Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it was this detested regime which managed to make its mark in the New World , for the successful urban renewal of Paris combined with the great prestige which the city enjoyed as a centre of art and culture drew to it Americans of all kinds . |
| 2 | In Libya the peace which flowed from state justice , impersonal , universal , was not enough for the Zuwaya : they added to it peaces of their own manufacture , tailored to the social personalities involved in particular breaches of the peace , guaranteed by specific and contingent undertakings made between Muslims . |
| 3 | I thought of it weeks ago . |
| 4 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 5 | Administrative help from Smolensk brought with it obligations , such as ‘ compulsory self-taxation ’ ( samooblozhenie ) for the peasant committees . |
| 6 | This discovery , that a combination can be stronger than a single individual , or a couple , marked a major step in humanity 's development as a species , but carried with it restrictions over sexual activity , because this leads to two people aiming to be independent from everyone else . |