Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tumbled against the German mark — ending perilously close to its critical floor in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 2 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 3 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 4 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 5 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 6 | you know it applied to the British |
| 7 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century Anglican evangelicalism reinforced the attack , but it operated on the poor ; Methodism did that and worked in the hearts and minds of the poor . |
| 9 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 10 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 11 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 12 | She looked at Lily 's shrunk and sanded face , abstracted on some pinnacle of pain , and saw it lanced by the fierce thrust of grass and sucked dry by the brutal assault of flowers . |
| 13 | Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates . |
| 14 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 15 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Gower , who will be in India this winter commentating for BSkyB , last night changed his position on the protest , saying : ‘ I had hoped they might drop this before it got to the full meeting . |
| 17 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 18 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 19 | That was , that , but it got over the main point of the story . |
| 20 | In fact , working women were more independent and less likely to marry early ; and the real significance of this controversy was what it revealed about the ideological assumptions of ruling-class men . |
| 21 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 22 | It rippled in the light breeze like a sea . |
| 23 | The tower was added in 1864 and it passed to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904 . |
| 24 | Formerly a part of Kievan Rus , Belorussia also came under Lithuanian and Polish control until it passed to the Russian Empire under the partitions of the late eighteenth century . |
| 25 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 26 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 27 | The wagon broke free from the freight train as it passed through the German town of Northeim . |
| 28 | While it passed over the flat surface four hard pointed styli engraved the foil , sometimes in a continuous line and sometimes with a series of indentations , several times a second , each stylus responding to the quantity of the parameter concerned . |
| 29 | I was once on the ridge with my wife , taking photographs , when the silence was shattered suddenly by the scream of a low-flying jet aeroplane ; in a matter of seconds , it skimmed over the full length of the loch , rose a little in the upper valley and then appeared to turn sharply into the mountain wall , passing from sight and sound . |
| 30 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |