Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [num ord] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 2 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 3 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 4 | When Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double , who was that trainer ? |
| 5 | When Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double , who was the trainer ? |
| 6 | Nick , let's put to you the three questions ; when Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double — who was that trainer ? |
| 7 | The same typewriter had been used to address it , it bore a second class stamp and had been posted in London WC1 . |
| 8 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 9 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 10 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |