Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , they prohibited HERA from endowing her horse with speech , for they considered this unnatural ; they would also return the sun to its true course , whenever it deviated for any reason . |
| 2 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 3 | Now could you tell us about how it came about that you moved to ? |
| 4 | Can you give some idea of how it came about that you in fact decided strike ? |
| 5 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 6 | Remember how it looked on that first X-ray ? ’ |
| 7 | His own task was to make sure , no matter how it appeared to other people , that he constantly checked across from his private life of personal belief — and back again — to the professional , public and accountable life of a head . |
| 8 | Erm perhaps the thing to do is to look at how it varied in nineteen eighty six . |
| 9 | It originated in the east and southeast parts of the Netherlands along the three rivers : the Meuse , the Rhine and the Ijssel , whence it spread to sandier areas and to Westphalia , Rhineland , Belgium , Luxembourg , etc. , and to Denmark and Brittany in the 1960s . |
| 10 | There he joined the ‘ Ancient ’ Separatist congregation of Francis Johnson [ q.v. ] , and he remained a member until 1610 , when it split into two parts — one led by Johnson and the other by Henry Ainsworth [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | I can still remember the day when it walked into all our lives . |
| 12 | Because the disaster revealed something about the basic nature of the Soviet system , at a moment when it had at last become possible to do something about that system , the political consequences may prove the most profound of all . |
| 13 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 14 | Not when it came to that . |
| 15 | Looking in detail at the fiscal assessment of the settlement around 1200 , she came to the conclusion that the village was originally planned between 1066 and 1086 , when it consisted of 16 crofts , eight on each side of the village street . |
| 16 | ITV was allowed about seven hours a day when it started in 1955 ; and long before the growth of home computers , VCRs and video games in the 1980s , of course , the TV set had become a main focus ( often the focus ) of the living room . |
| 17 | The discipline has played a part in studies of sexuality since the nineteenth century , when it contributed to scientific and popular debate about the biological and social determination of sexual behaviours . |
| 18 | The aircraft was on charter to fly passengers from Norwich to Gothenburg , Sweden , and during the morning of 12 Dec 73 it made an uneventful positioning flight from Oslo , Norway , to Norwich where it landed at 1228 hours . |
| 19 | So then er er one morning the there was a very heavy swell on and the anchor must have given way and it w we saw the mine floating away towards Tiree so where it went after that we never heard . |
| 20 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
| 21 | In August violence , which began in Derry , spread to Belfast where it led to serious sectarian clashes and resulted in the intervention of the Westminster government and the arrival of British troops . |
| 22 | The other Rex Mundi , because , of course , it could be no other , rent hair from his head and flung it to the floor where it exploded in small sulphurous puffs of smoke . |
| 23 | He opened the car door and dropped his cigarette end on to the concreted surface where it glowed with vulgar ruddiness on the silver sharpness of the frost till he ground it under his foot as he stepped out . |
| 24 | Moreover , children gave precedence to the matching rule in situations where it conflicted with another rule . |
| 25 | Suddenly he hated his own beauty , and dropped the mirror on the floor where it broke into many small pieces . |
| 26 | Some hot spots can be very localized : for example , in Konstanz , where it rained on 30 April , ground-level radiation was 15 times greater than nearby Stuttgart , which received no rain . |
| 27 | To explain precisely why it took until 1989 for the Reading Festival to haul itself back into something resembling the land of the living requires a closer look at the origins of this venerable institution . |
| 28 | He had no hesitation , he said , in accepting the evidence of Mr. Tucker wherever it conflicted with that of Mr. O'Brien . |