Example sentences of "it [vb past] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers against it were still high ( 250 ) , but it passed with a respectable majority and was ready for promulgation . |
| 2 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 3 | He shook his head , his hair catching the light so that it gleamed with a blue fire . |
| 4 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 5 | The Lutheran Church , Benedictines and White Fathers also favoured the use of Swahili wherever possible , depending on where the mission was stationed ; it met with a certain amount of resistance in the provinces around Lake Victoria and in the north . |
| 6 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 7 | The big lift took them up higher and higher until they reached the top floor when it stopped with a little bump . |
| 8 | It moved with a heavy surge and the dog released it , her hackles rising . |
| 9 | It burned with a pure and nursery flame in a blue and white saucer filled with matchsticks . |
| 10 | Convertibility eventually came in 1958 ; but it came with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 11 | It came with a generous 8Mb of RAM , backed by a full complement of 256Kb secondary cache RAM . |
| 12 | His Catechism of a Revolutionary is a classic in the tactics of terrorism , and it came with an agreeable click of fittingness to learn recently that this work earned a place on the bookshelves of Stalin . |
| 13 | The fall , when it came with the Eighties , was from a great height . |
| 14 | For in addition to the package that it negotiated with the delightful Mrs Morozova back in 1990 , came the equally delightful and extremely talented Miss Roubanova , the 13 year old daughter of Olga and her husband , Victor . |
| 15 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 16 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 17 | It happened with the same naturalness that had first drawn them together , and in taking her he felt the greatest fulfilment of his life . |
| 18 | Egypt protested at FIFA 's original date of 28 March as it conflicted with a religious festival . |
| 19 | He alleged that the statute in question was invalid in that it conflicted with a fundamental principle of natural law , the right of free speech . |
| 20 | The fourth congress of the ruling Communist Party ( PCC ) , scheduled to take place in August in Santiago de Cuba , was postponed until the autumn , ostensibly because it conflicted with the simultaneous hosting of the Pan-American Games . |
| 21 | The law , the most draconian to have been passed by any mainland state , could not take immediate effect because it conflicted with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision — the foundation of legalized abortion in the USA . |
| 22 | At 1 p.m. it rode round Madrid with the other Councils in full dress to restore order and in the following days it co-operated with the French authorities in the collection of arms . |
| 23 | On Saturdays , it arrived with a stylish colour magazine , taken over from the Sunday Telegraph . |
| 24 | It arrived with a new sticker : ‘ Erster Airbus A340 flügel von Deutsche Airbus , Bremen . ’ |
| 25 | Here at the fault a ventilation shaft was being put up to the surface where it linked with a short low drift driven into the boulder clay near the foot of Kernal Crag . |
| 26 | The Canadian government intervened with measures to help the fishermen and other measures to help the fish ; and though it acted with the best of intentions , it had the worst of results . |
| 27 | It opened with a black screen and a voice that said , ‘ This is probably the most frightening place in the world . ’ |
| 28 | It opened with a lone commuter waiting for a train late at night . |
| 29 | It opened with the ultimate statement , ‘ We love you all . ’ |
| 30 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |