Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 2 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 3 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 4 | With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside . |
| 5 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 6 | Thus was opened the Grand Union , aptly named , for it forged the last link of the ambitious grand design to connect the East Midlands coalfields to London , a total distance of 168 miles . |
| 7 | It required the next generation of researchers and a simpler mollusc to come closer to finding god 's favourite . |
| 8 | It represented the first deployment of German armed forces outside German territory since the Second World War . |
| 9 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
| 10 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |