Example sentences of "it [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British foreign office also showed itself more forward-looking than almost any other in the adoption of the typewriter : it appointed its first typist in 1889 and had eight by 1900 . |
| 2 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 3 | It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken . |
| 4 | Secondly , does it remain her settled intention in the emergency which has now arisen where her life may be forfeited if she does not undergo that treatment ? |
| 5 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 6 | Above all , it found its perfect vehicle in a man whom McIlvanney still asserts to be ‘ the most exciting , moving and important sportsman of the 20th century ’ , Muhammad Ali . |
| 7 | It received its best expression in that story of the Mabinogion about " The Dream of Macsen Wledig " , the dream of the Emperor Maximus . |
| 8 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 9 | The King Edward VI grammar school is one of the most ancient in the country and is known to have been an educational institution from at least 1276 , though it received its Royal Charter in 1551 . |
| 10 | At this point in the theory , the Nirvana principle is conceived of as deriving its energy from the death instincts , and the pleasure principle serves these too sometimes , and therefore it loses its former primacy in the unconscious life of man . |
| 11 | The wife said in evidence that she knew the charge was a security but did not realise it affected her own share in the house . |
| 12 | If a person is suffering from a fairly severe mental disorder and has close friends or relatives who sympathize , encourage early treatment and make full rehabilitation possible by providing a tolerant but secure home after hospitalization , then the person has a fair chance of ultimately coping with their illness without it handicapping their general performance in life too severely . |
| 13 | And the world , if it flunks its own test in the Gulf , will have no right to ask it to . |
| 14 | And er it achieved my first ambition in life to appear on television I , I do n't know wheth can you remember the Rampton enquiry |
| 15 | It flings its fine hairs in the face of the assailant , in a dense cloud . |
| 16 | I mention it to record his genuine interest in our home and later , in us as people and our way of life . |
| 17 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 18 | Potassium-argon dating can be applied to volcanic rocks such as lavas and tuffs and although difficult to measure the decay , it attains its maximum usefulness in the Middle and Early Pleistocene and can be used for a range greater than 20,000 years . |
| 19 | The monastery rebuilt the castle keep on Piel Island , whence it exported its own wool in ships built in its own dockyard there . |
| 20 | It follows his good showing in Labour 's shadow cabinet elections yesterday . |
| 21 | Parties to CITES must give the secretariat the finances with which to do its job and not oblige it to raise its own funds in ways which lead to question and criticism . ’ |
| 22 | If you look upon Art as a frill , it is pretty certain you are not letting it play its proper part in the school . |
| 23 | But no compulsion can secure that it will proceed along those lines … it can only be supplied with the knowledge and training which may guide it to seek its own solution in the better state with higher ideals . |
| 24 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 25 | The national organisation , which represents the whole of the building industry , started in 1866 when it held its initial meeting in the Durham Ox public house in Brownlow Hill . |