Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utterly daft and unsophisticated , it elevated Allen to the very head of the children 's table — and is sheer delight . |
| 2 | To this extent , Marxism 's universalizing narrative of the unfolding of a rational system of world history is simply a negative form of the history of European imperialism : it was Hegel , after all , who declared that ‘ Africa has no history ’ , and it was Marx who , though critical of British imperialism , concluded that the British colonization of India was ultimately for the best because it brought India into the evolutionary narrative of Western history , thus creating the conditions for future class struggle there . |
| 3 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 4 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 5 | THE Australian pack looked a mighty outfit as it blew Scotland to the four corners at both scrummage and line-out during their recent two-test series ( see pages 22 & 23 ) . |
| 6 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 7 | I do n't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money . |
| 8 | It was hard , perilous work which , by rockfall or dust , killed most of the men employed in it before their retirement age , and it left Evan with the gasping lungs of the silicosis-sufferer . |
| 9 | That was Courtaulds ' buoyant message to the market when it launched Tencel on the latest stage of its pioneering journey in December . |