Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Net Book Agreement first came into force after the practice of ‘ underselling ’ in the latter half of the nineteenth century had reached a stage where it threatened to undermine the whole of the book trade . |
| 2 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |
| 3 | Even now , the extremities of the grass , where it dipped to meet the mudline , were slowly and silently being invaded by the dark water as the tide reached its zenith . |
| 4 | I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore . |
| 5 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 6 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 7 | Another Gothic design did win a prize , although it failed to satisfy The Saturday Review that it was a bona fide Gothic scheme . |
| 8 | In 1650 , the Rump of the Long Parliament replaced the 1648 Blasphemy Act with their own far less harsh legislation , which although it continued to outlaw the extreme beliefs of disruptive fringe groups such as the Ranters , signalled a far more liberal approach on the part of the civil authorities . |
| 9 | But the Guinness Mahon decision , although it had saved the company , had introduced a sobering note . |
| 10 | Brazil was a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , but although it had signed the 1967 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America ( the Treaty of Tlatelolco — see p. 22505 ) it had not signed the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT — see p. 22787 ) , and for this reason had been allowed no international shipments of nuclear fuel since 1978 . |
| 11 | The third , in an article on " Obsolescent languages " ( N.C. Dorian ) , did not , although it did refer the reader to the main entry on " Bilingualism " ( K. Hakuta ) . |
| 12 | Even the original Tele guitar was designed to have some bass-playing ability , and as a consequence was not wired as it is today , although it did possess the customary three-way selector switch . |
| 13 | The film was a disappointment , although it did win the Golden Gate Award at the 1966 San Francisco Festival , as well as winning Ken Thorne an Oscar for Best Music Adaptation . |
| 14 | As science had gradually eroded the freedom of time , so it had eroded the freedom of belief . |
| 15 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 16 | In prehistoric times , if people made the horse feel anxious or afraid it would run like mad until it had seen the last of them : it fled from the problem , which reduced his fear and anxiety . |
| 17 | At a civic reception that evening Chapman announced that the club would not be satisfied until it had won the League Championship . |
| 18 | ANC leaders including its president Nelson Mandela had previously made similar allegations against the government , refusing to continue with constitutional negotiations until it acted to halt the violence [ see p. 38178 ] , which was reported to have claimed some 2,000 lives over 10 months to the end of June . |
| 19 | But if that activity became more strident and refused to take no for an answer ; if it became more popular , participatory , and direct , taking to the streets and becoming something called " extra-parliamentary politics " ; and if it threatened to overload the capacity of the state , then it was condemned — and condemned as at odds with the liberal-democracy of the British constitution . |
| 20 | In the short term , there are various measures that would be open to the government if it wished to reduce the impact of the community charge . |
| 21 | Peristalsis was considered ‘ failed ’ either if there was no contraction wave at all , or if it failed to traverse the entire length of the oesophagus , or if a simultaneous contraction occurred . |
| 22 | The judge added , at p. 143 , that if Woolwich had not paid there might have been an assessment or a writ ‘ with the result in either case of highly undesirable publicity for Woolwich if it had withheld the very large sums claimed by the revenue to be due ’ and that there was an understandable fear by Woolwich of damage to its reputation . |
| 23 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |
| 24 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 25 | The Leader of the Opposition simply pointed out in an article that he wrote just before the party conference that the proportion of gross domestic product — national income — devoted to education since 1979 had dropped , and that if it had remained the same , the difference would be the figure to which the hon. Gentleman has referred . |
| 26 | ‘ And , if it had hit the airliner , Russian lives would have been unnecessarily lost . ’ |
| 27 | As the largest single party in the upper chamber , however , the LDP could have commanded an overall majority if it had secured the support of Komeito . |
| 28 | ‘ Many statutes are passed by political bargaining and snap judgments of expediency ; the courts can rarely be sure that Parliament would have altered the wording if it had foreseen the situation . ’ |
| 29 | A Liberal Party spokesman refused to be drawn on the price the Government wanted if it had met the demands , saying that , since the deal fell through , it was hypothetical . |
| 30 | If it had published the full document as originally written , we would know that there are some real nasties in it . |