Example sentences of "[noun] [that] it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant struck with the knife into her throat on the left-hand side just near the jugular vein , with such force that it severed the spinal cord , causing almost instant paralysis . |
| 2 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 3 | The stock was always conceived as essentially complementary to the house 's fine interior , with the result that it retained a domestic atmosphere . |
| 4 | Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people . |
| 5 | It was offensive that a party should be so unprincipled as first to defeat the Government on a matter of fundamental constitutional importance ; and , having done so , should then take office on condition that it passed the measure . |
| 6 | The daily rotation of the earth on its axis had the advantage that it eliminated the need for the huge outermost sphere to revolve every twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | I thought you would never come , ’ she said as Claudia stepped into a scene of such chaos that it seemed an impossibility they would be ready on time . |
| 8 | The answer given to the first certified question was in line with those pronouncements , so even though Viscount Dilhorne was of opinion that the evidence fell short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had consented to the taking of the £6 it was a matter of decision that it made no difference whether or not he had so consented . |
| 9 | In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases . |
| 10 | Central policy seemed to be so prejudiced against the Ukraine that it evoked the suspicion in several foreign observers that this particular national minority was being deliberately neglected as a punishment for its hostility to Russian rule in the Civil War . |
| 11 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 12 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 13 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 14 | A rubbish dump at Wood Farm became so large that residents complained to Oxford City Council that it posed a fire risk . |
| 15 | But the discovery that it depleted the brain of certain transmitters made it a valuable tool in investigating brain mechanisms . |
| 16 | The writ was served at the London address on the basis that it constituted a place of business established by Capricorn as an overseas company in Great Britain , rendering such service valid under section 695 of the Companies Act 1985 , Capricorn had not registered the name and address of a person authorised to accept service . |
| 17 | It was found that the decision of the GMC to prevent advertising in the press was a lawful exercise of the statutory powers conferred on it by s35 of The Medical Act 1983 , and that if a statutory power was exercised intra vires , reasonably and in accordance with the purpose of the Act conferring the power , ( even though it restricted the plaintiff 's freedom to trade or practice his profession ) the court could not review the exercise of the power on the basis that it caused a restraint of trade , since the exercise of the power in accordance with the policy and the purpose of the Act could not be contrary to public policy and any review by the court would be unconstitutional . |
| 18 | Nor could the G.L.C. defend its policy on the basis that it possessed a mandate to lower fares . |
| 19 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 20 | However , where an authority considered that a particular course was essential to the national or regional interest but regarded the cost as excessive , it could propose to the AFEC that it covered the whole cost of that course . |
| 21 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |
| 22 | It was so absorbed in its feast that it ignored the soft approach of the man who had treated it so kindly , and could do no more than scratch and struggle as it was grasped by the neck , and lifted from the ground , its belly exposed to the flashing steel blade of a fish knife . |
| 23 | Any change would be open to the charge that it constituted a further ‘ infantilization ’ of the examination system . |
| 24 | So fierce was the rain that it swelled the river until its banks burst and the fields were flooded . |
| 25 | It was so still in the room that it seemed the three had suspended their dealings by mutual consent in order to catch the barely audible undulations of a distant ambulance siren . |
| 26 | But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home . |
| 27 | The cloud contained particles of hydrochloric acid but initial fears that it contained a chemical used in mustard gas were later denied by bosses at the ICI works in Lostock , Cheshire . |
| 28 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 29 | But the apparent willingness of the House of Lords to expedite the delivery of their judgment coupled with the highly eccentric use made of that judgment by the NIRC to release the five dockers was so convenient for the government of the day that it aroused the strong suspicion of judicial compliance with political expediency . |
| 30 | Although France officially claimed that the release of the jets was linked specifically to Libya 's improved relations with Chad , there was intense media speculation that it represented an " arms for hostages " deal . |