Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 32 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |
| 33 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 34 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 35 | In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan . |
| 36 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
| 37 | The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours . |
| 38 | In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne . |
| 39 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 40 | When it reported in 1955 it demanded less permissiveness , not more . |
| 41 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 42 | In January 1990 it included 5,953 names , of whom 4,141 were men . |
| 43 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 44 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 45 | During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland , a commercial bank based in upstate New York ; Carroll , McEntee & McGinley ( CM&M ) , a primary dealer in American Treasury bonds ; and James Capel , a London firm of stockbrokers . |
| 46 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
| 47 | After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) . |
| 48 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 49 | On March 11th it named 35 people who , it said , had probably been murdered by ‘ government forces ’ since November 1988 . |
| 50 | Kepler , too , spoke of an enhanced status for the earth : At last it enjoyed legal citizenship in the heavens . |
| 51 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |