Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 2 | She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time . |
| 3 | The population of the capital grew dramatically in the 18th and 19th centuries , just as it had done in the 17th , and despite the fact that its death rate was higher than the national average . |
| 4 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 5 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 6 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 7 | Still an inefficient and partly feudal force at the end of the seventeenth century , it had become by the last years of Peter I one of the most powerful in Europe . |
| 8 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 9 | The windmill was sited near the school , but it had disappeared by the second half of the 18th century . |
| 10 | It had passed for the thirteenth time when she returned her attention to the bead of light , and caught her breath . |
| 11 | Western Sahara was divided between Morocco and Mauritania under a 1975 treaty following Spain 's decision to withdraw from a region which it had controlled since the 19th century [ see pp. 27575-77 ] . |
| 12 | More importantly still , it had provided for the first time an ‘ effective ’ means of redress for those wishing to complain that interception has been improperly authorized . |
| 13 | By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy . |
| 14 | The funeral service and groupings within it had changed over the last five years . |
| 15 | With the support of the printed lines , Michael Banks 's performance regained the stature it had shown in the first scene and left no doubt that he was going to add a new excellence to The Hooded Owl . |
| 16 | It had started with the first Whistler murder . |
| 17 | But Greenpeace noted that the British government 's willingness to sign the convention as it stood was a fundamental shift in policy in that it had agreed for the first time to the elimination in principle of dangerous chemicals . |
| 18 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |
| 19 | It had happened on the last occasion as well , for Venice was delighted with Niccolò vander Poele , who had destroyed the plants and was freeing Cyprus , God be good , of the Genoese . |