Example sentences of "it [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She released her hair from its restraining band ; it tumbled in heavy red-gold waves past her shoulder-blades , and she shampooed it with her favourite herbal shampoo . |
| 2 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 3 | It operated in 69 countries worldwide . |
| 4 | It operated in many markets , and its competitors were all over the world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 7 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
| 8 | Perhaps , too , the darker minds , full of rancour and disharmony , anger , lust , egotism , greed and intense attachment to the things of this world , takes the hell it experienced in physical life into its own world of mental hell when deprived of the physical form . |
| 9 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 10 | It lived in back streets of terrace houses and on sprawling housing estates . |
| 11 | It lived in freshwater lakes in southern Pangaea in the later Permian , and became less of a sprawler , swinging its limbs from the shoulders to the hips , thus lengthening its stride . |
| 12 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 14 | What it lacked in glossy technique it made up for in sincerity . |
| 15 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 16 | For example , manufacturing employment fell in London between 1960 and 1981 by 51 per cent , in Birmingham by 41 per cent , in Manchester by 46 per cent , while it expanded in rural areas by 24 per cent . |
| 17 | He sat in shirt-sleeved , patriarchal majesty and his spreading , black waistcoat ( the shiny back of it cracked in long lines ) was strung with an impressive gold watch-chain , of the style favoured by Victorian pit-owners . |
| 18 | Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter . |
| 19 | The Cessna 182 was coming in to land at High Wycombe , Bucks , when it crashed in nearby Hambleden . |
| 20 | Rather , it occurred in four dimensions : the three to which we are accustomed , plus time . |
| 21 | This makes time appear to slow down so that we remember the details of an accident , such as a car crash , as though it occurred in slow motion . |
| 22 | Erm how many men would we need if we wanted it built in four hours . |
| 23 | The exhibition includes some delicately-worked gold jewellery , most of it found in Celtic tombs in the past 100 years : typically gold or silver torques , or saddle and bridle decorations of gold , silver , coral and enamel . |
| 24 | When it surfaced in International Relations in the mid-1960s , its advocates called themselves ‘ Behaviouralists ’ . |
| 25 | It referred in that connection to paragraph 13 of the judgment in the Pesca Valentia case . |
| 26 | It referred in that connection to article 8 of the Convention of 1986 . |
| 27 | It referred in that connection to Ordre des Avocats au Barreau de Paris v. Klopp ( Case 107/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 2971 and Commission of the European Communities v. Belgium . |
| 28 | It also stressed that the quotas constituted a derogation from the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , and it referred in that connection to the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 . |
| 29 | The fact that he wore a hat with a daffodil in it helped in this respect , he felt . |
| 30 | It mounted in voluptuous harmony , second by second . |