Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having grabbed the initiative , Washington brusquely rebuffed the USSR when , anxious to gain credit in the Middle East and to distract attention from its own armed intervention in Hungary , it proposed joint action with the USA against the Anglo-French operation . |
| 2 | It compared this expectation with the actual unemployment rate . |
| 3 | changes in the rates and er it caused endless problems with the whole industry and in fact the country |
| 4 | It comprised annual colonoscopy with pancolonic biopsy . |
| 5 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 6 | It faced growing dissatisfaction with certain members of the royal family , in particular Queen Aishwarya , who as a former commoner considered to have undue influence was more vulnerable to criticism than King Birendra . |
| 7 | It opened last night with a jazz session , but tonight the focus turns to bluegrass and Irish traditional tunes . |
| 8 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 9 | ( It cut less ice with Romanian miners in 1977 , for which see chapter VI below . ) |
| 10 | Lois Schwoerer , for example , believes that the constitutional settlement of 1689 was an emphatic , though qualified , victory for Whig principles , since it established limited monarchy with ultimate sovereignty residing in the House of Commons . |
| 11 | However , in August Saudi Arabia dealt the government a severe blow when it established diplomatic relations with the mainland . |
| 12 | It normalized daily life with access for the population across the ‘ open bridge ’ to Jordan . |
| 13 | Instead it meant hard work with a capital H for all the fifteen or so staff . |
| 14 | It generated further disillusionment with fine tuning and , indeed , with Keynesianism in general . |
| 15 | It accompanied this request with a paper entitled ‘ Future Management of AFE and distribution of the 1982/83 AFE pool ’ , outlining the criteria which the short-term machinery would have to meet and stressing that the paper had been prepared ‘ purely as a basis for further discussion between the Department and the local authorities ’ . |
| 16 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 17 | In fact it was already a quality of Britten 's music before Grimes that it said new things with material which , on closer inspection , often turned out to be surprisingly familiar and straightforward . |
| 18 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 19 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 20 | It had regular contacts with Constantinople , notwithstanding its northern position ( near the city of Leningrad ) , by means of the river Dnieper and the Black Sea . |
| 21 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 22 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 23 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 24 | It was the first contact between the LDP and the North Korean government , and marked a significant shift in policy by the latter communist regime , which had hitherto rejected overtures from the Japanese government on the grounds that it had diplomatic relations with South Korea . |
| 25 | Cedars , he told them , was a special school because it had special teachers with special skills and training . |
| 26 | Quorum , which says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple Computer Inc , which held up financing and staffing , will position the product as a Mac application adaptor rather than an emulator . |
| 27 | Quorum , who says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple ( UX No 393 ) which held up financing and staffing , will position Equal as a Mac application adapter rather than an emulator . |
| 28 | It had some connection with the Bronte sisters , and two of the houses in the dale , High Hall and Whernside Manor , may have been the models for Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange . |
| 29 | Its platform was explicitly anti-immigration , although it denied any sympathy with neo-Nazis . |