Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How it operated provided an intriguing study to which much detailed work was devoted . |
| 2 | In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient . |
| 3 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 4 | The High Court in Dublin sparked a huge controversy on Feb. 17 when it ruled that a 14-year-old girl , who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by the father of a friend , could not travel to the United Kingdom for an abortion . |
| 5 | It recommended that every possible assistance and encouragement should be given to the railway in pursuit of its aim . |
| 6 | It recommended that the second stage of the process towards EMU , as envisaged in the 1989 Delors plan [ see p. 36598 ] , should begin on Jan. 1 , 1993 , and should be as short as possible . |
| 7 | It recommended that the preliminary hearing be abolished , that the district judge be required to conduct the hearing on an interventionist basis , that he or she be required to give reasons for a decision and explain the rules of law and that specific guidance should be provided on the expenses recoverable for small claims . |
| 8 | It presumed that the particular classroom layouts and patterns of organization commended would promote children 's learning more effectively than any others . |
| 9 | Tragedy involves the past , and it arose when the Greek awareness of time was becoming clearer and stronger . |
| 10 | It maintained that no new code for the assessment of compensation or the collection of betterment would be adequate if this individualistic system remained . |
| 11 | The day after Marlene Dietrich 's death , it reported that the legendary actress ‘ had German , French , British and American newspapers delivered each morning , and devoured them while drinking Fortnum 's Prince of Wales tea ’ . |
| 12 | It found that the small South Island-based tribe had an exclusive right to fish virtually all of the South Island coastline , as well as the right to a reasonable share of the country 's 200-mile deep-water fishing zone . |
| 13 | And it found that the Daily Star advert had no effect whatsoever on record sales . |
| 14 | It transpired that a large quantity of spent shells from a plane ahead went through the nose and had struck Ed . |
| 15 | It transpired that the whole street had been summoned to hear the declaration . |
| 16 | It transpired that the left side of the nose splitter has been damaged , perhaps when Baldi had clipped Brundle 's Jaguar in one of his passing attempts , perhaps as a result of ‘ trapped ’ vibration from a high-speed engine misfire . |
| 17 | So it transpired that the elusive Zephro Carnelian was a trusted roving agent for the Ordo Hydra . |
| 18 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 19 | It transpired that the previous evening students from the Asrama Merdeka led by Wikana along with student followers of Sjahrir presented an ultimatum to Sukarno : you must proclaim independence immediately . |
| 20 | The same day it transpired that an additional factor had been the judge 's decision to dismiss " public interest immunity " certificates which had been signed by four senior ministers and which would have prevented the disclosure of certain information about the case . |
| 21 | More strikingly , it demonstrated that a toroidal discharge in a toroidal magnetic field established its own stable configuration . |
| 22 | Western diplomats in Belgrade described the fraud as a " fatal assault " on Yugoslavia 's standing with Western creditors , since it demonstrated that the federal government could not control the money supply . |
| 23 | But it helped that the one Test forward was Paul Ackford who , still less than a year into his international career , is a phenomenon , consistently winning his own line-out ball , securing kick-offs and loose possession , and cover-tackling more in the manner of a flanker than a lock . |
| 24 | It proposed that the minimum threshold for representation in the assembly should be " relatively low " to allow for the widest possible representation , and that decisions within the assembly should be by a two-thirds majority . |
| 25 | It estimated that the full implementation of debt relief plans would remove up to US$6,000 million from outstanding debt ( around 8 per cent ) , but still leave the region owing the equivalent of 106 per cent of annual gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 26 | However , it was linked by Mrs Thatcher , who suggested that it signified that the Irish Republic was less committed than Britain in bringing the IRA to account for their crimes : ‘ You take these murders of these four people today alongside the decisions in the Supreme Court not to extradite those accused of violent crime — and one is very , very depressed ’ . |
| 27 | It came as the Labour leadership put its weight behind a tactical Commons move which threatens to wreck the Maastricht bill or force the Government to accept the social chapter . |
| 28 | When , in August 1920 , the threat of British military intervention against Soviet troops advancing into Poland , triggered a massive upsurge of anti-war sentiment , it seemed that a new wave of revolutionary pacifism might erupt , taking up where the crisis of January 1918 had left off . |
| 29 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 30 | Then it seemed that a new cycle of muttering was beginning . |