Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 2 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 3 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 4 | The continuing failure of Labour to present a distinctive alternative to the Tories was indicated strikingly in the opinion poll finding that 40 per cent of electors believed it made no difference which party was in power . |
| 5 | There followed an unseemly dispute between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , who owned the freehold , and the City , which believed it had a lease in perpetuity . |
| 6 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 7 | As we come to discover and worry about our own lack of autonomy , we discover in the past a similar lack of autonomy but , importantly in the Renaissance , a body of writing which never believed it possessed the power of independent expression in the first place . |
| 8 | She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children . |
| 9 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 10 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose you noticed it bore no signature . ’ |
| 12 | He refused to say what that procedure might be , but confirmed it required the permission of Lothian Regional Council . |
| 13 | I went to the shed , got the kite , walked a way along the dunes and assembled it battered a tent-peg into the ground , tied the nylon tcJ it , then flew the kite on a short string for a while . |
| 14 | A recent survey of the 443-kilometre Khutzeymateen valley showed it contained a population of 50 grizzlies , the largest known on Canada 's west coast , but that logging of the valley 's temperate rainforest-although it could be economic-- " would pose a substantial threat to the bears and the habitat " . |
| 15 | The millionaire boss of The Hanson Trust , who lives downstream from the lake , claimed it ruined the flow of the river through his land . |
| 16 | When he opened it split a bit down there . |
| 17 | When the NI first began it had a series called Myth Exploders which challenged the popular misconceptions about the Third World and our relationship with it . |
| 18 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 19 | As she moved , the fabric clung to her hips , and the skirt was slashed at the front from knee-level down , so that as she walked it gave a glimpse of her dark-stockinged legs . |
| 20 | A government official said the US trade representative , Mickey Kantor , had ‘ decided to cancel the talks when the EC indicated it had no flexibility . ’ |
| 21 | The marriage which followed it took a fraction of the time — about three minutes . |
| 22 | Only in the case of the General Strike and the events which surrounded it did the participation of the Prime Minister match his degree of ultimate responsibility . |
| 23 | A BOMB disposal squad was called to blow up a suspect suitcase at Whitby railway station at the weekend — and discovered it contained a cornet and sheet music . |
| 24 | ‘ Wishing to use this facility , I discovered it had no lock . |
| 25 | Bull evaluated translation tools from UK firms Sterling Business Systems , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , and from Liverpool-based Fraser Williams , but decided it needed an emulator to enable GCOS applications to fully function . |
| 26 | Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation . |
| 27 | When it gurgled and died it left a silence deeper than before . |
| 28 | Sucralose is one of the few products to come out of the Reading research labs that T&L felt it had the resources to develop through to the market . |
| 29 | The light shows through the membrane-type front panel — which a couple of people here did n't like because they felt it looked a bit cheap . |
| 30 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |