Example sentences of "it [vb past] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week it agreed in principle that Switzerland could take part in projects where its participation would strengthen the research effort . |
| 2 | At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed . |
| 3 | Despite the many problems which still faced the proposal to introduce an EC-wide company charter , the Commission defused some of the more acrimonious disputes surrounding company taxation , when it agreed in April 1990 to drop plans for an EC-wide system of personal and corporation tax , in favour of a policy of co-ordinating the various existing systems . |
| 4 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 5 | The share of Africa and Asia then plummeted to less than 2 per cent by 1815 , although it doubled in value . |
| 6 | Half of this increase occurred in America , where the farmed area trebled in this period ( it quintupled in Australia and grew two-and-a-half times in Canada ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , as drafted , the Agreement would allow the Purchaser to claim damages on the tortious measure as well ( essentially the difference between what the Purchaser paid and the market value of what it got in return ) because the Agreement incorporates not only warranties , but representations as well . |
| 8 | In the case of Descartes , it eventuated in laws of motion , one of which resembles the principle of linear inertia that was so basic to Newton 's analysis of the relationship between force , mass , and acceleration . |
| 9 | It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication . |
| 10 | I remember the screech of the horn and the blur of the car as it passed in front of me . |
| 11 | The author of the Anonimalle Chronicle , however , who evidently had some admiration for Gaunt 's achievement , believed that the army only began to suffer in this way when it wintered in Gascony . |
| 12 | In my dreams I was admitting the full implications of my habit of self-denial , that is , that it amounted in effect to life-denial . |
| 13 | Stretching for a good twelve feet it read in red on white THE GREAT TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY RACE TRAIN , and in blue letters a good deal smaller underneath , THE ONTARIO JOCKEY CLUB , MERRY & CO AND VIA RAIL PRESENT A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN RACING . |
| 14 | It read in part : ‘ We all need a free exchange of views about how Socialism is to be continued in this country . ’ |
| 15 | More recently , there has been widespread imitation of styles of literary-theoretical writing , much of it read in translation from French ( so occasionally incorporating features of French discourse which have survived translation ) . |
| 16 | It read in French , ‘ Dangerous Cliff ’ . |
| 17 | America 's largest commercial bank , Citicorp , plans to lop $1.5 billion a year from its annual operating costs , twice the amount it announced in December . |
| 18 | Can the hon. Gentleman confirm that that means that the average family in this country would be approximately £2,000 better off if it lived in Italy ? |
| 19 | Originally formed in January 1970 as a committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( ICAEW ) , it became in February 1976 a joint committee of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies . |
| 20 | It became in essence the very house that , had his private life been otherwise , he would have liked to live in himself . |
| 21 | The Correspondent used it , it sold in Italy , Germany and Spain . |
| 22 | It was presumably real gold , yet it somehow contrived to look brash and cheap , like junk jewellery trying to make up in flash what it lacked in value . |
| 23 | The soufflé made up in ambition for what it lacked in accomplishment , but the wine was good . |
| 24 | We take chain mail very much for granted , seeing it depicted in paintings of the time , or in recent cinematic extravaganzas . |
| 25 | Our survey of Japanese finance ( ‘ Downbeat ’ , December 8th ) included a table purporting to show Japanese banks ' BIS capital-adequacy ratios as at September 1990 , attributed to James Capel and from a study it made in October 1990 . |
| 26 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 27 | The concern for independence shown by the court in this case is an interesting development , but it arose in circumstances where the court has a discretion to exercise statutory powers . |
| 28 | This sense was not merely one of self — confidence , since it arose in conjunction with a serene contempt for most of her neighbours and was not subjective , Scarlet reflected , and the glass reciprocated . |
| 29 | The implication from the provision and s741 is if the Revenue have not actually charged the income when it arose in year 1 and it is paid out in year 3 , the only charge under s739 would be in year 3 when the monies are paid out . |
| 30 | It arose in argument and action concerned with freedom , retributive and distributive justice . |