Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear how it differs from the third tribal substage associated with settled agriculture . |
| 2 | It counts as the 20th Ecumenical Council . |
| 3 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 4 | With its tirades against the ‘ unnatural alliance ’ between capitalism and Bolshevism , it appealed to the last remaining hope — the belief in the miracle of a split between the eastern and western allies and a new alliance between the Reich and the West against Bolshevism . |
| 5 | ‘ No , it passes to the next male heir , that 's my cousin , Craig Grenfell . ’ |
| 6 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 7 | It sounds like the next public outing for the COSE crew could be at Xhibition , June 7–11 at the San Jose Convention Center in California . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend remind Opposition Members that under this Government manufacturing output has increased by a quarter whereas it fell under the last Labour Government ? |
| 9 | Does not that show that the Government could best serve the CBI by running the economy in such a way that inflation is kept down and does not reach the levels that it reached under the last Labour Government ? |
| 10 | It emerged from the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries in the USA in 1971 , and became a working reality as Project LOEX in 1972 . |
| 11 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |