Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tide was so high it gave the impression of the train being waterborne . |
| 2 | In 1985 it purchased the Grosvenor and Charing Cross hotels in London and entered into joint ventures with the large American hotel chain Ramada Inns to manage these hotels and others that it intends to buy . |
| 3 | When Piper bought out the old-established light aircraft firm of Stinson in 1949–50 it inherited the Twin-Stinson , a light twin of generous proportions which , in original form , had twin fins and a pair of 135 hp Lycoming engines . |
| 4 | As such it became the Science Museum 's first aircraft and the first aircraft to be entered into a museum in the UK ( if not the world ) at the same time . |
| 5 | As such it undermined the defences of the other 10 who faced charges arising from the affair and who , like Shinto , had argued that the shares did not constitute a form of bribery . |
| 6 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 7 | In the first the computer threw up the names , in the second it allocated the numbers . |
| 8 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 9 | In 1975 it launched the world 's first interest rate futures contract on Government National Mortgage Association ( GNMA ) mortgage backed certificates . |
| 10 | When the Redcliffe-Maud Commission ( on England ) reported in 1969 it recommended the abolition of the old structure and the establishment of a new pattern of local authorities . |
| 11 | On Oct. 17 the government had approved the sale of 101 state companies , and on Oct. 21 it endorsed the privatization of a further 24 state-owned industrial enterprises . |
| 12 | Once a Renaissance palace , after 1709 it became the property of Count Vrtba who commissioned Kaňka to rebuild it for him . |
| 13 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 14 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 15 | Most awkward and indigestible of all it left the problem of the afrancesados . |
| 16 | For many it transformed the view of religion from a confused mystery into a practical guide for everyday life . |
| 17 | In 1981 it cut the link between earnings and unemployment benefits and uprated benefits in line with price rather than wage increases ( which have been higher for much of the decade ) . |
| 18 | In the early 1970s it became the practice to tell the press what had happened and whether any votes were taken . |
| 19 | For the former it allowed the husband time to concentrate on other enterprises whilst in the case of the latter it reduced the work that had to be done by the husband on his return from his off-farm job . |
| 20 | After Rizzio 's murder in 1566 it became the residence of Mary , Queen of Scots . |
| 21 | On 16 November 1504 it discussed the question of peace treaties with the Crowns of Spain and the King of France , referring the matter to the ‘ good and ripe deliberation ’ of a small committee . |
| 22 | In 1949 it became the capital of the Federal Republic which grew out of the amalgamation of the French , British and American zones of occupation . |
| 23 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 24 | Alison 's denial was so forceful it attracted the attention of a couple at a neighbouring table . |
| 25 | Sadly when Roger left in nineteen eighty-six it took the education of who provided Roger 's er salary until point successor . |
| 26 | While the fire was small it filled the groundfloor of the building with smoke , which had started to take a hold of the first floor when Cleveland Fire Brigade arrived . |
| 27 | It was dreary beyond belief , and at first it had the effect of offsetting his own emotional night . |
| 28 | At first it left the initiative to state and local government but then it progressively took away more and more of it . |
| 29 | First it introduced the need for the objective definition of problem behaviour — that is , the specification of observable and recordable behaviour independent of the subjective information that frequently accompanies it . |
| 30 | For the former it allowed the husband time to concentrate on other enterprises whilst in the case of the latter it reduced the work that had to be done by the husband on his return from his off-farm job . |