Example sentences of "[prep] [num] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular . |
2 | Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater . |
3 | After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) . |
4 | During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain . |
5 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
6 | For an exciting moment at the beginning of 1918 it seemed possible that the pacifists might push Labour into collision with a Government still adamant that nothing short of overwhelming military victory could provide the basis for peace . |
7 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
8 | About the middle of 1942 it became evident that in order to make the night bombing raids over Germany more effective , some form of air marking would have to be developed to guide the aircraft more accurately to their targets . |
9 | In the summer and autumn of 1989 it seemed possible that this might no longer be true . |
10 | At the beginning of 1989 it remained uncertain whether this unenthusiastic recognition would survive the vicissitudes of negotiation . |
11 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
12 | By the standards of 1961-or , perhaps , today — it was radical stuff , by the style of 1967 it seemed passé . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | In view of waning Axis fortunes in the summer of 1944 it seemed curious that when the Spanish Foreign Minister , Jordana , died in August he was replaced by Spain 's ambassador to occupied France , José Felix Lequerica Erquiza , a man of known Axis sympathies . |
15 | During 1902 it became evident that larger capacity cars would be needed for the main Norbury — Purley line and fifteen were ordered , ten to belong to the Corporation and five to the B.E.T . |
16 | During 1978 it became apparent that the existing methods of storing and handling personnel information were inadequate and in need of urgent review . |
17 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
18 | In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living . |
19 | ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . ) |
20 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
21 | In 771 it seemed likely that Desiderius would join forces with Carloman against Charles , but in December of that year , the younger Frankish king died . |
22 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
23 | In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers . |
24 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
25 | In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ . |
26 | In 1990/1 it contributed 27 per cent of all tax receipts — not more , it is important to note . |
27 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
28 | In 1971–79 it approved financial assistance amounting to £87.5 million ( at 1979 prices ) for the Highlands and Islands as a whole , of which £52.2 million for loans and shares ( including projects directly administered by the Board ) and £35.4 million grants ( see Appendix 3 ) . |
29 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
30 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |