Example sentences of "it [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It got in the way when she had tried to cry yet it allowed no room for self-pity . |
| 11 | It rippled in the light breeze like a sea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pascoe watched a globe as it glowed in the darkness , then rose and fell in a sizzling arc . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It argued in the early days that to be too closely allied with Catholicism would deter a broad membership , which is now drawn from among protestants , muslims , baptists , Jews — and , it emphasises proudly , atheists . |
| 23 | We do not know how it arose in the meme pool . |
| 24 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 25 | It arose in the context of the thinking of people whose job it is to think big . |
| 26 | The next five years will be a battle — much of it fought in the Governor 's quarterly meeting with Lu Ping , head of Peking 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office . |
| 27 | Originally it met in the hall of the local Anglican Church . |
| 28 | It met in the evenings in the leaking old Eastern Infants School . |
| 29 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 30 | The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |