Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ . |
| 2 | By 1891–95 it had average total deposits of £83 m. — an average individual deposit of £14.75 . |
| 3 | In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills . |
| 4 | Between 1851 and 1918 it bought 30 other banks . |
| 5 | In 1911 it required that one-third of all boarding-out committees should consist of women , for their assumed superior sensitivity to children 's needs , and that relieving officers should no longer supervise boarded-out children , thus removing such children from direct stigmatizing contact with the official administration of the Poor Law . |
| 6 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
| 7 | The Trust has already obtained such permission once , when in February 1986 it divested some 21 per cent of its holding in Wellcome . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living . |
| 10 | By 1982 it covered some 500 acres . |
| 11 | By the 1880s it had three main departments of this kind : Eastern , Western and American ( the last also covering China , Japan and Siam ) . |
| 12 | In about May 1977 he formed a company called Yash Pal Kansal & Co. , which flourished until by 1983 it operated some 20 chemist shops . |
| 13 | By 1983 it had half that number on roll . |