Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the world conference on human rights due to take place in 1993 it noted the " persistent side-tracking of economic , social and cultural aspects of human rights by some members of the international community , while invoking civil and political aspects of human rights as a condition for extending economic and social development assistance " . |
| 2 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 3 | From the 1830s it became the single most important cause of the death of children , peaking at four deaths per thousand children per year aged under 15 ; at worst , 30,000 deaths a year in the 1860s . |
| 4 | In 1985 it purchased the Grosvenor and Charing Cross hotels in London and entered into joint ventures with the large American hotel chain Ramada Inns to manage these hotels and others that it intends to buy . |
| 5 | When Piper bought out the old-established light aircraft firm of Stinson in 1949–50 it inherited the Twin-Stinson , a light twin of generous proportions which , in original form , had twin fins and a pair of 135 hp Lycoming engines . |
| 6 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 7 | In 1991 it passed a packaging ordinance that imposes an obligation on companies to take back the packaging in which goods are transported and sold . |
| 8 | In March 1991 it won an important case when the strongly integrationist European Court of Justice condoned Brussels ' ability to rule on public service monopolies without the approval of EC member states , despite the fact that the Court 's principal legal adviser , the Advocate General , called for the Commission 's powers to be restricted under Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 9 | She opened her factory , Coade and Seely , in Lambeth in 1769 which at first , in keeping with the times , manufactured ornaments of classical inspiration , but by the 1840s it showed the pronounced influence of the early Victorian decorative style . |
| 10 | The opposition remained dissatisfied with the commission 's findings , and on April 10 it moved no confidence votes against Serbian Prime Minister Dragutin Zelenovic , Justice Minister Predrag Todorovic , and Industry Minister Dusan Matkovic in connection with the March demonstrations . |
| 11 | Between 1934 and 1937 it invalidated a string of measures initiated by President Roosevelt and passed by Congress to attempt to deal with the economic depression , while between 1954 and 1963 it made a series of decisions regarding the rights of blacks far in advance of anything that could obtain strong presidential and congressional support . |
| 12 | On Jan. 17 the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) welcomed " the start of military operations to liberate Kuwait " and on Jan. 26 it reaffirmed the " international legitimacy " of all UN resolutions [ see also p. 37927-28 ] . |
| 13 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
| 14 | Socially , the Club became active again and in June 1920 it ran a Ladies v . |
| 15 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 16 | By 1700 it had an outer polygonal timber palisade one sazhen high ( a sazhen is 2.13 metres ) and 1,500 sazhens in length , with five towers set into it . |
| 17 | From about 1955 to 1975 it had a particularly strong hold here in the form of ‘ conceptual analysis ’ or ‘ linguistic philosophy ’ , in which it was axiomatic that any ‘ empirical ’ question was not philosophical . |
| 18 | In 1975 it launched the world 's first interest rate futures contract on Government National Mortgage Association ( GNMA ) mortgage backed certificates . |
| 19 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 20 | But in September Nineteen Ninety it plunged a hundred and fifty feet into the river . |
| 21 | The aircraft was on charter to fly passengers from Norwich to Gothenburg , Sweden , and during the morning of 12 Dec 73 it made an uneventful positioning flight from Oslo , Norway , to Norwich where it landed at 1228 hours . |
| 22 | When the Redcliffe-Maud Commission ( on England ) reported in 1969 it recommended the abolition of the old structure and the establishment of a new pattern of local authorities . |
| 23 | On Oct. 17 the government had approved the sale of 101 state companies , and on Oct. 21 it endorsed the privatization of a further 24 state-owned industrial enterprises . |
| 24 | From that date until 1960 it became a dwelling in Pentrcwrt . |
| 25 | Once a Renaissance palace , after 1709 it became the property of Count Vrtba who commissioned Kaňka to rebuild it for him . |
| 26 | For the year to March 31 it made a pre-tax loss of £9.8m , compared with a massive £448.4m last time . |
| 27 | But from then until 1917 it became an issue of major importance . |
| 28 | During the years of World War II it became a place of refuge for German and Austrian academics of Jewish origin , among them Edgar Wind , Rudi Wittkower , and Ernst Gombrich . |
| 29 | This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church . |
| 30 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |