Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson 's next work , An Essay on Bread ( 1758 ) , defended bakers and millers against malpractice charges levelled by Peter Markham [ q.v. ] and Joseph Manning , and it represents the first reliable book on the chemical detection of food adulteration . |
| 2 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 3 | It became the second great text and was to last as an authoritative collection for all Roman Catholics until the revision of the canon law in 1918 and the publication of the Codex . |
| 4 | In the wake of the Russian revolution , which she supported passionately , it became the first Communist party in Great Britain . |
| 5 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 6 | Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara , says it has the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database . |
| 7 | It has the first analytical group to hold Good Laboratory Practice ( GLP ) , National Measurement Accreditation Service ( NAMAS ) and ISO9001 certificates simultaneously . |
| 8 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 9 | On single bed work , where a needle is tucking , it holds the last knitted stitch , plus collecting a loop of yarn every time , until these are all knitted off together when the needle is programmed next to knit . |
| 10 | According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It marks the first genuine attempt to bring alive the remarkable range of heritage and culture which has sustained the area for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 12 | Next in the score comes the Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa ; this is in Q1692 , but there , curiously , it lacks the last four lines of its text : |
| 13 | It constituted the first comprehensive review of management development since the mid-1970s , and the first time that management development requirements were discussed nationally in the context of an explicit notion of ‘ management ’ . |
| 14 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 15 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 16 | It established the first international trading link with the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) in 1984 . |
| 17 | Instead , Nijinsky came to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a uniquely testing season — unique because it included the first Triple Crown since 1935 . |
| 18 | Early in November it called a second general strike to protest against the repressive measures being taken at the naval base of Kronstadt , in Poland , and elsewhere . |
| 19 | Early in November it called a second general strike . |
| 20 | It saw the first public flotation of a building society , the first moves towards acquisition of a major bank , Girobank , by another society , some further widening of building society powers , a tendency for more societies to become ‘ tied agents ’ of insurance companies and further excursions by societies into the wider field of financial services . |
| 21 | It represented the second successive decline and was viewed as another sign that the economy is growing , albeit slowly . |
| 22 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 23 | On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course . |
| 24 | Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels . |
| 25 | It possessed the first water-driven factory to be erected in Lancashire ( 1777 ) . |
| 26 | It marked the second French defeat in a year ; it fully restored to the English their military reputation which was no longer seen to depend on one man , Henry V ; and , most important of all , it opened the way southwards for further advance into central France . |
| 27 | It gave a last deep cry , its teeth closed on the empty air , and it fell to the ground . |
| 28 | First , it omits the first two years of the Thatcher government 's record , when output fell 3.5 per cent . |
| 29 | However it claims the first three months of 1993 have proved profitable and reported that debt amounted to less than $3.3m . |
| 30 | It spans the first 15 years of the disease , from its appearance in the early 1950s to the Japanese government 's official statement that mercury pollution was to blame . |