Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , belatedly in keeping with its stand on law and order , it tabled a new clause that disallows , in computing taxable income , expenses which themselves constitute the commission of a criminal offence . |
| 2 | It solidified the tentative ideas that had been evolving in Whitehall since the drafting of the 1952 Global Strategy paper ; and it was , in many respects , ahead of thinking in Washington , where traditional military orthodoxy still held sway . |
| 3 | On the one hand , it sought the national renewal that the Resistance and de Gaulle himself had talked about — a more egalitarian , modern , and productive society and a new republic . |
| 4 | Developed by Adobe Systems and launched onto an unsuspecting world in 1984 by Apple with its LaserWriter printer it became the underlying reason that desktop publishing succeeded . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the Rokkaku cult spread from the USA and UK into Australia , Tasmania , New Zealand , Italy , Belgium and Germany , such that it became the ideal barrier-breaker that brought flyers together . |
| 6 | It became the common view that any British retailer attempting to expand abroad signalled a deterioration in its fortunes , with the consequent lack of interest from the City . |
| 7 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 8 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 9 | A dark cloud rose from Carey 's head and was swatted away by a wave ; it made a little slick that thinned and trailed out to sea . |
| 10 | An organisation once the size of a Station now resided in one small corner of the airfield at Wyton but it maintained the excellent tradition that saw it produce many thousands of aircrew . |
| 11 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |
| 12 | Not simply was a market the only effective mechanism for the exchange of commodities and services in a large-scale modern society ; it was also the foundation of democracy , as it provided the economic independence that made a dictatorship impossible . |
| 13 | Maryland was organized as a late and formal version of the feudal system , the Virginian way of life was always expected to reflect some memories of the heirs of the Elizabethan gentlemen and seadogs who had launched it , and Massachusetts and the other New England colonies that emerged from it retained a moral earnestness that sometimes survived the loss of the faith that had initially inspired the earnestness . |
| 14 | Hence , not only did this decision reduce the value of the company ( i.e. post-dividend compared to pre-dividend ) , but by reducing the capital the company could invest , it reduced the future earnings that could be expected by the shareholders . |
| 15 | It seemed a fair inference that such reference books as Hereward Marr possessed would be grouped together there . |
| 16 | It seemed a forlorn hope that any taxi-driver , especially with the limitation of petrol-rationing , should consider a fare which would take him seven miles out of the town on New Year 's Eve , but incredible luck was with us ! |
| 17 | It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 . |
| 18 | When TV Times readers voted Crawford 1973 's Funniest Man on TV in the magazine 's Top 10 Awards , it confirmed the phenomenal success that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had become in a short time . |
| 19 | It hid the shamed colour that stormed into her cheeks as she sat up , half turning away from him . |
| 20 | The brilliance of the recent verbal firework display he put on at Westminster enchanted his party — just as it alarmed the Labour Party that John Smith proved such an easy target for him . |
| 21 | Darwin 's theory was controversial because it challenged the conventional view that the Creator designed each species , and implied that the human race was just another animal . |
| 22 | It observed the following week that the police had been very co-operative . |
| 23 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 24 | It was a momentary thought , quickly dispelled when Sara took Hartley in her arms ; but from it crystallized the firm decision that both Hartley and any other children they might have should be spared a city childhood , and be ‘ bred up from earliest infancy in the simplicity of peasants , their food , dress , and habits completely rustic ’ . |
| 25 | It repeated the familiar rules that borders may not be changed unilaterally or by force , that gains made by force should not stand and that national rights should be respected . |
| 26 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 27 | One reason was that it incorporated a most-favoured-nation rule that precluded bilateral deals and thus limited collective agreements to the willingness of the least cooperative member . |
| 28 | When plugged in , a tongue would stick out of the apparatus ; additionally it contained an electric device that was intended to block television reception in the immediate area . |
| 29 | Huxley had been suspicious of evolutionism because he could see no plausible explanation of how species might change , and he welcomed Darwin 's theory with open arms because it offered a new hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to treat the origin of species as a problem susceptible to natural explanation . |
| 30 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |