Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | THE South West Thames regional health authority requested the army be drafted in for ambulance work when it became clear the police could not cope , according to ambulance mangement . |
2 | The scale of the problems facing Mr Major worsened yesterday as it became clear the Danes want even more concessions over Maastricht . |
3 | The inflation was also a good thing in that it produced all the contents of the universe quite literally out of nothing . |
4 | It encapsulated all the preoccupations and fantasies of the provincial adolescent . |
5 | It demonstrated all the concerns which have been made by Edwards , Adler , and Temkin in relation to rape trials about the bias of the proceedings against the woman . |
6 | With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year . |
7 | Beginning and ending with formal parades , it displayed all the paradoxes of an occupation whose function was simultaneously to be both the controllers and the controlled . |
8 | The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then . |
9 | Effectively I suppose , what the best thing to do is to check the T G I manual against the , against the erm ad-hoc procedure and providing it covered all the things which are in the ad-hoc procedure , it should be okay . |
10 | Now it covered all the lowlands of Sichuan . |
11 | ‘ It encompassed all the things I love — skiing , trampolining , music and dance . ’ |
12 | Former Sunderland striker Billy Hughes , who played in the 1973 Cup winning team and is now steward at Stressholme Golf Club , Darlington , said : ‘ It brought all the memories flooding back . |
13 | It brought all the agonies of doubt and self-criticism which we can too easily forget . |
14 | It contained all the instructions for his escape that night . |
15 | It contained all the mementoes of an organisation for which pain and suffering ( military and personal ) became virtues , because they were experienced in the cause of the Legion and ultimately the cause of France . |
16 | ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields . |
17 | Yes yes yes when when when I grew older , of course it took all the men When er you know one would b the the whole lot would be going together you know . |
18 | It blew all the cobwebs away . |
19 | The last tiny flicker of hope seemed to die inside her , and as it did all the lights in the grand chamber went out . |
20 | It highlighted all the issues of the unhealthiness of industrial towns , of poverty , bad housing and squalid environments . |
21 | In a long feature by its news editor , it gave all the facts about the neutron bomb and the conclusions to be drawn from them . |
22 | But otherwise it had all the ingredients of the detective novel , down to a theme , the passion for justice . |
23 | It had all the things one likes about art galleries . |
24 | And if this was nothing more , at least it had all the trappings of a glamorous evening . |
25 | It had all the signs of being the backstage entrance to the building . |
26 | But it had all the signs of a sectarian killing . |
27 | The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble . |
28 | Certainly , it had all the makings of a cinematic success : a superb international cast in the roles of cheating , lying slaves , beautiful handmaidens and courtesans , broad-shouldered , not-too-bright soldiers , henpecked husbands , domineering wives , long-lost children and vestal virgins , involved in love and death scenes , processions , chases and a slave market . |
29 | He had witnessed the girl 's suffering and had analysed the fluid brought up from the stomach — it had all the appearances of urine — colour , taste , smell and consistency . |
30 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |