Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1985 it had overtaken the latter , reaching $25m. , and retained its position in 1986 with $30m. and in 1987 with $35m . |
| 2 | The NRF had originated from a combination of Swedish Red-and-Whites crossed to Ayrshires ( imported since the 1860s ) , and by 1960 it had absorbed the graded-up Red Trondheim ( a horned breed from Ayrshires crossed to local cattle between 1850 and 1891 ) and the Hedmark , another local type of the Swedish Red-and-White . |
| 3 | By the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 it had become the most professional in Europe . |
| 4 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 5 | By 1884 it had become the Art Workers ' Guild , the hub of the Arts and Crafts Movement , which aimed to bring back all the fine and craft arts and to follow the writings of Ruskin and William Morris . |
| 6 | All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement . |
| 7 | But by the 430s it had become the religion of most educated Roman town-dwellers . |
| 8 | When in 1795 it began holding a series of open-air demonstrations in London , surprising numbers seem to have attended — possibly more than 100,000 , given the tendency for such occasions to become " fairs " with women and children attending as well as men . |
| 9 | He said that when the Government realised it faced defeat on amendment 27 it had produced a second legal opinion . |
| 10 | Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s . |
| 11 | In 1982 it began to challenge the Haçienda as the alternative modern performance hall . |
| 12 | Formed nationally in 1900 it had played no role in pioneering local labour representation ; not until the early interwar years did it emerge with quite remarkable rapidity as the dominant political force in West Ham . |
| 13 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 14 | When it won the Pulitzer Prize in the US in April 1983 it started to gather a bit more grudging attention and the occasional baffled or withering review ( the London Sunday Times , for example , described it as ‘ drearily predictable ’ ) . |
| 15 | The funds came from various sources , including the Vereniging Rembrandt , the Rijksmuseumstichtung , and Prins Bernhardfonds , although the museum still must raise some DFl.2 million it borrowed to support the purchase . |
| 16 | On April 19 the EPRDF took the hydroelectric power station at Finchaa ( also in Welega province ) , and by April 24 it had taken the town of Ambo , 100 km west of Addis Ababa , although this area was retaken by government forces four days later . |
| 17 | At the legislative elections in 1990 it had advocated a strongly right-wing economic programme . |
| 18 | Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri said that Egypt had emerged as " the biggest loser " economically from the Gulf War : in the 10 months from August 1990 it had lost an estimated US$20,000 million in export earnings , workers ' remittances and earnings from tourism . |
| 19 | By the early 1980s it had become a matter of faith . |
| 20 | ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 . |
| 21 | However , on May 20 it agreed to allow a UN observer team , comprising 10 security guards , to enter Dahuk to ensure the safety of returning refugees . |
| 22 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |