Example sentences of "of [num] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain . |
| 2 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 3 | For an exciting moment at the beginning of 1918 it seemed possible that the pacifists might push Labour into collision with a Government still adamant that nothing short of overwhelming military victory could provide the basis for peace . |
| 4 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 5 | About the middle of 1942 it became evident that in order to make the night bombing raids over Germany more effective , some form of air marking would have to be developed to guide the aircraft more accurately to their targets . |
| 6 | In the summer and autumn of 1989 it seemed possible that this might no longer be true . |
| 7 | At the beginning of 1989 it remained uncertain whether this unenthusiastic recognition would survive the vicissitudes of negotiation . |
| 8 | By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks . |
| 9 | By the standards of 1961-or , perhaps , today — it was radical stuff , by the style of 1967 it seemed passé . |
| 10 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |
| 11 | In view of waning Axis fortunes in the summer of 1944 it seemed curious that when the Spanish Foreign Minister , Jordana , died in August he was replaced by Spain 's ambassador to occupied France , José Felix Lequerica Erquiza , a man of known Axis sympathies . |