Example sentences of "it [vb past] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 2 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 3 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 4 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 5 | It rippled in the light breeze like a sea . |
| 6 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 7 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 8 | He went on to add that some of the ancient magic could still be found in its raw state , recognisable — to the initiated — by the eightfold shape it made in the crystalline structure of space-time . |
| 9 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 10 | Yet even on the tapes of the talks , considerably less gilded than the memoranda , it let in a little light for a moment . |
| 11 | The current deteriorating standards of living and acute social problems that owe so much of their origin to the decline in the economy suggest that the inheritance at the time of Independence of a highly developed mining sector was a very mixed blessing : the lack of balance it occasioned in the economic base has resulted in serious economic and social disequilibrium with the locus of control resting as much with decisions made in the London Metal Market as with policies established in Lusaka . |
| 12 | When it stopped in a remote area police pounced and arrested the robbers as they off-loaded the cargo . |
| 13 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 14 | It was short , like Mr Hyde , and it moved in the same light , quick , active way . |
| 15 | It occurred in the Foreign Office and the Foreign Office , and I personally take full responsibility for it this afternoon before the House . |
| 16 | The car 's powerful engine began to tick in the silence as it cooled in the mild evening breeze . |
| 17 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The House of Lords in two subsequent cases has retreated from the position it adopted in the original litigation , by making plain that the Government must prove some damage to the national interest and that no such damage can be established where the information has already been placed in the public domain by being published abroad . |
| 20 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 21 | It reverberated in the small house . |
| 22 | It overturned in the fast lane on the twin-track road on the other side of Stowerton . |
| 23 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 24 | Whatever lies Buddie chose to tell about it , she and Frankie would tell everyone the truth : that it came in a big parcel from across the sea in America . |
| 25 | He thinks it came in the pure stuff , transparent crystals . ’ |
| 26 | It came in the 70th minute . |
| 27 | Urged on by a renewed Ibrox roar , they stormed forward in search of an equaliser , and it came in the 83rd minute . |
| 28 | It came in the 13th minute , when the defection of Dimitri Kharin from Moscow to Chelsea , cost the Russians dearly . |
| 29 | It came in the 37th minute , when he cleverly chested the ball down , and from 28 yards unleashed a fearsome , left-foot volley which flew beyond Tony Coton . |
| 30 | It came in an exquisite Spode tea service , with a silver sugar-bowl and a plateful of hot buttered toast with Gentleman 's Relish or honey , on a large melamine tray designed , Roland saw , to slot into the arms of the wheelchair . |