Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that it required ratification by the 19 EEA parliaments and the European Parliament . |
| 2 | And because of that it tipped Ruth 's heart so desperately she curled her arms around his neck and clung to him . |
| 3 | When the United States regulated its coinage under the legislation of 1792 it displayed independence by designating the silver dollar as the basic unit . |
| 4 | Most of all it took discipline . |
| 5 | Once and for all it put Fascism back on the street . |
| 6 | When the White Paper on Educational Reconstruction was published in 1943 it contained references to three possible ‘ types ’ of secondary schools — grammar , technical , and modern . |
| 7 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 8 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 9 | In presenting the majority opinion , Justice William J. Brennan noted that the new statute had been framed to penalize all flag burning , regardless of motive , but contained " the same fundamental flaw " in that it suppressed expression with which the legislators disagreed . |
| 10 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 11 | On the other hand , it seems likely that a positive function in the evolution of human society has been exercised by envy in that it maintained variations of individual behaviour within tolerable bounds and maintained a mutual bond , policed by envy and the fear of envy , between all the differentiated members of a society . |
| 12 | Erm this meant that how that er erm some of the problems actually arose from the outline landlord itself er by land law itself in that it discussed land reform in very general terms and the policy towards middle and rich peasants was left unclear erm which meant that how that classes were being mis-classified and the movement was getting out of hand . |
| 13 | It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal . |
| 14 | Since then , training has become an increasingly important part of CEPRA 's activities and in 1986 it joined forces with the Association of Native Language Communicators to set up a three-year communication diploma course for native language speakers . |
| 15 | ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson . |
| 16 | In 1991 it received payment from a client for work done and billed ( but without a VAT charge ) prior to October 1986 . |
| 17 | In 1991 it assumed responsibility for its own catering , with total revenue increasing by 60 per cent partly as a result . |
| 18 | Take China : in 1984 it imported $300 million worth of components to make 120,000 computers . |
| 19 | In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory . |
| 20 | In 1976 it spent £24 million on renewing its railways and structures — £48 million at today 's prices . |
| 21 | In 1908 it assured shareholders that it was ‘ now remunerative ’ , the prelude of course to going out of business in 1910 . |
| 22 | In 1981 it spent £252 million . |
| 23 | In 1928 it cost £25 per gram , but by 1974 it was as low as £40 per kilogram . |
| 24 | In 1987 it registered profits of an impressive £6.2 million . |
| 25 | Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc , announced in 1987 it found gold three miles west of Omagh , Co . |
| 26 | In 1966 it received $130 million , of which 71 per cent was in military assistance , more in fact than the cumulative total of military assistance from 1948 . |
| 27 | The colonial government entered the field of the press soon after the German defeat when in 1923 it introduced Mambo Leo ( ‘ Affairs of Today ’ ) . |
| 28 | The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ . |
| 29 | In particular it provided flexibility by including a significant proportion of short term placements . |
| 30 | It was very difficult to keep in working order , and when the emperor Charles V saw it in Pavia in 1529 it needed repair . |