Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Kremlin ordered four restive Soviet republics last night to drop a series of controversial new laws which it said contravened the constitution , Tass reported . |
| 2 | THE Kremlin ordered four restive Soviet republics last night to drop a series of controversial new laws which it said contravened the constitution , Tass reported . |
| 3 | The ANC , while welcoming the plan for the constitution to be drafted by an elected body , rejected other aspects of the proposals which it believed left the government as " both player and referee " in the first period of the transition . |
| 4 | The International Union for the Conservation of Nature had strongly urged cancellation of the project , which it feared threatened the integrity of one of the world 's most important wetlands . |
| 5 | Restrictions ( Clause 21 ) will commonly be sought in relation to four specific matters : ( 1 ) the nature of the work which it sought to prevent the outgoing partner from undertaking ; ( 2 ) the persons for whom it is sought to prevent the outgoing partner acting ; ( 3 ) the area over which the restrictions are to operate ; and ( 4 ) the solicitation of clients of the firm , whether directly by personal contact or indirectly by advertising . |
| 6 | Considerable controversy was provoked by the government 's measure , still known by the name of its previous incarnation as ‘ Clause 28 ’ , in which it sought to ban the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities . |
| 7 | Current Manager George Thomson said the celebrations had given staff an opportunity to reflect on the Branch 's long history during which it had played an important role in providing financial services to the community . |
| 8 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 9 | From the Communist viewpoint their campaign had been justified by the vote of 592,000 for affiliation and by the importance which it had given the Party in the eyes of militant Labour Party members . |
| 10 | He said then that the housing market recession had not hit the North East and North Yorkshire with anything like the force with which it had struck the rest of the country . |
| 11 | The second National Government , by contrast , resulted from a general election in which it had inflicted a massive defeat on the Labour party . |
| 12 | After jilting Touche Ross , with which it had planned a worldwide merger , it married its UK practice with the UK practice of Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 13 | It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal . |
| 14 | The Committee gave British Rail a ferocious roasting over the way in which it had introduced the Bill and prosecuted its case . |
| 15 | NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] . |
| 16 | The parliamentary opposition defeated the plans for military reform which were proposed in 1867 , with the result that the army remained well below the level which it needed to confront the newly enlarged and well-armed Prussian state . |
| 17 | The Whig group led by the Marquis of Rockingham provided , in the 1760s and 1770s , the first example of this ; while many of the ideas for which it stood inspired the somewhat similar group led by Charles James Fox in the 1780s and 1790s . |
| 18 | Finally , and most important of all , the Central Committee published a draft ‘ Platform ’ on the national question in August 1989 setting out the basis on which it proposed to conduct the long-promised plenum , which was now to be held in September . |
| 19 | All the , the unlimitable supply of God 's grace could not save you or me by itself it had to have the other side , it had to have faith , I have to receive it . |
| 20 | It has been wrong on unilateralism and trade union legislation and wrong about the man whom it picked to lead the Labour party . |
| 21 | So I had to wait fo at Enfield Chase for another bus and the bus from Enfield Chase yeah you go along all these piddley little so it 's from erm ten it took me it took takes an hour-and-a-half on the bus . |
| 22 | Well I would say Not being a riveter I would think it it did make the job a bit easier for them . |
| 23 | She would show him what it meant to rouse a sleeping volcano . |
| 24 | Not knowing what it meant to have a past , he did n't miss it . |