Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | To retain its hegemonic dominance it criminalised the inner city uprisings of disenchanted youth , marginalised the youth of the black communities and removed trade-union struggles from the field of civil law to the arena of public disorder . |
2 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
3 | From nineteen fifty one to fifty two it re-graduated the progressive tax rates , raising the bottom rate from six percent in the same threshold of a hundred and fifty per capita per annum , and lowering the top rate to twenty five percent . |
4 | It is scarcely surprising that when the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries examined this problem it found a ‘ lack of clarity and certainty and purpose ’ among what it called the sponsoring government departments . |
5 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
6 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
7 | It had the basic reference texts of an Archdeacon and a fair amount of theology which dated the Archdeacon 's interest in that subject to thirty years previously . |
8 | Begun in 1789 and finishes in 1824 , it replaced the original University buildings dating back to 1583 . |
9 | The second station , the Home Service , was more ‘ serious ’ : for example it carried the main news bulletins that naturally attracted huge wartime audiences . |