Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She released her hair from its restraining band ; it tumbled in heavy red-gold waves past her shoulder-blades , and she shampooed it with her favourite herbal shampoo . |
| 2 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 3 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 25 reported that some government officials and members of the armed forces had welcomed the creation of the Forum , provided that it complied with strict government guidelines on political behaviour . |
| 4 | You will find it sold under various brand names . |
| 5 | Rules was decorated like a Victorian library ; it smelled of superior malt whiskies and very old leather . |
| 6 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 7 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 8 | The municipal-bond market has only just got over the jolt it received from federal tax changes in 1986 that removed tax breaks for some large buyers of new issues , notably banks and insurance companies . |
| 9 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 10 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 11 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 12 | It came from green windscreen visors with ‘ Sharon & charles ’ printed on , the ‘ Charles ’ always on the driver 's side . |
| 13 | It consisted of large earthenware pots stacked on top of each other on their sides so that the mouths all pointed one way like a battery of guns . |
| 14 | The New York-based Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp plans to invest up to $300m in the development of local Hungarian telephone companies , installing up to 200,000 new telephone lines , and it also plans to invest the money it raised in long-distance telephone ventures . |
| 15 | It began with seven mortar rounds in quick succession , then shelling , often at the rate of one a minute for five hours with no let-up . |
| 16 | It catered for three Wehrmacht officers , the Danish research engineer and his chief assistant , and a young SS officer who was the Dane 's personal security escort . |
| 17 | If free-market conditions had generally prevailed , and if the BEA had got all the investment resources it required at low interest rates , this conclusion would be unassailable . |
| 18 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 19 | It went to all procedure holders . |
| 20 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 21 | Fortunately today recordings of period music are now widely available , much of it performed on authentic period instruments . |
| 22 | It sounded like Purple Rain Falls Again . |
| 23 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 24 | It stood under some beech trees , between a row of cottages and a battered church . |
| 25 | It had limited access , it had planning permission for only 11,000 sq.ft. , and it stood on ancient water ponds that covered almost half the site . |