Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 2 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 3 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 4 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 5 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
| 6 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 7 | In a two-year period of review from late 1981 the Course as a whole and all fields within it reviewed overall principles , the design of the Course and the specific contributions of subject areas . |
| 8 | In the churches , traditional orthodoxy of a more or less pre-Enlightenment character fought to retain its footing , but alongside it grew other movements ranging from what today would be called Conservative Evangelicalism to those which were consciously progressive , liberal and modern . |
| 9 | Beyond it stood four guards , their knives drawn . |
| 10 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |
| 11 | The predominant over-view in this Department was that Television held a special kind of mystique ; that writing and producing drama for it demanded special levels of skill which were to be somewhere between the scopes of the Theatre and the Cinema . |
| 12 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |