Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 2 | In March 1991 it won an important case when the strongly integrationist European Court of Justice condoned Brussels ' ability to rule on public service monopolies without the approval of EC member states , despite the fact that the Court 's principal legal adviser , the Advocate General , called for the Commission 's powers to be restricted under Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 3 | She opened her factory , Coade and Seely , in Lambeth in 1769 which at first , in keeping with the times , manufactured ornaments of classical inspiration , but by the 1840s it showed the pronounced influence of the early Victorian decorative style . |
| 4 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
| 5 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 6 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 7 | The aircraft was on charter to fly passengers from Norwich to Gothenburg , Sweden , and during the morning of 12 Dec 73 it made an uneventful positioning flight from Oslo , Norway , to Norwich where it landed at 1228 hours . |
| 8 | For the year to March 31 it made a pre-tax loss of £9.8m , compared with a massive £448.4m last time . |
| 9 | In 1950 , the group established the Daily Graphic in the Gold Coast , and in 1952 it bought the Daily Mail of Sierra Leone . |
| 10 | In 1981 it had a total income of 171 million pounds for the whole year . |
| 11 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 12 | Or in 1982 the Navy would fight the Falklands , the very spot where in 1914 it won a spectacular victory and uncannily on both occasions the flagship was called Invincible . |
| 13 | In 1977 it launched a British arm and began to campaign against everything from seal culling to nuclear weapons testing . |
| 14 | In 1966 it produced the closest contest of any post-war election with a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts . |
| 15 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 16 | Between 1971 and 1980 local authority and new town completions averaged 143,000 dwellings a year , but in 1981 the figure plummeted to 68,000 and in 1987 it reached an all-time low of 22,000 . |
| 17 | In 1987 it formed a joint venture with Burmin Exploration and Development , a company whose Managing Director , Des Burke , is a former Cistercian monk and a former geologist for Tara , to exploit the gold find . |
| 18 | Although the company made a net profit of $10.5 million in 1987 it took a hard-line response over the strike : out of the 5000 who went out , 2000 workers were estimated to have been sacked . |
| 19 | And in its $1.7 billion purchase of Stauffer , another American chemicals firm , in 1987 it did a passable impersonation of Hanson , paying for most of the bid with $1.15 billion of asset sales . |
| 20 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 21 | Reporting in 1935 it advocated the fullest adoption of the planned distribution of industry and population based on garden city development . |
| 22 | In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index . |
| 23 | But even in February 1980 it doubted the long-term viability of this mechanism and pointed to potential LDCs ' debt servicing problems for banks . |
| 24 | By the early part of the 18th century , a forge occupied the site , and by 1736 it had an annual output of around 60 tons . |
| 25 | On Nov. 15 it ordered the French car group Renault to repay some F 12,000 million ( approximately equivalent to USdollars 1,900 million as Nov. 13 , 1989 ) of state aid received since 1988 , having already demanded the repayment of F 111,200,000 from the Peugeot group in respect of a cheap credit deal . |
| 26 | The UFF killed a Catholic on Jan. 9 , and on Jan. 15 it killed a Protestant builder who it claimed had been an informer for the security forces . |
| 27 | From nineteen fifty one to fifty two it re-graduated the progressive tax rates , raising the bottom rate from six percent in the same threshold of a hundred and fifty per capita per annum , and lowering the top rate to twenty five percent . |
| 28 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 29 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 30 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |