Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 2 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 3 | The IMF said in its April 1991 forecast that it expected the US economy to shrink by 0.1 per cent in 1991 , before making a full recovery to 2.8 per cent growth in 1992 . |
| 4 | Under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act , it asked the US President to sanction retaliation if Thailand kept its doors closed . |
| 5 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 6 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 7 | It became the Winston Cup in 1970 following sponsorship by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company . |
| 8 | In later years , it became the Stroud Piano Company and later Bentley Pianos . |
| 9 | When it was chopped down it became the Amazon , its branches the many tributaries . |
| 10 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |
| 11 | It provided the leadership in February , it succeeded in opening the eyes of the more backward sections of the proletariat and the working masses to the reactionary nature of the petty-bourgeois and liberal parties , it welded the proletariat into an invincible revolutionary force and , drawing the poor peasants into alliance with them , it led the October revolution . |
| 12 | It made the need for the establishment of some form of centralized and rational planning of public sector higher education even more urgent and , in the short term , it led the DES to set up a working group to overcome the important technical problems which the arbitrary capping of the pool had created . |
| 13 | She laughed at the one from Myra ; it depicted the Gemini star sign — twins , one laughing , one thoughtful . |
| 14 | When the European Parliament 's regional policy committee last carried out a study in Northern Ireland it produced the Martin report , which resulted in £63m for housing , he added . |
| 15 | So it made the Stenness Loch polluted for the as pollution comes in the Stenness Loch and it f spoilt the fishing here . |
| 16 | Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H . |
| 17 | The incident first attracted national attention because it involved the Kennedy family , a subject which tended to elicit fiercely polarized views . |
| 18 | While this permitted access to public life by more of the natives ( standard national education was required to give access to all ) , it excluded the Europe of Latin-speakers and the immediate inheritance of religion . |
| 19 | It provided the West Bank mayors and notables with financial disbursements and economic favours . |
| 20 | The ANC for its part responded that it regarded the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) as the private army of the NP and called instead for the integration of MK and the SADF into a new national army . |
| 21 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 22 | At Leith it defeated the Ulster under-21 team 9–3 and lost 8–5 to a strong Warrender side . |
| 23 | On the evidence I have heard , it is reasonably clear that the old naval dockyard generated comparatively little heavy goods vehicle traffic and in the main it used the Pembroke Gate entrance . |
| 24 | We 've had no other reported sighting of it before it entered the Broad . |
| 25 | Altogether the Grand Trunk Canal had five tunnels and seventy-six locks on its ninetythree mile course from the Mersey to Shardlow , near which it entered the Trent . |
| 26 | Megadeth 's fifth and finest LP , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ slammed its way straight into the upper reaches of LP charts all over the globe ( it entered the US chart at a staggering No. 2 ! ) and its first single , Symphony Of Destruction , was such a hit in the UK that a Top Of The Pops appearance was simply unavoidable . |
| 27 | The Boro started with an 18–18 draw at Portobello , then , in a tournament at Hamilton , it beat the Ulster under-21 team 10–9 and drew 10–10 with a Western Scotland select team . |
| 28 | It beat the Sheffield Morning Telegraph but Hollywood was far from New York and Greenwich Village . |
| 29 | As a first step , it reiterated the UN 's long-standing call for developed countries to give 0.7 per cent of their gross domestic product as aid — a target currently missed by all but a few . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , in a little-known episode of the Community 's history , Greenland in 1984 , following unanimous agreement among the Member States , became the only state to be allowed to withdraw from the EEC ; in doing so , it reduced the EEC 's land surface area by half . |