 30 | The Commission 's report was perhaps the turning point , for while it paid respect to the management it found ‘ to be totally dedicated to the railway with a high degree of pride in the service which came before financial reward in importance ’ , it made thought-provoking recommendations about management style and the need to set clearer financial objectives . |