Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her voice came to his ears it denied the ordinariness of her clothes and the simplicity suggested by her powderless face and loose lying hair , for her tone was crisp , each word clear . |
| 2 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 3 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 4 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 5 | On Afghanistan it welcomed the latest initiative by the UN Secretary General to find a political solution , and supported " the Afghan mujaheddin 's efforts to form a broad-based government " . |
| 6 | For most of England , it was a triumph , but in Dorchester it sapped the life out of their pious busyness . |
| 7 | Therefore , whilst in theory the compact could be approved by a simple majority , in practice it required the removal of the anti-nuclear clauses from the Constitution , a process which required a 75 per cent vote in its favour . |
| 8 | If it needed a car it borrowed the Army 's one . |
| 9 | In other words it denoted the duly consecrated and divinely endorsed king . |
| 10 | In the United States it remained the case that no new nuclear generators had been ordered since 1978 . |
| 11 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
| 12 | In effect it gave the UK all the frequencies needed for a nationwide Carfax service on a dedicated lattice . |
| 13 | In the long term it committed the papacy to active government . |
| 14 | For the longer term it envisaged the strengthening of civil liberties , a ‘ stage-by-stage transition to a market system ’ , international cooperation and democratisation of the party itself . |
| 15 | As normative reporting it justified the " utility of poverty " theory of low wages which was associated with a mercantile concern with low export prices . |
| 16 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 17 | But helped by the wind it cleared the hump in the middle of the fairway , bounced high off the forward slope and ran through the narrow gap between the bunkers . |
| 18 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 19 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 20 | So for a second it seemed the most natural thing in the world when the ships airlock suddenly opened , and I stepped out of my cabin to see Sergia framed in the lock , with two male Ardakkeans behind her . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | To the north the Corridor had a sea coast of 76 km ; to the south it had the river Notec and the Notec canal . |
| 23 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 24 | The shorter prologue of Lex Salica states that With God 's help it pleased the Franks and their nobility and they agreed that they ought to prohibit all escalations of quarrels for the preservation of enthusiasm for peace among themselves ; and because they excelled other neighbouring peoples by force of arms , so they should excel them in legal authority , with the result that criminal cases might be concluded in a manner appropriate to the type of complaint . |
| 25 | In co-operation with Finsbury Borough Council it established the first ‘ sheltered ’ work-room where ‘ elderly workers could be employed for two hours a day , on small assembling and packing jobs provided by local firms , paying the fair rate for the work completed ’ . |
| 26 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
| 27 | If the bull passed into Derbyshire it remained the property of the donor . |
| 28 | After Stalin 's fall it became the Road of the Heroes and then was changed to the Road of Youth . |
| 29 | When the European Parliament 's regional policy committee last carried out a study in Northern Ireland it produced the Martin report , which resulted in £63m for housing , he added . |
| 30 | During the war it became the seat of the Nazi occupiers , including the infamous Nazis Heydrich and Frank . |