Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 5 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 6 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 7 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 8 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 9 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 10 | In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution . |
| 11 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 12 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 13 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 14 | [ T ] he remarkable thing about the British press , as it entered the twentieth century , was its resemblance … to the press of mid-Victorian times , in some respects to that of pre-Victorian times . |
| 15 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 16 | With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside . |
| 17 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 18 | It came the next day . |
| 19 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 20 | She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there . |
| 21 | It joined the first aircraft on the test programme and soon both machines were breaking existing speed and altitude records with every flight . |
| 22 | It landed the Second Division minnows an away second round date at Leigh and Strudwick , the 42-year-old Australian charged with spreading the rugby league gospel in the capital , was pleased as punch . |
| 23 | Thus was opened the Grand Union , aptly named , for it forged the last link of the ambitious grand design to connect the East Midlands coalfields to London , a total distance of 168 miles . |
| 24 | It required the next generation of researchers and a simpler mollusc to come closer to finding god 's favourite . |
| 25 | Indeed , I have heard it called the first step on the path to true benevolence . ’ |
| 26 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
| 27 | It offered the seventh floor as a compromise , saying the film-maker was ‘ lucky to get that ’ . |
| 28 | It represented the first deployment of German armed forces outside German territory since the Second World War . |
| 29 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 30 | DARLINGTON Labour candidate Alan Milburn yesterday said his party would allow £8bn to be spent on council housing if it formed the next government . |