Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It hid the shamed colour that stormed into her cheeks as she sat up , half turning away from him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It observed the following week that the police had been very co-operative . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 20 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 21 | Like the kitchen at the white house , it craved the special activity that would make it entire . |
| 22 | It marked the first time that an Offshore Division production platform has been used to process oil or natural gas from a third party well . |
| 23 | Following as it did the enormous publicity that surrounded the child abuse allegations in Cleveland , Nottingham , and Rochdale , Orkney Islands Council were strangely unprepared for the wide interest their own case attracted . |
| 24 | It had the additional advantage that it was well out of the way of prying headquarters staff and was being established as a forward base for the LRDG . |
| 25 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 27 | It had the exact headstock that 's on the Washburn guitars , only years and years ago . |
| 28 | To acknowledge it — as the cards insisted that she must — a portion of herself , was to recognize features which were paltry and despicable ; it forced the reluctant awareness that she was , in part at least , a smaller person than she believed herself to be . |
| 29 | Harwell had superb skills and facilities and it fitted the current zeitgeist that these be applied to the solution of industrial problems on a fee-paying basis . |
| 30 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |