Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Te Deum was never the most popular text amongst composers of the pre-Baroque , but in the eighteenth century it enjoyed a new , though rather limited , vogue : from Purcell and Handel to Haydn , festive settings with large and colourful forces became the norm . |
| 2 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 3 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 4 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 5 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 6 | Mm , we went back to the heat in , and the last week it rained every single day . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 8 | Last year it mounted a formidable campaign against the reforms : posters mocked Mr Clarke for ignoring medical advice , and leaflets in every surgery criticised the government for undermining the NHS . |
| 9 | Last year it received a clear 84 per cent majority and then the Campaign was then asked to submit a draft statement to the policy review . |
| 10 | Last year it completed a multi-million pound contract to supply seal tubes for the Norwegian Troll gas field , and had hoped to spread deeper into the offshore sector . |
| 11 | Last year it broadened an earlier agreement with Venezuela and Ecuador . |
| 12 | Last year it introduced a joint venture with British Airways — the BA Corporate Card , which offered business travellers special deals on BA flights . |
| 13 | With the company preparing to celebrate half a century in the town next year it meant a Royal ending could be written into its story . |
| 14 | At its last meeting on the 11th June it passed the following resolution : |