Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 2 | The CNAA 's procedures , its concern with the total academic environment in which its courses were offered , had led it — at a time when its relationships with the institutions were under intensive discussion — to a position in which it could directly influence the management and operation of an institution where it perceived weaknesses , as well as the institution 's own relationships with governors and the local authority . |
| 3 | It once owned 1,000 acres in what was then Ceylon , where it created plantations to process palm oil ( at that time the main raw material in candles ) , and it built an entire village , Bromborough Pool on Merseyside , for employees . |
| 4 | Charles Nupen , a strike mediator , announced on Jan. 26 that a settlement between the two sides had been reached whereby SATS agreed to recognize SARHWU and to negotiate wages and conditions of service with the union in areas where it obtained registrations under the Labour Relations Act . |
| 5 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 6 | Although it took years rather than months , new general managers were appointed throughout the NHS and steadily reorganised their Health Authorities along general management lines . |
| 7 | Although it caused mutations — frequently devastating and biocidic ( causing the death of life , as in biocide ) — on very rare occasions it spurred evolution . |
| 8 | Although it contained elements of Baal and Astarte worship , it was essentially monotheistic . |
| 9 | Lewes instituted a pretty strict regime which at times tended to be resented , although it brought results . |
| 10 | In this regard reference may ‘ within the programmes of study teachers will be free to determine the detail of what should be taught ’ , although it urged teachers to prepare schemes of work to ensure consistency within a school . |
| 11 | One box in Lincolnshire had the manifestations of a poltergeist or mischievous ghost apparent in the building but it was of a gentle nature and although it moved cups of tea and generally showed its mischievous attributes , it never hurt anybody and was not vicious or dangerous . |
| 12 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 13 | And eventually you 'd notice that it had petals around the horizon . |
| 14 | Also , we were informed by a local that it had avgas . |
| 15 | Documents discovered in a raid on offices of the Salsabeel computer company in Heliopolis showed , he said , that the group was financed from abroad and that it had links with Islamic investment companies in Egypt and the Moslem Brotherhood . |
| 16 | Now that the contents of everything have to be described in great detail on the packaging , they duly told the French people that it contained preservatives . |
| 17 | Towards the end of the novel , the narrator records : " What Antoine needed at that time was to find someone capable of proving to him that his past was worthy of being admired , that it contained elements worthy of gratitude and friendship . " |
| 18 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) If the party tendering the document did what was reasonably sufficient to give the other party notice of the conditions , and if the other party knew that there was writing or printing on the document , but did not know that it contained conditions , then the conditions will become the terms of the contract between them . |
| 20 | When chemists vapourised potassium nitrate and trapped it an argon matrix , however , they were surprised to discover that it contained molecules with the chemical formula KNO 3 . |
| 21 | The machine is being pitched at banks and telephone companies ; it also said it plans to make available ruggedised versions of the 340 and 350 systems and servers ; and that it cut prices 17% on the Powerserver 950 , and 14% on the 400Mb disk drive for the RS/6000 . |
| 22 | Erm I , I think that erm the er concern that erm we all have relating to local government view erm is er that it caused changes in |
| 23 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 24 | Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them . |
| 25 | This Act was important in that it eased restrictions in the field of public service transport , but critics felt that it would weaken the protection necessary for essentially unprofitable bus routes , mainly those in rural areas . |
| 26 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 27 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 28 | But there was a conflicting theory that it ate leaves . |
| 29 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 30 | That it took Hibs 37 minutes to record their first shot at Ally Maxwell vouches for the minuscule depth of their ambition and explains why they were , in the end , beaten hollow . |