Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence at common law of the tort of enticement of a servant has already been noticed , but though to modern eyes it involved A persuading B to break his contract with C its historical origins lie more in status than in contract . |
| 2 | Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work . |
| 3 | The House refused demands it stripped Muawad of his parliamentary immunity . |
| 4 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 5 | As the ‘ five chapters ’ Elizabeth and Ivy had already seen it , and after one or two criticisms it had Ivy 's imprimatur . |
| 6 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 7 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 8 | In its early days it attracted support from a wide range of anti-Francoist groups , including Catholic workers ' organizations , but subsequently it came increasingly under the control of the communist party . |
| 9 | There 's a walled cemetery on one side and well in those days it had railings round the cemetery on the other side . |
| 10 | In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU . |
| 11 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 12 | For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses . |
| 13 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 14 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 15 | Even Saudi Arabia , which encouraged its citizens to give money to the Afghan rebel cause — for many years it matched America 's covert financing — is now trying to stop the flow . |
| 16 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 17 | Anyways it kept sort of almost conventional and now it 's essentially A four . |
| 18 | Like all good pantomimes it scrambled history and myth with some good topical jokes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That part at least is uncontested , but for various complex legal reasons it took Thomas , an executor of the will , nine months to get probate . |
| 21 | By controlling inflation it created the conditions , by lowering taxes it created incentives . |
| 22 | Although it caused mutations — frequently devastating and biocidic ( causing the death of life , as in biocide ) — on very rare occasions it spurred evolution . |
| 23 | Last year Astra revealed the results of a two-year study it had conducted on ranitidine ; at high doses it promoted cancers in the stomach . |