Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
| 2 | It moved to Eastern Europe in 1989 , and is regarded by local commentators as the most influential research group in the region . |
| 3 | The Cessna 182 was coming in to land at High Wycombe , Bucks , when it crashed in nearby Hambleden . |
| 4 | Moreover , under 1020 the death of Archbishop Lyfing is given first , although it occurred on 12 June , after Cnut 's return to England and the Easter meeting at Cirencester . |
| 5 | The draft union treaty was clearly superseded by these developments , and as the Kazakh president , Nursultan Nazarbaev , told the USSR Supreme Soviet when it reconvened in early September , only a much looser confederation would satisfy the aspirations of the republics that still wished to establish some kind of association . |
| 6 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 7 | He knew he was dying and retained his dignity to the end ; it came on 13 March 1967 , and the cricketing world , quite simply , was devastated . |
| 8 | It came on 14 July , a day on which the French Ambassador had asked for an audience with King William , who was taking the waters at the spa town of Ems , and had been twice refused , courteously but firmly . |
| 9 | It came on 28 October , and Il Duce took an overnight train to Rome to accept the king 's offer on the following day . |
| 10 | At the same time , the rise of this new class , and the transition from feudalism to capitalism which it accomplished in Western Europe , were made possible by other transformations and political or cultural conflicts ; by the establishment of centralized , effectively administered nation states , and by the religious struggles from which emerged the Protestant sects and the diffusion of the Protestant ethic , which at the very least contributed to the self-confidence and determination of the bourgeoisie , promoted a climate of opinion favourable to its activities , and perhaps hastened its triumph . |
| 11 | Some hot spots can be very localized : for example , in Konstanz , where it rained on 30 April , ground-level radiation was 15 times greater than nearby Stuttgart , which received no rain . |
| 12 | Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , who worked with him on the project , planned to be , as It predicted in late April , ‘ as experimental and as international as the Lord Chamberlain will allow ’ . |
| 13 | Since it joined in 1980 Japan has listed only four sites for protection and one of these , Lake Utonai on the northern island of Hokkaido , is now said to be threatened by secret plans to build a 40-kilometre flood control canal . |
| 14 | When it opened on 1 September 1864 an extra junction was provided from the main line at Dalry to what became known as Coltbridge junction . |
| 15 | Called the Brasserie , it opened on 1 January 1984 . |
| 16 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 17 | Although it began in southern Spain , his movement quickly spread west and north , eventually establishing its most tenacious roots in Galicia , which was to become its heartland . |
| 18 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 19 | It started in Fat Harry 's , long after the nominal closing time , across a table littered with empty glasses . |
| 20 | Smetana 's Vltava was pleasant , beautifully in tune — parts of the piece are cruel to the wind players — but it trickled into glorious Prague like a kindly trout stream , instead of surging with splendour . |
| 21 | A third technique was to sell off a proportion of the whole operation , as it did with British Telecom , British Gas , British Aerospace , and Britoil ; and British Rail was made to sell off its hotels . |
| 22 | The society now moved from the rather passive position of regretting ( as it did on 5 August 1789 ) that ‘ there was no appropriate educational establishment in England for the desired improvement of farriery ( in this context comprehending the medical treatment of horses , cattle and sheep ) by a regular education in that science on medical and anatomical principles ’ , to a positive position of recommending such an institution as had been established in France , Germany and elsewhere on the Continent , as being necessary in this country . |
| 23 | In a constructional sense the arch never dominated Italian Romanesque work as it did in northern Europe ; it remained as in Roman times , more decorative than constructional in its purpose . |
| 24 | In the summer before the crash , the dollar seemed ready to topple ( as indeed it did after Black Monday ) ; in the spring of 1991 it is soaring . |
| 25 | It emerged in late August that he had privately left the UK for a secret destination in Europe . |
| 26 | That consciousness , as it emerged in 19th-century Europe , was situated somewhere in the quadrilateral described by the points People-State-Nation- Government . |
| 27 | It appeared on 24 June 1919 . |
| 28 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 29 | Following evidence produced at the Special Commissioners ' hearing , W purported to revise the accounting period by virtue of s 247(8) , TA 1970 so that it ran from 1 February 1977 to 31 January 1978 , rather than 25 October 1977 . |
| 30 | It ran from 1–3 February in Friedberg , Germany , and brought together 300 ministers and church workers , manufacturers and scientists . |