Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 2 | Therefore , whilst in theory the compact could be approved by a simple majority , in practice it required the removal of the anti-nuclear clauses from the Constitution , a process which required a 75 per cent vote in its favour . |
| 3 | If it needed a car it borrowed the Army 's one . |
| 4 | In effect it gave the UK all the frequencies needed for a nationwide Carfax service on a dedicated lattice . |
| 5 | In the long term it committed the papacy to active government . |
| 6 | For the longer term it envisaged the strengthening of civil liberties , a ‘ stage-by-stage transition to a market system ’ , international cooperation and democratisation of the party itself . |
| 7 | But helped by the wind it cleared the hump in the middle of the fairway , bounced high off the forward slope and ran through the narrow gap between the bunkers . |
| 8 | To the north the Corridor had a sea coast of 76 km ; to the south it had the river Notec and the Notec canal . |
| 9 | The shorter prologue of Lex Salica states that With God 's help it pleased the Franks and their nobility and they agreed that they ought to prohibit all escalations of quarrels for the preservation of enthusiasm for peace among themselves ; and because they excelled other neighbouring peoples by force of arms , so they should excel them in legal authority , with the result that criminal cases might be concluded in a manner appropriate to the type of complaint . |
| 10 | After Stalin 's fall it became the Road of the Heroes and then was changed to the Road of Youth . |
| 11 | During the war it became the seat of the Nazi occupiers , including the infamous Nazis Heydrich and Frank . |
| 12 | Caroline held her breath as they stood in the silence , watching as it began its final plunge , and , at just the moment it painted the world crimson , Nicolo put his hands on her shoulders . |
| 13 | Instead , when budgetary reform took place it took the form of a three tier decision making unit . |
| 14 | Normally , one is rather relieved to see the opposition bringing the ball back inside but at Rubislaw it set the alarm bells clanging . |
| 15 | But it is unlikely that over any five-year period it exceeded the £120,000 per annum enjoyed by Richard II . |
| 16 | To my consternation it included the name of Mr Kagan , with whom I was not anxious to resume an acquaintance , not because of what happened afterwards but because of what had happened in my office . |
| 17 | In Nizan 's imagination it assumed the status of a moral crusade . |
| 18 | On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course . |
| 19 | Stimulus-response ( S-R ) psychology has largely gone out of fashion now , yet in its day it carried the field , and even now its influence is still felt . |
| 20 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 21 | It had a bit of all of these things rolled into one and best of all , on the last day it had the races . |
| 22 | The day it happened the day you got this |
| 23 | In its day it built the world 's first by-pass and dug the world 's first underground railway . |
| 24 | By controlling inflation it created the conditions , by lowering taxes it created incentives . |
| 25 | The book described it as ‘ remote ’ , but at this distance it seemed the centre of the world ; the eye of a ferocious storm whose outer edges could never pull free ; the heart of a titan , beating like thunder ; an energy so awesome that it was dragging the very edges of the forest ever closer . |
| 26 | Since the agrarian reform swept away the landlord tenant relationship it altered the claims to the output from land . |
| 27 | With increased availability , pricing has dropped to a street price of $999 apiece for the 36MHz and $1,399 apiece for the 40MHz in quantities of 1,000 — quite different from the $1,900 price it gave The Microprocessor Report for the 40MHz back in December ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 28 | Last month it lifted the pharmaceuticals component of its turnover above 60 p.c. with the purchase of Peter Hand from Hillsdown for £7½m . |
| 29 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 30 | Earlier this month it announced the £48.8 million acquisition of Clifford Foods , which delivers milk across five counties in the south of England from Kent to Cornwall . |