Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seemed a fair inference that such reference books as Hereward Marr possessed would be grouped together there . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 12 | It gave a clear message that Courtaulds Aerospace meant business in Germany , he said . |
| 13 | It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance . |
| 14 | It had a pepper-pot effect that did not represent a comprehensive approach to urban regeneration . |
| 15 | The society will argue at the full hearing that it had a legitimate expectation that it would be consulted by the council . |
| 16 | And though the kitchen was small , it had an adjoining storeroom that provided Helen with the opportunity of creating a utility area . |
| 17 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 18 | It reflected a central theme that common historical and cultural affinities be forged into an instrument of unity and development to promote closer political and economic integration and co-operation in regional and international affairs . |
| 19 | So typically Brown — a great line up the overhanging heart of the Main Face , it struck a masterly note that could n't be ignored . |
| 20 | Late last year , it published a consultative document that could pave the way for legislation to replace the leasehold system with an alternative called Commonhold . |
| 21 | I had to admit that , given my experiences of the evening , it remained a logical possibility that there might be some kind of entity out there skulking in some dark corner of the Cathedral , but somehow I thought not . |