Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in the exercise of its inherent jurisdiction the court would not order a medical practitioner to treat his patient in a manner contrary to his clinical judgment and professional duty ; that the proper approach , pending any final decision , was for the court to consider the options available to it in exercising its inherent powers and to make such order as best served the child 's true interests , and it would be wrong to apply the principles governing the grant of interlocutory injunctions in civil proceedings ; that , further , the judge 's order was defective in that it failed to specify the precise requirements imposed on the health authority and to take sufficient account of that authority 's distribution of resources in its patient care ; and that , accordingly , the order would be set aside ( post , pp. 516B–G , 517D–F , 518E–F , H — 519C , E–H , 520B–C , E–F ) . |
| 3 | Bishop was glad it was too small to see : it made suppressing the imagined screams of the people inside that much easier . |
| 4 | Just eleven players since 1905 have appeared in Palace colours more often than Vince but , in reviewing his career with us , one is left with the feeling that , while it promised to climb the highest peaks of success , it in fact merely reached the approaches . |
| 5 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 6 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 7 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 8 | But , initially at least , it seemed to express the right kinds of sentiment . |
| 9 | I decided that , for anything I could measure to be considered part of a memory trace or engram , it needed to show the following properties . |
| 10 | When the United Kingdom had entered the EEC , it had asked the major parties to nominate representatives to the Parliament . |
| 11 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 12 | Much of it had assumed the two women were guilty . |
| 13 | There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war . |
| 14 | It had joined the growing ranks of creatures with odd numbers of limbs in Georgia . |
| 15 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 16 | The government also stressed its record of liberalizing the economy and five years of continuous growth , while Labour claimed that it had mismanaged the public finances by allowing the national debt to double . |
| 17 | wood and it had made , and it had got the four nails at the top |
| 18 | Yet not so rotten that it had obscured the carved initials at the base of the grip . |
| 19 | In 1650 , the Rump of the Long Parliament replaced the 1648 Blasphemy Act with their own far less harsh legislation , which although it continued to outlaw the extreme beliefs of disruptive fringe groups such as the Ranters , signalled a far more liberal approach on the part of the civil authorities . |
| 20 | It refused to sign the 1988 accounts when the thrift failed to meet minimum capital standards . |
| 21 | If it wanted to reject the preliminary drafts , so be it . |
| 22 | The Financial Times of June 14 reported that Malaysia had recently provided the United Kingdom government with a firm commitment that it intended to finalize the outstanding parts of a major defence package agreed with the UK in September 1988 [ see p. 36558 ] . |