Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 2 | It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime . |
| 3 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 4 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 5 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 6 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |
| 7 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 8 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
| 9 | It was killed in the second one as well . |
| 10 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |
| 11 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |
| 12 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 13 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 14 | It was for many years claimed to be the earliest example of the true arch in Europe , but it is now recognised that it was constructed in the sixth century as an open drain and that it was only roofed over with its present stone vault of three concentric rings of radiating voussoirs in 184 B.C. Its exit into the Tiber can still be seen in Rome near the Ponte Rotto ( 68 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It was begun in the thirteenth century and there 's a famous inscription above the door . ’ |
| 16 | It was developed in the eighteenth century by writers like Hume , Mandeville and Smith and applied by Darwin in the field of biology in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The first category , compare and contrast positive and negatives , involves a comparison between positive and negative adjectives describing the person used together to form the final opinion ; for example , ‘ [ I ] weighed all good points against all bad points ’ or ‘ as far as I was able to tell , every person was described by three positive/favourable adjectives and three negative/unfavourable ones … just as an impression was formed it was negated by the 5th or 6th words , giving it a cancelling out effect . |
| 18 | It was decided at the last cash crisis meeting to get rid of the grandstand and claim the insurance , only local radio jockey , Keith Labone , thought there might be some insurance fiddle on the go . |
| 19 | And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years . |
| 20 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
| 21 | It was it 's a previous budget decision , I want to make that point , it was made before the last budget , and this has been a sort of a year of negotiations , that 's the first point and |
| 22 | It was made in the 15th century and meant to keep holy relics but , at its feet , newly married couples used to promise each other eternal love and fidelity . |
| 23 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ The French school of Rocque ’ ( as it was called in the nineteenth century ) earned an outstanding reputation in Irish cartography , but his chief memorials are his county maps and , above all , his plans of London and Dublin . |
| 25 | It was followed by the first tractors , the little grey Fergusons . |
| 26 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 27 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 28 | When a dispute arose under the contract , it was discovered for the first time that the copy returned by B had a number of terms printed on the back , in German , including a clause conferring jurisdiction in relation to disputes under the contract on the German courts . |
| 29 | You may wonder how this rather high-falutin' talk of vector spaces is related to the simpler language of wave mechanics as it was presented in the last chapter . |
| 30 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |