Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 2 | It announced a 27 p.c. fall in profits to £28.4m for 1991 but the first quarter of 1992 showed a ‘ significant recovery ’ . |
| 3 | Shares in Grampian , which recently failed in its bid for chemist group Macarthy , fell 9 to 163p yesterday after it announced a 15 p.c. drop in pre-tax profit to £11.2m in a tough year for its retail and sports goods activities . |
| 4 | In 1923 she recorded ‘ Downhearted Blues ’ , one of the 14 releases Bessie had on Columbia that year , and it became a million seller , helping to save the company from certain bankruptcy . |
| 5 | The phrase caught on , and although Peterloo was only one of several similar incidents around that time , it became the one people remembered . |
| 6 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 7 | Dun says it weighed a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't need SQL programming skills . |
| 8 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 9 | Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations . |
| 10 | It condemned the 1812 constitution root and branch and suggesting a return to the ‘ traditional ’ constitution . |
| 11 | It spawned a trillion imitators and forced Primal Scream to become space-age voodoo rave psychedelecists . |
| 12 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 13 | It seemed the two kings were trying to race each other to the Holy Land ; certainly they wanted as little of each other 's company as possible . |
| 14 | And it did not happen here , not at St-Jean , it happened a hundred miles away and more , across the border , at Alassio , in another country , in my country , one of my countries . |
| 15 | Mrs Winterton said the campaign would be the most complex fought by the sociey because it linked the two issues . |
| 16 | It showed a 50 point drop . |
| 17 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 18 | It echoed the 1988 tragedy in which girl-friend Margaret Sowerby died when her chute failed . |
| 19 | The exercise shaved off $4bn from the 1990 target , but it raised the 1989 deficit by an equal amount . |
| 20 | Ironically , it followed the one spell in which either side promised a goal with Notts County 's Cherry making the only serious saves from Furlong and Flynn . |
| 21 | At its simplest , it covered the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20 ; Deuteronomy 5 ) but associated with these were various collections of laws which have been classified as : |
| 22 | Having said that , as Mr 's pointed out , in fact the new manual if anything er emphasizes the benefits more than it did previously because as you said , previously it required a fifty percent reduction in traffic to register a one decibel change in noise levels which was s perceived to be significant . |
| 23 | down and it hit the two bars not the three bars , cos you get one , two and three bars do n't you ? that 's five , ten , fifteen pounds |
| 24 | ISS sought to add to this by what has become perhaps the most famous aspect of the report , its philosophy of achievement as expressed in what it called the four aspects of achievement , namely |
| 25 | When it saw the three figures it stopped , then , perhaps with memories of puppy-walkers , still with a broken leather couple round its neck , it approached the man whimpering softly , its tail waving . |
| 26 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 27 | The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned . |
| 28 | It took a hundred firefighters more than four hours to bring it under control . |
| 29 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 30 | Today the family has new hope , but it took an eight week jail term and the care of the prison 's medical officer to have Andrew admitted for treatment |