Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Redpath had seen violent death in many forms , and to some extent the technical problems it involved clouded the human side of it . |
| 2 | The ANC , while welcoming the plan for the constitution to be drafted by an elected body , rejected other aspects of the proposals which it believed left the government as " both player and referee " in the first period of the transition . |
| 3 | It declared reinstated the 1938 Constitution to underpin a provisional new " basic law " , and terminated the validity of the April 20 , 1978 , Soviet Lithuanian Constitution and of the 1977 USSR Constitution as it had previously applied on Lithuanian territory . |
| 4 | The International Union for the Conservation of Nature had strongly urged cancellation of the project , which it feared threatened the integrity of one of the world 's most important wetlands . |
| 5 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 6 | THE Kremlin ordered four restive Soviet republics last night to drop a series of controversial new laws which it said contravened the constitution , Tass reported . |
| 7 | THE Kremlin ordered four restive Soviet republics last night to drop a series of controversial new laws which it said contravened the constitution , Tass reported . |
| 8 | The Commonwealth Tournament , which includes sides from Canada , Australia and New Zealand , takes place on a four-year cycle , and Britain has not lifted the trophy since it lasted hosted the event , at Ganton , in 1975 . |
| 9 | The Whig group led by the Marquis of Rockingham provided , in the 1760s and 1770s , the first example of this ; while many of the ideas for which it stood inspired the somewhat similar group led by Charles James Fox in the 1780s and 1790s . |