Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 2 | At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 . |
| 3 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 4 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 5 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
| 6 | Enough of it survived to show two canthari , one of which ( pI . |
| 7 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 8 | It had to happen one day , but not yet . |
| 9 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 10 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 11 | Because superiority was so uncertain for the individual , it had to have one form that was permanent and secure . |
| 12 | Built at 9am ( unless if ‘ it be Full Sea , the Service shall cease ’ ) it had to withstand three tides . |
| 13 | It 's owned and run by Oxfordshire County Council , which is building another much bigger landfill alongside it intended to take twelve year 's worth of south Oxfordshire 's waste . |
| 14 | Similarly , in response to the Feb. 19 announcement by the major car manufacturer Autolatina ( the holding company for Ford and Volkswagen in Brazil ) that it intended to shed 8,000 jobs , workers at two car plants in Sao Bernardo near Sao Paulo stopped production and blocked a highway , and leaders of the Sao Paulo Metal Worker 's Union stated that they would not accept the dismissals . |
| 15 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 16 | The CCC said that in order to make the transition from the current annual payment schedule , which is ordinarily in March , it intended to make three distributions during calendar year 1993 . |