Example sentences of "[num] it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 2 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 3 | Accordingly , the prices objective became more important in most economies , and by the middle of the 1970s it had replaced full employment as the principal objective of the UK government . |
| 4 | When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations . |
| 5 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 6 | By the year 2000 it hopes to have similar centres in its six other urban hubs — Edinburgh , Liverpool , Manchester , Leeds , Birmingham and Cardiff . |
| 7 | Together with the Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz ( RJGG , Juvenile Court Act ) of 1923 it tended to replace punitive measures with pedagogical , child-oriented principles and to set standards for national youth departments in every part of the country ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 , p. 99 ) . |
| 8 | Since 1961 it has offered preparatory courses and annual examinations for a Certificate in Church Music . |
| 9 | This belief is firmly backed up by the experience of the West German government when in 1965 it attempted to bring criminal charges against nine Chemie Grunenthal executives who were indicted for causing bodily harm and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug thalidomide . |