Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 3 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 4 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 5 | In Genet 's case it produced among other things Prisoner of Love , a record of the time he spent with the Black Panthers 's in the US and Palestinian soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon . |
| 6 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 7 | After the van had been loaded it drove to another loading bay and backed up against a second wagon . |
| 8 | Despite the involvement of the BBC in its establishment , when broadcasting began in Tanganyika it came under direct government control through the Social Development Department . |
| 9 | If it came to straightforward riot control , the most appropriate force would probably be the 12,000-strong People 's Police Alert units , under the control of the ministry of the interior . |
| 10 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 11 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 12 | It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side . |
| 13 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 14 | Even if it worked for senior house officer appointments it would not work for registrar appointments . |
| 15 | It looked like that duffel bag of yours , and it was heavy . |
| 16 | The climate might seem sub-tropical if one is used to taking naturist breaks in Siberia but otherwise it felt like normal swimming-pool temperature to me . |
| 17 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 18 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 19 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |
| 20 | Once the constraints on local authority capital expenditure began to bite it cooperated with private housing development on inner-area sites . |
| 21 | It sounded like some cowboy duel . |
| 22 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 23 | But it ran with each school area , you know , Berry , Grimness , Marketthorpe and so on , and now of course the total areas as one but I think perhaps it would be permissible to somebody with local parentage maybe not resident in the area . |