Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 2 | A number of local studies have been undertaken on what the impact of the poll tax would be had it been implemented in the 1988 — 9 financial year . |
| 3 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 4 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |
| 5 | It 's based on the two fingered symbol of peace , and although it was originally designed for lead guitars I eventually scaled it up to use on my basses ; it 's one of the features that makes them instantly recognisable . ’ |
| 6 | It is based on the ten superfamilies in which nematodes of veterinary importance occur , and which are conveniently divided into bursate and non-bursate groups as shown in Table 1 . |
| 7 | It is based on the 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and extends work done by the investigators on the 1980 Survey . |
| 8 | It is registered under the 1974 Friendly Societies Act ( Reg . |
| 9 | However , progress on all these scores is being made , and , if it is maintained into the 1990s , should help the oldest individuals to maintain their independence — and their health — for longer periods of time . |
| 10 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 11 | In Cuncliffe-Owen v Teather & Greenwood ( a Stock Exchange case ) Mr Justice Ungoed-Thomas said : " it is suggested on the one hand that this rule excluded usage of wider scope and , on the other hand , with the support of expert evidence , that it was a particular instance reflecting a wider usage . |
| 12 | Most of it was done in the seventies , some was done in the sixties . |
| 13 | It was completed in the 1980s and I was already daring to suggest that Fascism could return . |
| 14 | When , in 1968 , a new Theatres Act swept away the censorship of plays by the Lord Chamberlain , it was replaced with the 1959 test of obscenity , but added a qualifying provision that no case could be brought without the consent of the Attorney General . |
| 15 | There was only a French text of the document , but it was initialled by the two ministers , and therefore involved a substantial degree of commitment on both their parts . |
| 16 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 17 | Thought to belong to the London-based collector Nicholas Embiricos , it was formed in the 1960s and '70s , at a time when it was relatively easy to acquire pieces of known provenance for less than astronomical prices . |
| 18 | This was the most successful moment of the pledge technique , though it was employed in the 1837 election to end apprenticeship and suggested in 1841 by the BFASS to create a parliamentary bloc ready to abolish slavery in British India . |
| 19 | ( It was repealed by the 1987 Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act . ) |
| 20 | There is a clue that cuts were made ( though we can not tell how extensive — for , unlike Act 1 , Act 5 was not reprinted in 1693 : it was inherited from the 1692 stockpile ) . |
| 21 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 22 | The Southern Capital had been divided into eight segments , like slices of the round , flat loaves the Semite guest workers baked , each segment 's inner edge bisecting one of the main quarters of the town , into which it was split by the two main thoroughfares , one running north-to-south , and the other east-to-west , which met at the centre . |
| 23 | It was expressed in the Four Noble Truths , which may be paraphrased as : 1 ) Human life is characterised by frustration , meaninglessness , suffering . |
| 24 | It was said in the 1840S of a future President of the republic that he had the advantage of the ‘ magic and mystery of a name ’ . |
| 25 | In 1917 , however , it was relaid on the 1 ’ 11 ½ ’ gauge under the joint auspices of the War Department , the Board of Trade and the Forestry Commission . |
| 26 | For example , when it was discovered in the 1970s that male workers in America and Costa Rica had been made permanently sterile by a pesticide called dibromochloropropane , the substance was banned . |
| 27 | Originally a large Victorian house set in its own extensive grounds , it was converted in the 1960s into a hall of residence by the addition of a three-storey extension . |
| 28 | It was noted in the 1296 list that Plebs Varren was of no value and could not be assessed . |
| 29 | It was built during the 1620s by Sir John Winter who , by 1640 , had control over 18,000 acres of the Forest . |
| 30 | Left : In the grounds of Shrewsbury School , the house has changed very little from the outside since it was built in the 1950s |