Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contacted E. D. Morel , whose Congo Association had been a model of effective agitation ; Normal Angell , the best known public advocate of pacifism ; and Ramsay MacDonald , who had resigned the leadership of the Labour party when it agreed to vote for the war credits . |
| 2 | The EC Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , warned that the UK would be damaged and isolated if it failed to participate in the treaty . |
| 3 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 4 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 5 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 6 | As in the first phase of its activity , it sought to rely on a mix of massive public protest with occasional more direct forms of action . |
| 7 | This is partly because , as we have seen , the Court of Appeal showed no inclination to formulate a coherent set of sentencing aims for the guidance of sentencers , and partly because the self-regulatory mechanisms on which it sought to rely in the pursuit of its more limited policy objectives were themselves seriously defective . |
| 8 | Naturally enough , the new , faster , mode of transport acted to reduce trade rather than to increase it and the mill suffered declining fortunes until it ceased to operate as a flour mill shortly after World War II . |
| 9 | There is now a wide variety of special hardware and software for handicapped people , much of it designed to work with the BBC , Archimedes and IBM PC-compatible computers commonly used in schools , though it is equally applicable to adults . |
| 10 | In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin . |
| 11 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 12 | It tried to jump off the table and had to be held firmly so that Sophie could freeze the surrounding area before lancing it . |
| 13 | The decision to maintain the acceptance of a long-standing invitation to go on Mr. Byrne 's show in Dublin on Friday night was prompted by the opportunity that it afforded to speak to the people of the Republic of Ireland about terrorism and the response of a democratic society . |
| 14 | In his eyes it came to rank on a par with his Education White Paper of 1943 . |
| 15 | it came to seem after a while like a place of recuperation . |
| 16 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 17 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 18 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 19 | The sheriff ran his eye over the pile of guns , ammunition pouches and knives , till it came to rest on a radio transmitter . |
| 20 | It seemed to float above the town , particularly when one approached from the south , from the flats , and as you climbed Steep Hill and came nearer , so it became less of a mirage and more of a stone reality . |
| 21 | It seemed to bow in the centre ; for one terrible second she thought that it was going to split . |
| 22 | It seemed to leap off the glossy surface of the black lough , it seemed to echo off the Inishowen shore , it rang in Rory 's ears . |
| 23 | But it seemed to echo in the quiet of the hall , becoming meaningless , a sonorous groan of a word . |
| 24 | There were also several coloured photographs of the villa ‘ La Felicità ’ ; all taken from a low angle , so that it seemed to tower against the sky ; a place where the owners might appear on the battlements to a flourish of trumpets and a cry of heralds . |
| 25 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 26 | Incredibly enough , it seemed to end with a choice . |
| 27 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 28 | At one point the bag rose so high it seemed to disappear into the night . |
| 29 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 30 | It seemed to work at the time . |