Example sentences of "it [vb past] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It recommended merging the three , often competitive , branches of the security services , as well as disarming the gendarmerie . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It admitted adding the chlorine only after large numbers of consumers had demanded to know why their water tasted so strongly of the chemical . |
| 6 | Bishop was glad it was too small to see : it made suppressing the imagined screams of the people inside that much easier . |
| 7 | Apparently it involved developing the muscles of the pelvic floor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade . |
| 11 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The third initiative was somewhat different from all the proceedings one , in that it involved joining a Community Club sponsored by the Alvey Programme . |
| 14 | It involved thrusting a lighted taper into little glass jars and applying them in great haste to Jean-Claude 's back , which would bubble up under them in balloons of skin . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When in 1795 it began holding a series of open-air demonstrations in London , surprising numbers seem to have attended — possibly more than 100,000 , given the tendency for such occasions to become " fairs " with women and children attending as well as men . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It took about nine months before it started getting a grip of us really . |
| 23 | Actually it started getting a bit better from when I telephoned . |
| 24 | cos I had a right old attitude , I mean , I mean , I know it sounds modest , but , I was doing it well , do n't get me wrong , I was doing it , and I , but then it started getting a bit |
| 25 | It started getting a little bit stressful in fact , yes ? |
| 26 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It kept whistling every now and then . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You do not get a good spread of risk and it kept putting the premiums up . |
| 30 | 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 . |