Example sentences of "it was [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was commented in one company that , since commercial environments have become more volatile in the 1980s , it is no longer sensible to undertake detailed quantitative analysis of market sizes or market shares . |
| 2 | My first car was a twin-carburettor Singer sports car , bright red with a silvery grey hood shaped from part of a wartime barrage balloon ; it was supported by two metal frames shaped like ice hockey goals . |
| 3 | It was dented on one side . |
| 4 | ‘ It was seen as one way mediocre trading performance . ’ |
| 5 | It has also scaled down payouts for redundancies , so as not to exceed the $1.5bn restructuring charge it was hit with two months ago . |
| 6 | And last night refugees , including casualties and children , were feared trapped in the blazing building after it was hit by three mortar bombs . |
| 7 | REFUGEES including children were trapped in a blazing Sarajevo hotel last night after it was hit by three mortar bombs . |
| 8 | This visits period lasted for half a term , although for some subject departments it was completed during four weeks . |
| 9 | Under Labour it was cut by five percent . |
| 10 | Under Labour it was cut by five percent . |
| 11 | Doctors pay is up thirty nine percent after inflation , under Labour it was cut by seventeen percent . |
| 12 | Doctors pay is up thirty nine percent after inflation , under Labour it was cut by seventeen percent . |
| 13 | The FN on March 30-April 1 , 1990 , held in Nice its eighth congress since the party 's creation in 1972 ; it was attended by 1,600 FN delegates . |
| 14 | According to French radio it was attended by 15,000 people , who heard speakers demand the formation of a provisional government of national unity and the restoration of rights to expelled Mauritanians . |
| 15 | It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher . |
| 16 | It was to last for nine hours , spreading from the Olympic Stadium into the streets , houses and offices of Charlottenburg , before the riot police , with their armoured vehicles and water cannons , brought the whole thing under control . |
| 17 | It was manned by thirty-five regulars under Captain C.C. Rawn summoned from Fort Missoula by Howard , plus 200 Montana volunteers and , to the Nez Perce 's disgust , twenty Flathead Indians . |
| 18 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 19 | It was opposed by 419 deputies . |
| 20 | It was flanked on one side by a great domed hall , supported on a quadrant of megalithic arches , each one at least twelve feet thick ; to its side the palace wall rose upwards with a colossal , almost Romanesque massiveness . |
| 21 | It was flanked by two towers and its entrance was reached only by a narrow stairway , but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a fortress . |
| 22 | In the 1975 session the government was defeated in 100 Lords divisions , and in the 1975 session it was defeated in 120 divisions . |
| 23 | When the agreement was debated within the House of Representatives on Oct. 5 , it was defeated by 362 votes to 179 . |
| 24 | ( It was defeated by 228 votes to 115 . ) |
| 25 | It was played on two radio stations , but there was no surrender . |
| 26 | It was disbanded on 2 April after it six-month life came to an end . |
| 27 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 28 | When it was formed in 1919 AIB was a branch of the old Air Ministry which controlled civil aviation as well as the Royal Air Force , and it remained in that department until immediately after the Second World War when the Ministry of Civil Aviation was formed . |
| 29 | It was adopted by 98 votes and was opposed by Israel and the USA . |
| 30 | It was adopted by 101 votes to none with eight abstentions . |