Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 2 | Philip Urbach was encouraged by a German-sounding word ( ‘ Maybe English was n't so difficult after all ’ ) , without realising that it meant war over Poland . |
| 3 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 4 | Earlier , East Germany had announced the solution as a ‘ humanitarian act ’ by the government , adding that it hoped Bonn in future would run its embassies ‘ in normal manner according to international usage ’ . |
| 5 | The magic faded away — slowly , over the millenia , releasing as it decayed myriads of sub-astral particles that severely distorted the reality around it … |
| 6 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 7 | The Sunday News , sister paper to the Standard , quoted the Government as saying that it welcomed criticism but would crush any attempt to change government by unconstitutional means . |
| 8 | For centuries racing took place on Clifton Ings with the House book of the York Corporation recording that it took place there as long ago as 1530 . |
| 9 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 10 | He read it through , a touch uneasy that its jocularity might displease Newton but knowing that it told Newton what he wanted to know . |
| 11 | It was so scarring that it dominated perceptions in Moscow for years to come . |
| 12 | On Aug. 21 a meeting between Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi and US officials resolved tensions which had arisen over what the Kenyan authorities had perceived as the lack of proper consultation about the US operation , involving as it did US military aircraft overflying Kenyan airspace and the arrival of up to 300 US military personnel . |
| 13 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 23 was also sceptical of the Sunday Times report , claiming that it ran counter to the " general view in Damascus that it is the president 's son Basel al-Assad> who is now favoured for the succession " . |
| 14 | ( Critics of the Keynesian approach often pointed an accusatory finger at this assumption , claiming that it removed wage theory from the hands of economists and handed it over to sociologists . |
| 15 | It will come as no surprise to discover , then , that Spencer was highly critical of statutory intervention , arguing that it stifled liberty and led to rigidity and uniformity : ‘ Society , a living growing organism , placed within apparatuses of dead , rigid , mechanical formulas , can not fail to be hampered and pinched . ’ |
| 16 | Critics of the decision by the Bush administration said yesterday that continuing US production was destabilising because it encouraged countries capable of producing chemical weapons to begin developing new production lines immediately . |
| 17 | The Islamic Interim Afghan Government ( IIAG ) , elected from the seven Pakistan-based mujaheddin groups in February 1989 [ see p. 36449 ] , was marred by disunity and came under heavy criticism from both Afghan opposition groups and the United States government as being unrepresentative , excluding as it did representatives of the eight factions based among 2,000,000 , mainly Shia , refugees in Iran , and largely lacking representation of field commanders based inside Afghanistan . |
| 18 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 19 | This annual jamboree was an unwieldy but useful public relations exercise which needed careful preparation , including as it did representatives from the interested government departments , local authorities , police , fire and water authorities , the National Farmers Union and the Country Landowners ' Association . |
| 20 | The report criticises the authority for not giving help to the family and ensuring that it maintained contact with Horler . |
| 21 | So sleazy , Pamella 's tale , featuring as it did madams , whores , procuresses , cash payments , unusual sexual practices , Arabs . |
| 22 | Internationally , this did no harm whatever , relieving as it did part of the burden on the social services , leaving prices unaffected and giving a better standard of living to existing residents and the newly-employed alike . |