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 | Rachel sat there alone , staring blankly at the turquoise sea as it rippled softly on white sand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |
| 6 | It arose out of genuine social issues , not because there was a disproportionate number of prejudiced personalities living in the locality . |
| 7 | At least it provided somewhere for Lucien to anchor his attention . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It used both to good effect and at a further general election , held in October of the same year , won 42 more seats than its Conservative opponent . |
| 11 | The remaining 75 per cent — much of it ground down to toxic sludge and non-degradable waste — ends up dumped in landfill sites . |
| 12 | No faults were found , and , as it behaved well in early clinical trials , it was duly marketed , under the name Librium . |
| 13 | It concentrated instead on living examples of people who were judged highly creative , thereby making it possible to evaluate them at first-hand on objective personality tests or similar assessment procedures . |
| 14 | The Werner Report of October 1970 mapped out a stage-by-stage plan to achieve economic and monetary union ( EMU ) by 1980 , although it concentrated more on monetary union and assumed that economic union would automatically follow . |
| 15 | A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant , just a month after it opted out of local authority control . |
| 16 | The nasal strip was popular until the middle of the twelfth century , when it dropped out of general use . |
| 17 | It appealed directly to aristocratic sporting interests , and the Zoological Gardens in Regent 's Park were at first restricted to members and their guests . |
| 18 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 19 | and I just , I threw buckets of water on it to rinse it , and it dried because it was really warm and it came up like new |
| 20 | And it came through on red Gordon ! |
| 21 | It came out with particular force in my work . |
| 22 | Thereafter it lingered on with uneasy support from the Nationalist members who needed a Cabinet sympathetic to Scottish and Welsh devolution . |
| 23 | Away from the panic , the waiting , the torn-up schedules , hell , it seemed almost like old times , almost normal . |
| 24 | We watched fascinated as it parachuted down in slow descent , tail fanned , wings tilted upwards . |
| 25 | When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so . |
| 26 | On board the B-17 as it climbed eastwards from Great Ashfield were the men responsible with Tommie taking the firing honours . |
| 27 | Whilst pursuant to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1988 the burden is now on the landlord to show that it acted reasonably in withholding consent or in imposing conditions upon its consent , the landlord is entitled to require references , accounts and other relevant financial information . |
| 28 | Rumours abounded about the Royston side — they could not raise a team , then they could raise a team but it consisted entirely of old men ! |
| 29 | THE SYMPOSIUM on phylogenetic construction held in Cambridge in 1980 was novel in one sense , for it consisted entirely of local rather than transatlantic talent , although a number of familiar Americans were certainly present in spirit . |
| 30 | It turned up in lost property . |