Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 2 | Following an LDP conference , the party leadership announced on Sept. 19 that it planned to break away from the coalition which had backed Aquino . |
| 3 | One of its major concerns has always been the securing and protection of fundamental human rights , and it sought to build further upon the UN Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948 . |
| 4 | The sound it made rustling outside in the trees made him feel comfortable and protected . |
| 5 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 6 | It came to rest just beneath the window of the front room , inches away from where one of its occupants was sitting . |
| 7 | Thus it was welcomed because it seemed to bring together on the one hand the idealized liberalism of the l960s and 1970s — when pupils and teachers hoped to romp together through an uninhibited dance of individualized learning , projects , pupil-centred learning-situations , and an end to authoritarian concepts of knowledge — with , on the other hand , the 1980s demand for ‘ standards ’ . |
| 8 | I think it was that perpetual low cloud , it seemed to creep right into the house , and then those terrible winds . |
| 9 | Returning to the perspective of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ discussed earlier , we can call into question the extent to which going abroad can legitimately be viewed as a student strategy for maximizing opportunities in China when by necessity it implied turning away from the ‘ motherland ’ in favour of foreign countries . |
| 10 | It looked terrifying enough with the three thousand members of the Sealed Know Society trying to avoid hurting each other . |
| 11 | It meant starting early in the morning and continuing till late in the evening . |
| 12 | I asked László about the corso : ‘ Yes , it did exist here before the war and now , gradually , it is coming back , along the embankment by the international hotels . ’ |
| 13 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
| 14 | I was convinced that something had happened in our absence ; something had indeed happened — it had rained hard during the night and early morning — which was strange for that summer when we had a period of almost drought conditions . |
| 15 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 16 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 17 | It had hung limply in the cupboard for nearly three months . |
| 18 | On the contrary , there was attempts to the life of our Emir during the Iraq/Iran war because we were taking relatively trying to be neutral there , and there was a bomb attack on him , and he personally survived it , a few others died , and it had to do directly with the Iran/Iraq war . |
| 19 | The lira ended the day up around 965 to the German mark from the 976 opening and well clear of the record 980 lows it had touched earlier in the week when the vote was announced . |
| 20 | It looked as if it had gone straight over the side and into the valley . |
| 21 | Then suddenly , right out of the blue , it had gone straight down the drain . |
| 22 | It had declined substantially by the late thirties but was still a thriving place compared with the Baldersdale of today . |
| 23 | The General Secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen wrote to the Home Secretary arguing that the growth of fascism created a threat to organized labour since it had led elsewhere to the suppression and murder of trade unionists . |
| 24 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 25 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 26 | It did n't feel as cold as it had done earlier in the day . |
| 27 | Indeed , it had expired almost on the short journey home . |
| 28 | As the unsatisfactoriness of the exercise was clearly not due to any limitations on the part of the participants , it had to lie squarely in the design of the exercise itself . |
| 29 | Its green eyes caught light for a moment as it peered up at Doyle , then it had raced away into the night , a sleek , dark shape , perturbed by the presence of furtive human life on its territory . |
| 30 | It had fallen backwards into the narrow eight-feet-deep pipe while grazing at night . |