Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 2 | The Dane Valdemar Poulsen invented his ‘ Telegraphone ’ in 1898 and patented it in 1900 , but ( as with commercial electrical recording ) amplification was needed before it could become practicable . |
| 3 | The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 . |
| 4 | Böhme , a 45-year-old historian , joined the former SED at the age of 17 but left it in 1976 in protest at the persecution of intellectuals . |
| 5 | Trace the shape in figure 1 and transfer it to thin cardboard . |
| 6 | So at this juncture you should be making a copy of bar one and calling it bar three . |
| 7 | Do n't try and do any sums on it and think ooh I 'll square one and add it on half the other . |
| 8 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 9 | This research completes the analysis of a large quantity of data , collected under a previous ESRC grant , relating to the height , age , occupation and place of birth and residence of approximately 250,000 males born in Britain between 1730 and 1880 and relates it to other historical and contemporary data on height and its correlates . |
| 10 | Buy a bottle at five to two and leave it at two o'clock . |
| 11 | As the more doggedly political of the two , Reid in particular despised Richard Branson as an ‘ entrepreneur hippie ’ who had sold out everything that was exciting and subversive about the Sixties and turned it into big business . |