Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 1830s it became the single most important cause of the death of children , peaking at four deaths per thousand children per year aged under 15 ; at worst , 30,000 deaths a year in the 1860s . |
| 2 | She opened her factory , Coade and Seely , in Lambeth in 1769 which at first , in keeping with the times , manufactured ornaments of classical inspiration , but by the 1840s it showed the pronounced influence of the early Victorian decorative style . |
| 3 | In 1950 , the group established the Daily Graphic in the Gold Coast , and in 1952 it bought the Daily Mail of Sierra Leone . |
| 4 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 5 | In 1966 it produced the closest contest of any post-war election with a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts . |
| 6 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Reporting in 1935 it advocated the fullest adoption of the planned distribution of industry and population based on garden city development . |
| 9 | In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index . |
| 10 | But even in February 1980 it doubted the long-term viability of this mechanism and pointed to potential LDCs ' debt servicing problems for banks . |
| 11 | On Nov. 15 it ordered the French car group Renault to repay some F 12,000 million ( approximately equivalent to USdollars 1,900 million as Nov. 13 , 1989 ) of state aid received since 1988 , having already demanded the repayment of F 111,200,000 from the Peugeot group in respect of a cheap credit deal . |
| 12 | From nineteen fifty one to fifty two it re-graduated the progressive tax rates , raising the bottom rate from six percent in the same threshold of a hundred and fifty per capita per annum , and lowering the top rate to twenty five percent . |
| 13 | At New Year 1983 it screened the light-hearted ‘ One In Five ’ : it has also shown the film My Beautiful Laundrette , the sitcom ‘ Cornerhouse ’ , documentaries such as ‘ Veronica 4 Rose ’ , ‘ Breaking The Silence ’ and ‘ Bright Eyes ’ , and the fictional ‘ Domestic Bliss ’ . |
| 14 | The herdbook of the Pie Rouge de l'Est was established in 1930 and in 1945 it absorbed the Alsatian Simmental and the Gex ( another Swiss Simmental derivative , in northeast Ain ) . |
| 15 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 16 | However , in late October 1990 it approved the proposed purchase by Air France of its two domestic counterparts in the French market , Air Inter and UTA [ see also p. 38123 ] . |
| 17 | In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution . |
| 18 | When I re-installed MS DOS 3.3 it altered the original CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to the ones I 've included with this letter . |