Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To retain its hegemonic dominance it criminalised the inner city uprisings of disenchanted youth , marginalised the youth of the black communities and removed trade-union struggles from the field of civil law to the arena of public disorder . |
| 2 | It requested the International Law Commission to prepare a report on which discussions would be based . |
| 3 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 4 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 5 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 6 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 7 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 8 | On Aug. 20 the Moldavian government ruled these secession moves unconstitutional , and two days later it outlawed the Popular Front-style Gagauz Khalky ( People 's ) Movement . |
| 9 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
| 10 | Stephen said this very seriously but for some reason it made the wedge-faced sergeant guffaw . |
| 11 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 12 | As he pulled it slowly free it caught the weak January sunshine and Tippy strained against the bonds that held her . |
| 13 | Satan ran back and forth on the line a few times , snout quivering as it tasted the delicious scent trace . |
| 14 | It cost the original owner £200,000 new . |
| 15 | The coach arrived early in the afternoon , and as it approached the front entrance Silas went out to meet it . |
| 16 | It condemned the 1812 constitution root and branch and suggesting a return to the ‘ traditional ’ constitution . |
| 17 | The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links . |
| 18 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 19 | It judged the main discipline problem facing teachers to be not the rare serious incidents of physical aggression , but the cumulative disruptive effects of relatively trivial but persistent misbehaviour . |
| 20 | As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark . |
| 21 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 22 | It joined the various Curtiss Robins , de Havilland Moths , Fairchilds , Bellancas , Fokker Super Universals and Lockheed Electras , which all were engaged in opening-up the countryside . |
| 23 | From nineteen fifty one to fifty two it re-graduated the progressive tax rates , raising the bottom rate from six percent in the same threshold of a hundred and fifty per capita per annum , and lowering the top rate to twenty five percent . |
| 24 | It showed the young Aberdeen footballer , Eoin Jess , being attended to , presumably by a qualified member of the club 's medical team , and being ‘ helped to his feet ’ as your caption noted , despite having a broken ankle . |
| 25 | It abolished the Inner London Education Authority ( see Chapter 6 ) transferring its responsibilities from April 1990 to the inner London boroughs and the City of London . |
| 26 | This is because it raised the real sterling exchange rate , rendering ‘ marginal ’ manufacturing exports uncompetitive . |
| 27 | On Nov. 15 it ordered the French car group Renault to repay some F 12,000 million ( approximately equivalent to USdollars 1,900 million as Nov. 13 , 1989 ) of state aid received since 1988 , having already demanded the repayment of F 111,200,000 from the Peugeot group in respect of a cheap credit deal . |
| 28 | It shelved the Clean Air Bill in 1987 , but will tackle some problems in forthcoming Environmental Protection Bill . |
| 29 | It released the 0.5-micron CMOS 5L process , which uses five metal wiring layers to achieve ASICs of up to 1.3m usable gates , and ASIC design kits supporting the tools from Cadence Design Systems Inc , Mentor Graphics Corp and Synopsys Inc . |
| 30 | It released the 0.5-micron CMOS 5L process , which uses five metal wiring layers to achieve ASICs of up to 1.3m usable gates , and ASIC design kits supporting the tools from 20 vendors , including Cadence Design Systems Inc , Mentor Graphics Corp and Synopsys Inc . |