Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |
| 2 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 3 | With the exception of a few short magazine contributions and the revision of the serial The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved for publication in book form , it brought to an end a career in prose fiction which had seen the publication of 14 novels and some 40 stories , and earned Hardy a place among the greatest 19th-century novelists . |
| 4 | It brought to an end the era of amphibians and it was introduced by the next great group to appear , the reptiles . |
| 5 | It set as a target the ownership and operation of six such restaurants in the Cheshire area by the end of 1988 . |