Example sentences of "[prep] [num] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the United States regulated its coinage under the legislation of 1792 it displayed independence by designating the silver dollar as the basic unit . |
| 2 | When the White Paper on Educational Reconstruction was published in 1943 it contained references to three possible ‘ types ’ of secondary schools — grammar , technical , and modern . |
| 3 | Since then , training has become an increasingly important part of CEPRA 's activities and in 1986 it joined forces with the Association of Native Language Communicators to set up a three-year communication diploma course for native language speakers . |
| 4 | ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson . |
| 5 | In 1991 it received payment from a client for work done and billed ( but without a VAT charge ) prior to October 1986 . |
| 6 | In 1991 it assumed responsibility for its own catering , with total revenue increasing by 60 per cent partly as a result . |
| 7 | Take China : in 1984 it imported $300 million worth of components to make 120,000 computers . |
| 8 | In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory . |
| 9 | In 1976 it spent £24 million on renewing its railways and structures — £48 million at today 's prices . |
| 10 | In 1908 it assured shareholders that it was ‘ now remunerative ’ , the prelude of course to going out of business in 1910 . |
| 11 | In 1981 it spent £252 million . |
| 12 | In 1928 it cost £25 per gram , but by 1974 it was as low as £40 per kilogram . |
| 13 | In 1987 it registered profits of an impressive £6.2 million . |
| 14 | Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc , announced in 1987 it found gold three miles west of Omagh , Co . |
| 15 | In 1966 it received $130 million , of which 71 per cent was in military assistance , more in fact than the cumulative total of military assistance from 1948 . |
| 16 | The colonial government entered the field of the press soon after the German defeat when in 1923 it introduced Mambo Leo ( ‘ Affairs of Today ’ ) . |
| 17 | It was very difficult to keep in working order , and when the emperor Charles V saw it in Pavia in 1529 it needed repair . |
| 18 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
| 19 | For example , in 1989 it charged Dr James Sharp over his adoptive immunotherapy treatment with ‘ advising and treating patients with AIDS , AIDS related complex and HIV infection without sufficient knowledge , training or experience to treat the conditions competently ’ and ‘ offering the treatment without proper clinical trials … and despite inadequate independent scientific evidence to support it . ’ |
| 20 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 21 | In 1965 it received $71 million , of which 20 per cent was for military use . |
| 22 | CUC then became increasingly active as an independent body in support of the universities , e.g. in 1983 it made submissions to the UGC on the Swinnerton-Dyer 28 question circular . |
| 23 | In 1983 it bought Unimation , a company credited with inventing the industrial robot . |
| 24 | In 1988 it played host to a visiting exhibition of impressionist paintings borrowed from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad . |
| 25 | In 1944 it took courage to write so favourably about Pound ; and it may even be that Phyllis Bottome foresaw , and was trying to guard against , the peril that Pound would be in as soon as hostilities should be over . |
| 26 | From 1905 to 1914 it produced Dursley–Pedersen bicycles . |