Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 2 | But on the Stock Exchange the shares boom was stopped in its tracks after the Bank of England warned there would be no immediate cut . |
| 3 | With extremely heavy losses , the advance of the 77th Brigade over Talou Ridge was stopped in its tracks . |
| 4 | Alter two long years of hard work , the Corsair took to the air once again on August 22 , 1976 as NX1337A. and , after the required air test schedule , it was repainted in its original ‘ 15F.22 ’ markings , complete with the black and yellow Suez stripes . |
| 5 | At the TUC conference , which was intended by its chairman , David Basnett , to be a pre-election rally , the premier displayed some unwonted frivolity , singing an old music-hall song about ‘ There she was , waiting at the church ’ . |
| 6 | World starvation was halted in its tracks , Henry became a hero of the gossip columns , and everybody had one hell of a good time . |
| 7 | It is time that envy was reinstated in its rightful place , as one of the basic data of individual and social psychology . |
| 8 | ‘ I can not say that it was withdrawn for its political content . ’ |
| 9 | This reasoning alone casts doubt on the idea that the Earth 's own moon was formed from its orbiting dust grains . |
| 10 | Mr Jackson , a well established trader , has apparently left without trace and his shop was stripped of its goods . |
| 11 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 12 | A hole ‘ as big as two buses ’ was ripped in its side . |
| 13 | He may have been West Midlands Chief Constable when it 's squad was exposed for its creative-writing skills , but he was not to blame . |
| 14 | It was also the same day and night and throughout the year , even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun . |
| 15 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |
| 16 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 was limited in its application to civil proceedings and did not extend to bankruptcy proceedings , which were the subject of a statutory scheme set out in the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Insolvency Rules 1986 ; that in bankruptcy proceedings the privilege against self-incrimination was abrogated by the Rules , and section 433 of the Act of 1986 rendered statements made in such proceedings admissible in evidence ‘ in any proceedings ; ’ and that , accordingly , the judge 's ruling that the documents were admissible was correct ( post , pp. 499C–E , H — 500B ) . |
| 17 | Only municipal socialism offered any coherent alternative , but this was limited by its restriction to the local level ; the balance of power went against it and it has now been thrown back . |
| 18 | Unfortunately I did not fully understand that the usefulness of the machine was limited by its memory capacity and the extent to which not having a hard disk would limit my son 's use of the machine . |
| 19 | It was measured at between 6.5 and 7 on the Richter scale , but its destructive force was limited by its depth — 100-150 km beneath the earth 's surface [ for 1977 Romanian earthquake which killed 1,500 see p. 28298 ] . |
| 20 | Lord Denning decided that if the clause was limited by its perceived object it applied only to such part of the GUS group as operated within the UK . |
| 21 | Close under the grey buttresses of the wall one of the long stones was propped on its side , the grave beside it laid open to the frosty sky . |
| 22 | With the growing awareness of the scale of financing which would be necessary for urgent economic and environmental projects in Eastern Europe , there was some recognition that the EBRD could only be one of several sources of funds , but emphasis was given to its potential as a co-ordinating and technical assistance agency . |
| 23 | Larsen saw that the skylight through which they had entered was situated at its midpoint , its twin a few feet away on the opposite slope of the roof . |
| 24 | The principal matter discussed by Kaifu during his tour of the region was the apportionment of Japanese financial support to those states worst affected by the crisis , the scale of which was intended to demonstrate Japan 's commitment to opposing the Iraqi action , even though the country was debarred by its Constitution from any overseas military involvement . |
| 25 | The brass ( originally in the nave ) was placed in its present position when the church was restored . |
| 26 | In the PLO 's case this was compounded by its mercurial and ambiguous policy statements , and by the acts of terror committed by members of the Palestinian movement . |
| 27 | Disapproval of the government was compounded by its lack of clarity over plans to rebuild the mosque . |
| 28 | The Northern Ireland Office was shaken to its foundations and accepted that it had to curtail drastically the activities of the Provisional IRA and be seen to move against the more violent gangsters in loyalist urban districts . |
| 29 | In the face of self-proclaimed Western universalism , Islamic and Arabic culture was shaken to its foundation . |
| 30 | The mood of self-assured hubris among economists of this period was shaken to its very foundations in the later years of the 1960s . |