Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it agreed to a demand that Gdlyan and Ivanov be dismissed from working in the Procuracy , and in a resolution it warned them that their parliamentary immunity from prosecution could yet be withdrawn if they persisted in making " groundless " statements attacking the country 's leaders . |
| 2 | It agreed after a difficult session ( marked by objections from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union over terminology ) to recommend the dispatch of an EC-based mission to Yugoslavia to supervise the fragile ceasefire , and also to send a CSCE " good offices " mission to assist political dialogue . |
| 3 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 4 | It applied to a special form of law embodied as a matter of convenience in a single document . |
| 5 | I , I , I think Chairman that on the , the case to which you refer as , as I recollect it was very much on the specific wording of the er restriction which erm was found to fail , because it applied to a number of houses and not to a specific property and er clearly care will have to be given by the districts that happens in imposing conditions to make sure that it will erm appertain to each individual property within a development so that the occupancy condition can be can be informed . |
| 6 | There was a rival party in the field , the Ghana Congress party ( GCP ) , founded in 1952 by Dr Busia ; it included several of the erstwhile UGCC leaders , but despite some impressive names it operated from a narrow base . |
| 7 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 8 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 9 | The population of Britain was to rise from between seven and eight million in 1760 to 15 million in 1820 — in other words , it doubled in a period of 60 years . |
| 10 | It succeeded at a stroke in reducing tenanted land from over 45 per cent of the cultivated area to under 10 per cent . |
| 11 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 12 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 13 | At times it got beyond a joke . |
| 14 | It has n't eaten though the whole $30m it got as a dowry to start up . |
| 15 | And it got to a point where I could n't move . |
| 16 | Erm , so I was constantly getting rises , less my service pay and erm it got to a state there where sometimes my service pay was more than what the erm salary I would have got at home was and my wife had to pay to keep my superannuation live . |
| 17 | The government had better learn to reach compromises with its own MPs before it got into a pickle . |
| 18 | It was immediately obvious that as the Cayman quarter mostly comprised aluminium , it registered as a foil on the meter of my Whites 5900 Di Pro SL . |
| 19 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 20 | It planned for a more open democracy to include a revision of " anti-terrorism " legislation and improvements in the field of human rights , media censorship and academic freedom . |
| 21 | From John it passed to a cousin , then to his niece , Susannah Sharpe ( the ghost ) . |
| 22 | The numbers against it were still high ( 250 ) , but it passed with a respectable majority and was ready for promulgation . |
| 23 | A canal had been dug by French prisoners of war from what is now Dartmoor Prison , and it passed through a 2-mile-long tunnel to the hillside above the quay . |
| 24 | The real issue with the voters was de Gaulle himself , and the General reinforced that perception by warning that he would resign if the proposed change was rejected or even if it passed by a slim majority . |
| 25 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 26 | It passed in a flash of man-made , unnatural colour , glittering here and there and brighter than a winter holly tree . |
| 27 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal did not consider that the second notice was invalid because it amounted to a means of depriving the employee of his statutory rights . |
| 29 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 30 | Lentricchia 's argument was quickly endorsed by Terry Eagleton who claimed first that poststructuralism represented a ‘ hedonist withdrawal from history ’ ( aestheticism ) and , a year later , that it amounted to a more menacing holocaust-like ‘ liquidation of history ’ . |