Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the Warsaw uprising , where it had several adherents among the Russian officers of the garrison , dealt the organization a severe blow . |
| 2 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 3 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 4 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 5 | The report of the European Parliament , entitled ‘ Blue Europe ’ ( document A 2-0319/88 ) , was to the same effect where it stated that |
| 6 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |
| 7 | A harsh restructuring of basic industries , particularly steel and shipbuilding , took place under the Socialists ' rule , although it relied less than in Britain on the power of the ‘ market ’ and more on the intervention of the state . |
| 8 | Its platform was explicitly anti-immigration , although it denied any sympathy with neo-Nazis . |
| 9 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 10 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 11 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 12 | Although this is in principle one of the simplest configurations and although it played such an important role in the early history of transition studies , the details of the transition process turn out to be relatively complex and are , quite possibly , not all known . |
| 13 | Although it bid less than TSW , the latter 's business plan was deemed unviable by the Independent Television Commission with a £16.1m bid . |
| 14 | Given the rugged nature of the area , I was shocked , indeed horrified , to find that although it contained several hundred of Prince Charlie 's caves , it only boasted three Munros . |
| 15 | Each game lasted approximately 30 minutes , although it seemed much less . |
| 16 | In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time . |
| 17 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 18 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 19 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 20 | The CIA-backed contra war was an inconsequential affair in world terms , although it brought much destruction and suffering to the Nicaraguans themselves . |
| 21 | The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies . |
| 22 | The house was insured for £64,000 , although it transpired that insurance for a completed house and contents had been issued , and the house was not in fact covered . |
| 23 | In 1976 the Layfield Report , Local Government Finance , suggested that a local income tax should supplement the rates , although it listed many difficulties associated with such a venture . |
| 24 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 25 | The district council 's public relations manager Chris Trim said the District Commercial Services was separate from the council and run as a public company , although it used some of the council 's facilities such as payroll and computers . |
| 26 | He could even appreciate how tricky a situation this must have been for the DIA , although it did little to ease his sense of injury . |
| 27 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 28 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 29 | Although it impressed both Cicero ( 106–43 BC ) and Virgil ( 70–19 BC ; ) , the Epicureanism on which it was based made little impression on the Romans , except for its hedonistic aspect . |
| 30 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |