Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 2 | The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst . |
| 3 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 4 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 5 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 6 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 7 | The court was unanimous in holding that it had such a right . |
| 8 | ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained . |
| 9 | Industry would be unwilling to invest further in recycling until it became profitable , he said . |
| 10 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |
| 11 | And , at one point , Malcolm must have asked him if he 'd consider coming over to join the band , because Hell wrote to us via him saying that it sounded interesting but that because money and visas would be a problem he just could n't . |
| 12 | Respondents welcomed the document , clearly indicating that it gave Religious Education parity of status with other areas of the curriculum . |
| 13 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 14 | 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes . |
| 15 | The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable . |
| 16 | The Department of the Environment has rejected the report , claiming that it contained misleading information and that the existing statutory framework was effective in controlling pollution . |
| 17 | Sealink released figures for their performance from June 27 to August 28 , claiming that it carried 38,493 more passengers and 10,818 more cars between Larne and Stranraer than last year . |
| 18 | Iraq had previously refused to destroy the complex , arguing that it served civilian purposes . |
| 19 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 20 | Timothy crossed the car-park , glad that the publican was whistling since it suggested good humour . |
| 21 | The boy sat like King Canute who forbad the tide to rise and was forced to sit watching as it lapped higher and higher . |
| 22 | A considerable number of the newly enfranchised capital class now ally their interests with the top echelons of society , rather than help sustain the old political coalition of interests , encompassing as it did much of the working class , and significant parts of the lower-middle and middle class . |
| 23 | Before he was murdered on 24 March 1980 , Romero made two fundamental statements : he declared that the church supported the legitimate right to insurrectional violence against a dictatorship in August 1979 and , only a day before he was shot dead while holding a mass in San Salvador , he called on members of the army and security forces to refrain from shooting if it ran contrary to their conscience . |
| 24 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 25 | The document noted that foreign debt was a threat to social peace and the stability of democratic systems in Latin America , restricting as it did social services budgets . |