Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anorexia is a relatively modern illness er the first descriptions of it are found in the nineteenth century and today it 's er by no means an uncommon illness in er mainly in young women , very occasionally in men , but , but er y it 's more or less safe to say it 's er it 's a disease of er women and almost always younger women . |
| 2 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 3 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
| 4 | Still , make sure that it 's mentioned in the next circular , lad . |
| 5 | Check out the stats on this iceblockbuster of a game when it 's reviewed in the next cool issue of ZZAP ! |
| 6 | The aspect of society which is seen to be most important in this respect is called the dominant instance , and Althusser and his followers argue that it is determined in the last instance by the economy . |
| 7 | If the order is unopposed it is deemed on introduction into the First House to have passed the committee stage and so the procedure is quite short ; it is repeated in the Second House . |
| 8 | It is written in the 2nd person , a direct message to the dead friend . |
| 9 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |
| 13 | It was killed in the second one as well . |
| 14 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It was begun in the thirteenth century and there 's a famous inscription above the door . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 22 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 28 | It was built in the 12th century ( 1150 ) . |
| 29 | The castle of Oliveto , about 10 minutes by car from Castelfiorentino , has led a full and varied life since it was built in the 15th century . |
| 30 | It was built in the seventh century and after several restorations was finally reconstructed in 1008 . |