Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] it [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 2 | So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ . |
| 3 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 4 | For the first time it became clear that in manpower terms the USSR was deploying the largest R and D effort in the world . |
| 5 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 6 | During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power . |
| 7 | With regard to the second and third limbs it seems clear that the statute requires not only the exclusion ( or virtual exclusion ) of the donor from the enjoyment of the gifted property ( second limb ) but also the exclusion ( or , presumably , the virtual exclusion ) of the donor from any benefit to him by contract or otherwise ( Oakes v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1954 ] AC 57 ) . |
| 8 | Increasingly through last year it became apparent that what CSRG wanted was ‘ basically the same thing as BSDI : ’ an unencumbered commercial system . |
| 9 | For example , last year it became evident that terminal responses at peak times were becoming much slower . |