Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 2 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 3 | I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore . |
| 4 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 5 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 6 | But the Guinness Mahon decision , although it had saved the company , had introduced a sobering note . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although it had contained a tory majority since 1812 the mayor was a reformer … |
| 9 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
| 10 | Pride and hurt would n't allow her to ask where he was , and Gaston had volunteered no information , so it had remained a mystery . |
| 11 | As science had gradually eroded the freedom of time , so it had eroded the freedom of belief . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once it had had a lawn and trees and borders but except for a small area , testament to one chap 's enthusiasm for vegetables , it was , says Mrs Hewer , ‘ quite ungardened ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 16 | At a civic reception that evening Chapman announced that the club would not be satisfied until it had won the League Championship . |
| 17 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ally Pally 's pre-restoration days undoubtedly had associations of tatty romance — they lay in the contrast between the Cecil B. De Mille bravura of the original concept and such visible signs of its decline , as if it had become a Victorian actor/manager unable to gesticulate because of rheumatism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He then engaged full astern , causing the boat to stop as if it had hit a brick wall , and cried : ‘ Drop anchor ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And , if it had hit the airliner , Russian lives would have been unnecessarily lost . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 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 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |