Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | The Abbey National gave itsmembers a bonus in the form of 100 free shares when it became a public limited company in July . |
2 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
3 | The fuselage broke into three major sections when it separated at the wing leading edge and wing trailing edge and the wreckage came to a stop 625 feet short of the runway pavement . |
4 | I have already said that I shall answer the three particular issues that it raised . |
5 | The government even paid ‘ compensation ’ to 43,000 collective farmers after it halted the system of annual agrarian bank ‘ loans ’ that were rarely repaid . |
6 | But if you ordered a ten thirty delivery and it arrived before noon , we would just give you the money difference the before twe , ten thirty and the before noon price , not the complete price . |
7 | Joshua , seven , landed the pike following a five minute fight after it had taken a dead dace to 15 lb line . |
8 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
9 | However , our test formula shows that , given an equal number of constituency and of list seats , a party with an average of only 31.2% of the constituency vote and the same percentage of the list vote ( y ) would not have even one excess seat unless it won more than 62.4% ( x ) of the constituency seats . |
10 | I laughed again and tapped the screen above a formation of red and green flapping things , just as one of them , peeling off to the side of the main pack , dived down firing at Jamie 's craft , missing it with its shots but clipping him with one green wing as it disappeared off the bottom of the screen , so that Jamie 's craft detonated in a blaze of flashing red and yellow . |
11 | It was only a pattern of meanings that textured one whole meaning and it danced in her night , circling about her , near enough to see , far enough for her to be safe . |
12 | It was the sound of more than a hundred working men and it rose above the sounds of the countryside that had become familiar to Seb 's ears . |
13 | Having outlined the snowballing process itself , the following sections will present the findings concerning the two principal tasks that it sought to accomplish-measuring the size of the hidden heroin sector and identifying variations between the profiles of known and unknown users . |
14 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |