Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1986 Act was seen by many as a missed opportunity in that it failed to state in positive terms that there was a right to protest peacefully . |
| 2 | ‘ Precatory ’ had become central ; but not in the useful way in which it became defined in English law , to denote words where the testator 's intention was a matter for dispute . |
| 3 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 4 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 5 | And it came to pass in those days , that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . |
| 6 | A cheque book and an airline ticket — that is all it needed to bathe in that heat so far away . |
| 7 | It started raining in sparkling sheets , the technicians pouring water down from above his eyeline onto him . |
| 8 | It looked mishapen in this light , almost as if something was eating away at it . |
| 9 | I took hold of the snow hook , but to release it meant hauling in some slack on the line . |
| 10 | It did exist in those parts of ‘ modernizing ’ industry which were part of the engineering industry and involved skilled labour in manufacture , as distinct from the Fordist production practices of process plants . |
| 11 | In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated . |
| 12 | The slick , which formed after the vessel hit rocks and broke in two as it waited to dock in heavy seas off La Coruna , was being driven East into the Bay of Biscay towards popular resorts like San Sesbastian . |
| 13 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 14 | The twin caricatures of the King hoarding the nation 's wealth and the Prince dissipating it had appeared in other Gillray etchings , but nowhere with greater effect than in these two productions of July 1792 . |
| 15 | By 1789 it had assumed in most respects its nineteenth-century form . |
| 16 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 17 | The moon squatted above the mountains hugely , as if it had descended in majestic importance to pay a visit to this district , these mountains , this town only . |
| 18 | Anyway I was told it had to finish in thirteen weeks . |
| 19 | Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations . |
| 20 | After the judgment , Price Waterhouse issued a statement saying that it had acted in good faith according to its understanding of the conflict of interest rules at the time . |
| 21 | The Roman Research Trust declined to be interviewed , but a spokesman denied that it had acted in any way improperly . |
| 22 | The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places . |
| 23 | The process of individual care planning not only promoted contact with families but also with the wider social support network , including the community at large and the facilities which it had to offer in non-stigmatized settings . |
| 24 | The platform adopted by the convention on July 13 was very much in Clinton 's moderate image , and was devoid of many of the minority-related positions which it had included in recent years . |
| 25 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |