Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 13 | It can not have pleased Kimon , the Spartans ' friend , any more than it pleased politicians of more obviously radical complexion . |
| 14 | The State allied with different segments of the population against the rest , all the time increasing its control , until it had funds sufficient to exercise direct coercion . |
| 15 | However , the CITUB announced that it would continue its strike until it saw guarantees of the character of the new government . |
| 16 | However there were indications that Congress would delay proceedings until it received assurances of improvements in Mexico 's human rights record and evidence of fair elections [ see below ] . |
| 17 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
| 18 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 19 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
| 20 | Parliament adopted regulations in late August 1990 which a required foreign publication to obtain an annual permit if more than 300 copies were distributed in Singapore or if it carried articles on politics " in any country in south-east Asia " . |
| 21 | Colin Chapman , however , had his doubts and was convinced that if it had barriers around it , similar to those at Monaco , Clark would never have died . |
| 22 | Even if it had maggots and things in it and it was all horrible ? ’ |
| 23 | Then it would presumably spot some potential prey and come to a standstill in mid-air as if it had brakes . |
| 24 | Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head . |
| 25 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 26 | Panamanian commercial lawyers said that such a treaty should be resisted if it contained clauses covering tax evasion , as this would destroy the country 's off-shore banking sector [ see p. 37771 ] . |
| 27 | This gives no action to Titius , but the SC allows it to be treated as if it read fidei tuae committo ut Titio hereditatem restituas . |
| 28 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 29 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 30 | Barak hated violence , especially if it involved guns . |