Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In 1950 , the group established the Daily Graphic in the Gold Coast , and in 1952 it bought the Daily Mail of Sierra Leone .
3 In 1966 it produced the closest contest of any post-war election with a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts .
4 In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin .
5 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 .
6 Reporting in 1935 it advocated the fullest adoption of the planned distribution of industry and population based on garden city development .
7 In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index .
8 But even in February 1980 it doubted the long-term viability of this mechanism and pointed to potential LDCs ' debt servicing problems for banks .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 However , in late October 1990 it approved the proposed purchase by Air France of its two domestic counterparts in the French market , Air Inter and UTA [ see also p. 38123 ] .
13 In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution .
14 When I re-installed MS DOS 3.3 it altered the original CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to the ones I 've included with this letter .
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