Example sentences of "it [vb past] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 2 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the Church could not preserve men 's minds from modern heresy ; it failed in the campaign to exclude ‘ dangerous ’ books nor could it prevent the influence of contacts established by Aranda and others with the French intellectuals . |
| 4 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 7 | To monitor the course of the project , that is , to study the implementation of the action project design , to find out whether it operated in the way envisaged , using the means planned , and to examine any problems which arose and any unanticipated consequences . |
| 8 | The tribunal was told that , following a review , the company decided to make redundant 16 drivers at the quarries it operated in the East Midlands . |
| 9 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 10 | But it operated in an entirely different way from the older service already operating . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Vizigothic in origin , with its Bishop Boèce at the Third Toledo Council in 589 , and worth besieging in 673 , it shared in the collapse of the Spanish kingdom of Toledo , and the Muslims moved in , though not for long . |
| 13 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 14 | It got in the way when she had tried to cry yet it allowed no room for self-pity . |
| 15 | It rippled in the light breeze like a sea . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It passed in a flash of man-made , unnatural colour , glittering here and there and brighter than a winter holly tree . |
| 18 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 19 | The Primarch 's dead limbs were momentarily restored , all be it clad in a semblance of translucent rotting tissue . |
| 20 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 21 | Polonium is a strong alpha emitter , however , until the Americans made an atomic bomb , no one had ever used polonium in any appreciable amount ; it was so radioactive that it glowed in the dark . |
| 22 | Pascoe watched a globe as it glowed in the darkness , then rose and fell in a sizzling arc . |
| 23 | Liturgically , it centred in the sacrament of the eucharist : there was the heart and focus of the life and worship of the church , the key and core of its participation in the life of Christ . |
| 24 | The third element that made Easy Rider the runaway , roaraway success that it became in the counter-culture movement was Jack Nicholson , angry and surely envious — though he denied it — at seeing some of his flash contemporaries and some younger actors making it very big indeed in the legitimacy of more sumptuous surroundings of Warners , Paramount , MGM and the rest . |
| 25 | Beginning as a noun of process — the culture ( cultivation ) of crops or ( rearing and breeding ) of animals , and by extension the culture ( active cultivation ) of the human mind — it became in the late eighteenth century , especially in German and English , a noun of configuration or generalization of the ‘ spirit ’ which informed the ‘ whole way of life ’ of a distinct people . |
| 26 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 27 | It skidded in an arc … mounted the kerb and ploughed through the bench where the children were sitting . |
| 28 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 29 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 30 | He went on to add that some of the ancient magic could still be found in its raw state , recognisable — to the initiated — by the eightfold shape it made in the crystalline structure of space-time . |