Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 2 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 3 | ‘ Precatory ’ had become central ; but not in the useful way in which it became defined in English law , to denote words where the testator 's intention was a matter for dispute . |
| 4 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 5 | The classic story is that of the blues singer Ma Rainey , contracted to a company which did not have electrical recording when it became publicized in 1926 . |
| 6 | Any movement of the mouse will change the pattern that the chip detects and it can instantly calculate how far it has moved in any direction . |
| 7 | What the creation of the Parisian chef ( his name is said to have been Philippe , owner of a restaurant in the rue Montorgueil ) has lost in splendour it has gained in ancient antecedents and a background which will make a godsend for publicity men , compilers of travel literature , and the experts in picturesque magazine cookery . |
| 8 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 9 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 10 | Each authority will be responding to its local conditions , the numbers of SSD homes it has kept in reserve to manage the market , the extent to which it has created quasi-independent trusts , and the number of private beds in its locality . |
| 11 | These substantial resources will enable the executive to continue the progress that it has made in recent years in improving housing conditions in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | It has developed in two ways . |
| 13 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 14 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 15 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 16 | But that is what it has become in many churches where it is surrounded by a po-faced atmosphere akin to a dentist 's waiting room . |
| 17 | It has emerged in many countries that , as the standard of living rises , it is more and more difficult to run an autocratic production system using the indigenous labour force . |
| 18 | The Department of Theology and Religious Studies offers two aspects of theology : doctrine as it has emerged in Christian tradition , and the relation of theology to influences from philosophy , other contemporary studies , and atheistic alternatives . |
| 19 | Methods of contraception and details of the menstrual cycle — whether it has altered in any way , how regular it is — will be asked , and also details of the symptoms , if any , that prompted attendance . |
| 20 | Because the film includes no genital close-ups or explicit sexual activity , it has played in many parts of the world , occasionally with a classification less restrictive than that given to so-called ‘ hardcore ’ sex films . |
| 21 | It has participated in American Petroleum Institute [ API ] committees and task groups , in order to develop specifications currently in use today . |
| 22 | At the same time , the concept of the unitary individual subject , on which he relies , should come under fire — as it has done in recent years , under the influence of post-structuralist thought . |
| 23 | ‘ Unless there is a change of heart and a positive determination to rid ourselves completely of this terrorism , then it is bound to happen in places such as Castlerock , as it has done in other areas . ’ |
| 24 | Over those years , it has poured in some FFr103 billion of capital into nationalised industries . |
| 25 | It has suffered in recent years from heavy traffic which the new by — pass will alleviate , but the old market town which I remember from forty-odd years ago is fast becoming yet a multiple retailers ' outlet . |
| 26 | Labour is certain to retain its commitment to spend more on the health service with a promise to restore the resources to the hospital sector it has lost in real terms since being in office . |
| 27 | The offer caused mass protests and eventually the firm pulled out , but now it has put in another bid , believed to be £5m . |
| 28 | Arrested larvae accumulate during the spring and where Type II disease has been reported it has occurred in late summer or early autumn . |
| 29 | It has occurred in each month from October to June , but is most usually found between December and May , either wintering or on spring passage . |
| 30 | As was said by Staughton LJ in United Bank of Kuwait Ltd v Hammond [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 1051 , advising that older judicial authorities should be treated with a degree of caution : the work that solicitors do can be expected to have changed since 1888 ; it has changed in recent times and is changing now . |