Example sentences of "it [vb past] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this it met with the approval of the US Senate , as it avoided committing the USA to any action overseas , while answering the great yearning of the American people for peace in the world . |
| 2 | It recommended merging the three , often competitive , branches of the security services , as well as disarming the gendarmerie . |
| 3 | It recommended reducing the size of train crews , increasing wages by an average of 3-4 per cent per year over the next three years , and the payment by workers of a proportion of their health care costs . |
| 4 | It admitted adding the chlorine only after large numbers of consumers had demanded to know why their water tasted so strongly of the chemical . |
| 5 | Bishop was glad it was too small to see : it made suppressing the imagined screams of the people inside that much easier . |
| 6 | Apparently it involved developing the muscles of the pelvic floor . |
| 7 | Designed to bolster internal discipline , streamline military structures , cut costs , and discourage military involvement in politics , it involved regrouping the 43,000-strong Army into six regional divisions . |
| 8 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 9 | British public opinion welcomed the Charter but for the government it involved repudiating the policies of protection and imperial preference , adopted in the depths of the world depression . |
| 10 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 11 | A German draft monetary union treaty presented on Feb. 26 was critically received , principally because it envisaged delaying the establishment of an EC central bank until at least 1997 . |
| 12 | However , it was also acknowledged that the task set before the filmmakers was so large that it defied reducing the complex series of events into a simple formula drama . |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp says that sales of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade topped 3m copies in April , the first month after it began shipping the product , bettering the previous record set by MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 upgrades combined ; sales of the upgrade were still supply-constrained , resulting in a backlog . |
| 14 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 15 | Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller . |
| 16 | We had one of those leagues at uni last year and it was immensely popular to the extent that they banned it because the memory banks of the system were chock a block with it and it kept causing the system to crash . |
| 17 | ‘ You do not get a good spread of risk and it kept putting the premiums up . |
| 18 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 19 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 20 | ‘ It meant breaking the gates down . |
| 21 | such informal group norms were important to the workers even to the extent that an individual worker might refuse promotion if it meant leaving the group ; |
| 22 | She turned in that direction even though it meant leaving the path . |
| 23 | Such pugilistic interludes were usually short-lived however , for it meant incurring the wrath of the landlord , one Nathanial Nelmes , better known as ‘ Knocker ’ . |
| 24 | Although the viewers would still see the planned number of episodes , production-wise it meant re-engaging the regular cast for an extra week 's recording : potentially expensive as contracts would need to be re-negotiated . |
| 25 | In his notice of appeal he contends that the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission made on his behalf that any consideration of the welfare of the children in the context of the exercise of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was only relevant as a material factor if it meant placing the children in an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 26 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 27 | Only because it meant knocking the others over like , you know . |
| 28 | Not by cheating … but if it meant trimming the petals with a pair of scisasors ten minutes before walking out the hall and the judge wo n't notice it … |
| 29 | In practice , it meant protecting the broadcasters from politicians and pressure groups more than the other way round . |
| 30 | The new French Agriculture and Forestry Minister , Louis Mermaz , said that France would not be pushed into an accord even if it meant extending the December deadline for completing the GATT talks . |