Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requested the International Law Commission to prepare a report on which discussions would be based . |
| 2 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 3 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 4 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 5 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 6 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 7 | Stephen said this very seriously but for some reason it made the wedge-faced sergeant guffaw . |
| 8 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 9 | As he pulled it slowly free it caught the weak January sunshine and Tippy strained against the bonds that held her . |
| 10 | Satan ran back and forth on the line a few times , snout quivering as it tasted the delicious scent trace . |
| 11 | It condemned the 1812 constitution root and branch and suggesting a return to the ‘ traditional ’ constitution . |
| 12 | The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links . |
| 13 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 14 | It judged the main discipline problem facing teachers to be not the rare serious incidents of physical aggression , but the cumulative disruptive effects of relatively trivial but persistent misbehaviour . |
| 15 | As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark . |
| 16 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 17 | It showed the young Aberdeen footballer , Eoin Jess , being attended to , presumably by a qualified member of the club 's medical team , and being ‘ helped to his feet ’ as your caption noted , despite having a broken ankle . |
| 18 | It abolished the Inner London Education Authority ( see Chapter 6 ) transferring its responsibilities from April 1990 to the inner London boroughs and the City of London . |
| 19 | This is because it raised the real sterling exchange rate , rendering ‘ marginal ’ manufacturing exports uncompetitive . |
| 20 | On Nov. 15 it ordered the French car group Renault to repay some F 12,000 million ( approximately equivalent to USdollars 1,900 million as Nov. 13 , 1989 ) of state aid received since 1988 , having already demanded the repayment of F 111,200,000 from the Peugeot group in respect of a cheap credit deal . |
| 21 | It shelved the Clean Air Bill in 1987 , but will tackle some problems in forthcoming Environmental Protection Bill . |
| 22 | Sponsored by the EC , it followed the US-initiated Washington conference in January [ see p. 38730 ] , with a further conference scheduled for Tokyo in autumn 1992 . |
| 23 | and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom . |
| 24 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 25 | It included the Monetary Co-operation Fund and it created a European Currency Unit ( ECU ) , made up of a trade-weighted ‘ basket ’ of currencies , as a measure for certain EC activities , including for example , the ‘ intervention price ’ under CAP . |
| 26 | Many a time had Preston 's youthful slumbers been disturbed by the sound of the deluge from Nan 's bedroom window as it hit the corrugated iron roof of their garden shed and the wild feline howls as their coitus was so balefully interrupted . |
| 27 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 28 | This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway . |
| 29 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 30 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |