Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to that date , it applied also to non-private customers . |
| 2 | Section 7(1) could be construed as applying to previous enactments , but it was argued that it applied also to subsequent enactments . |
| 3 | This was especially true of the Fire Service , our immediate neighbours , and it applied equally to those in the adjacent Gateshead Borough Police and Northumberland Constabulary , who were always talked of as being a lesser breed of mortals . |
| 4 | Lord Denning decided that if the clause was limited by its perceived object it applied only to such part of the GUS group as operated within the UK . |
| 5 | It was the first time that there had been a debate on the viability and the desirability of having an element of compulsory further education , which in theory was to enrol all adolescents , though in practice it applied mainly to those from the working class . |
| 6 | But in the second week television coverage of defence doubled to 12 per cent , and in the third week it doubled again to 26 per cent before almost disappearing from the bulletins in the fourth and fifth weeks . |
| 7 | Between 1801 and 1851 the area 's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921 , the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town 's development as a capitalist urban locality . |
| 8 | And it got on from that you see . |
| 9 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 10 | Rachel sat there alone , staring blankly at the turquoise sea as it rippled softly on white sand . |
| 11 | The zone control valve was mounted on a horizontal range pipe so that the drop pipe from it passed vertically through three levels , an open-sprinkler being mounted at the head of each level . |
| 12 | There was Tizer and cream soda and beer and lassi to drink , all of it laid out on white tablecloths with tiny paper napkins for all of us . |
| 13 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 14 | It was usually taken , particularly when combined as it often was with the adjective " extraordinary " , as indicating a status superior to that of the resident : it became rapidly in many states during the later seventeenth century the most widely used of all diplomatic titles . |
| 15 | Unigate 's attitude to the liquid milk market has changed markedly since it sold close to half its business to Dairy Crest four years ago . |
| 16 | As L & Y shed No. 17 it housed up to 40 locomotives including LYR 4-4-0s , 2-4-2 tanks , 2-6-2 tanks and Dreadnought 4-6-0s for working the passenger traffic to Preston Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 17 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 18 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 19 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 20 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 21 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |
| 22 | The catastrophic fall in union education mirrored a wider malaise in the movement as a whole , as the assumptions that underlay existing strategies started to crumble , The TUC 's own education programme is a case in point ; it expanded rapidly from 1975 , after an internal review of educational services showed that the average workplace or branch official enjoyed half a day 's education a year , but it did so on the basis of government funding combined with statutory entitlements to day release for workplace representatives . |
| 23 | It arose out of genuine social issues , not because there was a disproportionate number of prejudiced personalities living in the locality . |
| 24 | I think what was in the village news it arose out of those children 's survey down there and what happened was that Mrs did n't think we 'd er put in perhaps as politely as we should . |
| 25 | and it changed out of all recognition . |
| 26 | I watched it float in slow motion towards the ceramic shower base , which it cracked neatly in two . |
| 27 | At least it provided somewhere for Lucien to anchor his attention . |
| 28 | Slowly , it moved upwards among jagged folds of rock hanging like petrified curtains above their heads ; it swung to the right and travelled downwards , glistening on a myriad crystalline particles in the rock face ; it moved across to the left and traced a black line where the stone floor ended abruptly just short of the far wall . |
| 29 | Even this has proved disappointing for its slow development of preventative medicine , but it contributed further to many changes . |
| 30 | He was one of those who led that assembly in prayer on its first full day 's sitting , which it devoted entirely to religious exercises . |