Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a membership of 100,000 in 1914 its numbers had doubled by 1924 and again by 1931 ; it waged vigorous self-interested campaigns on such matters as the petrol tax , the Road Fund , speed limits and compulsory insurance . |
| 2 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 3 | Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China . |
| 4 | The Kent-based house-builder , Ward Holdings , yesterday provided some backing for Countryside 's optimism when it announced much-reduced annual losses of £5.3 million , against a £14 million deficit in 1991. — PA |
| 5 | Some misunderstood him to have said that God hates infants and when this was passed around , it produced much ill feeling towards Baxter . |
| 6 | It produced several serious expressions of interest . |
| 7 | Invented in the late 18th century , it made possible large schools with a wide range of age and ability , that could be run by a small complement of teachers . |
| 8 | Built of stone with battlemented parapets , it involved intricate geometrical shaping of the masonry , and though the line was closed thirty years ago , the bridge has been preserved as an example of Victorian railway engineering . |
| 9 | The bill was approved by the House of Representatives — where the LDP had an overall majority — on Dec. 3 , even though the DSP voted against it on the grounds that it provided insufficient legislative control over the dispatch of troops . |
| 10 | It created three different kinds of school with ‘ parity of esteem ’ and children were allocated according to the result of the 11-plus examination . |
| 11 | It retained compulsory military service for whites only , and retained inequalities whereby whites received higher pensions than other races , blacks receiving least of all . |
| 12 | We gave a few outlines of schemes of work and bits and pieces of information , but I would n't have said that it caused any great feeling of self-analysis . |
| 13 | Between 15 October 1922 and 1 August 1923 , for example , it received 719,502 gold roubles from the tax in kind ( its highest source of income was 1,344,639 roubles from church treasures ) . |
| 14 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 15 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 16 | Further , it identified three main ways in which coordinators could expect to contribute to the school 's teaching programme : |
| 17 | It boosted annual net dividends by 36.5 per cent to compensate shareholders for the Chancellor 's tax change . |
| 18 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 19 | In this respect it resembled another favourite hotel of mine , the Quirinale in Rome , where I like to stay in the room where Ronald Firbank died . |
| 20 | It was all quite extraordinary ; but it was also exhilarating , in that it explored new expressive possibilities in the concerto while maintaining utter idiomatic integrity . |
| 21 | The reader knows enough about the political skills and sophistication of the Zuwaya and their rivals to resist the perhaps supercilious stereotype contained in Le Monde 's use of ‘ tribe ’ : the people far from backward or atavistic , the demand for bloodwealth ( whoever made it ) contested rather than misunderstood ; it opposed one particular notion of government with another . |
| 22 | Through its publication , the Militant , it opposed United Front tactics on the one hand and the policy of the official Labour Party leadership on the other . |
| 23 | A factory was built in Heath Street , Smethwick , on the canal and railway on the outskirts of Birmingham ; it comprised 20,000 square feet in two single-storey sheds . |
| 24 | She believes that it prevented many Labour supporters from registering on the electoral roll ( in the hope of avoiding payment ) , thus depriving Mr Kinnock of a large number of votes . |
| 25 | And so the year 1798 drew to a close , and with it came another crippling winter in a decade of crippling winters . |
| 26 | That lack of success on the acquisitions front — despite the fact it delayed other required moves into international business — has proved the agency 's saving grace . |
| 27 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 28 | For Green , the flexibility of the proposal allowed for the meeting of local demand by either or both organisations , it encouraged further co-operative endeavour between them and facilitated the WEA role over the establishment of a county federation of students as an organisational framework to help overcome the perennial difficulty of isolated university extension centres . |
| 29 | " Pictures for the People " was a grand slogan , and if it extracted some national treasures from London for display in Middlesbrough and Huddersfield , it might even do some good . |
| 30 | It based this false judgement on the need for conciliation and for restoring the fabric of industrial relations . |