Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand the BDDA scored a triumph , which it circulated " to every mission and school for the deaf and dumb in the United Kingdom " , when it successfully campaigned for the nondiscriminatory insurance of deaf and dumb people in employment under the Workmen 's Compensation , Unemployment and Invalidity Acts which the Lloyd George Government passed early in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | In response to the proposed new guidelines the FMLN , which had demobilized the first 20 per cent of its forces in June [ see p. 38957 ] and a further 20 per cent on Sept. 21 , agreed to disband the next 20 per cent on Oct. 31 ( on which date it duly proceeded with the disarming of some 1,000 guerrillas ) , a further 20 per cent on Nov. 20 and the final 20 per cent on Dec. 15 . |
| 3 | It duly appeared on the front cover of Music Week the following week : BRANSON BOMBSHELL : VIRGIN CHIEF SEEKS £2OM CITY BACKING TO PUT CABLE MUSIC INTO MILLIONS OF HOMES . |
| 4 | Having emerged from this complex background , the book evinced an eccentric fidelity to Ritschl 's advice , when it duly appeared after the suggested " couple of years " . |
| 5 | It rarely featured in the financial press , and did not appear to have much of a voice on driving matters — unusual for a company in its position . |
| 6 | In fact it rarely met in the 1920s . |
| 7 | Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides . |
| 8 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 9 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 10 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |
| 11 | Originally started for the Lobkovic family in 1545 by Agostino Galli , it eventually came into the hands of the Schwarzenberg family . |
| 12 | But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales . |
| 13 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 14 | I think it only lasted through the summer vacation , but it was a , it was an interesting experience , and in fact in , in their own little way the group showed some of the tensions which we found in our seventeenth-century radicals . |
| 15 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 16 | It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power . |
| 17 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 18 | A usual ploy was to have to re-tie one 's gym shoe just as one 's turn came round , but it only staved off the evil moment . |
| 19 | IT MAY SEEM paradoxical to describe Mrs Curdle 's gipsy caravan first , for it only stood on the green for a day or two at the end of April and beginning of May each year . |
| 20 | The cash value to be placed upon a first appointment as writer or cadet is uncertain , for it obviously depended upon the number of years in which a candidate would draw the salary , but contemporaries no doubt took the possibility of an early death from disease into account when they spoke of a value of £1,000 . |
| 21 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 22 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 23 | Though the Act of 1547 provided that the surrendered endowments of the remaining 2,374 chantries be applied to public and charitable purposes nationally , much of it merely went into the pockets of Edward VI 's advisers . |
| 24 | Indeed , because care-giving is so crucially important to current community care policies , it is increasingly difficult to keep it entirely confined within the private domestic domain . |
| 25 | It just slithered over the surface , then , as its wheels became clogged , it stopped , settled down , and slowly , inch by inch , began to sink . |
| 26 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 27 | Yeah so it must have been alright cos there was no letter it just said with the compliments and just take it |
| 28 | So it just got to the point when he was getting real busy and I did n't want to put my fate in someone else 's hands — even though my way it was a much slower progression . |
| 29 | He apologised in advance if he should be too expert , but Jessica conceded graciously she had nothing against technique per se , it just got in the way of animal passion sometimes . |
| 30 | It just went against the grain . |