Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 it purchased the Grosvenor and Charing Cross hotels in London and entered into joint ventures with the large American hotel chain Ramada Inns to manage these hotels and others that it intends to buy . |
| 2 | When Piper bought out the old-established light aircraft firm of Stinson in 1949–50 it inherited the Twin-Stinson , a light twin of generous proportions which , in original form , had twin fins and a pair of 135 hp Lycoming engines . |
| 3 | In 1975 it launched the world 's first interest rate futures contract on Government National Mortgage Association ( GNMA ) mortgage backed certificates . |
| 4 | When the Redcliffe-Maud Commission ( on England ) reported in 1969 it recommended the abolition of the old structure and the establishment of a new pattern of local authorities . |
| 5 | On Oct. 17 the government had approved the sale of 101 state companies , and on Oct. 21 it endorsed the privatization of a further 24 state-owned industrial enterprises . |
| 6 | Once a Renaissance palace , after 1709 it became the property of Count Vrtba who commissioned Kaňka to rebuild it for him . |
| 7 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 8 | In 1981 it cut the link between earnings and unemployment benefits and uprated benefits in line with price rather than wage increases ( which have been higher for much of the decade ) . |
| 9 | In the early 1970s it became the practice to tell the press what had happened and whether any votes were taken . |
| 10 | After Rizzio 's murder in 1566 it became the residence of Mary , Queen of Scots . |
| 11 | On 16 November 1504 it discussed the question of peace treaties with the Crowns of Spain and the King of France , referring the matter to the ‘ good and ripe deliberation ’ of a small committee . |
| 12 | In 1949 it became the capital of the Federal Republic which grew out of the amalgamation of the French , British and American zones of occupation . |
| 13 | Sadly when Roger left in nineteen eighty-six it took the education of who provided Roger 's er salary until point successor . |
| 14 | The Conservative government chose in 1979 to raise pensions in line with prices rather than wages ; in 1986 it reduced the value of the state earnings-related pension scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 15 | In 1980 it implemented the proposals of the Taylor Committee for representation of parents on governing bodies of schools , and under the 1986 Act , which became operative in September 1988 , parent representation on governing bodies was extended . |
| 16 | Under the Emperor Charles VI it took the form it was to retain , with some reorganisation in the 1750s , until the 1848 revolution swept it away . |
| 17 | During the minority of Henry VI it dominated the government of the country . |
| 18 | At that time grant was minimal but by the 1930s it matched the rates as a source of current income ( Bennett 1982:44 ) . |
| 19 | Thus when the General Strike came in 1926 it marked the end of a period of working-class militancy and collective resistance to industrial decay and stagnation . |
| 20 | Thus in 1428 it suited the Hungarians to make a pact with the Turks , who were then fighting the Venetians in Greece . |
| 21 | In 1989 it won the Institute of Public Relations ' top prize , the Sword of Excellence . |
| 22 | In 1212 it received the charter of a free imperial city . |
| 23 | In 1787 it saw the première of Mozart 's Don Giovanni , with Mozart conducting , and in 1791 his La Clemenza di Tito , commissioned for the coronation of Leopold II as king of Bohemia . |
| 24 | In 1787 it led the country to the verge of civil war and provoked the intervention of the Prussian army in defence of William V and his wife , a Prussian princess . |
| 25 | In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold , and in 1988 homely spades , belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible , a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank . |
| 26 | ‘ Between 1987 and 1990 it seemed the sky was the limit . |