Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 2 | Needless to say , an appeal took place in the summer of 1991 and it came to light that although the Sharmas had been entitled to take Sophie and Robbie , they had never done so . |
| 3 | This was the summer of 1969 and it fired me into action . |
| 4 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 5 | The German and American had crossed swords on and off the track throughout 1990 and it seemed as if Bradl needed Kocinski 's ‘ presence ’ to inspire him for the final showdown . |
| 6 | The plan was essentially that first worked out in 1756 but it had now been elaborated and refined . |
| 7 | Copernicus 's astronomy was bold in 1543 because it clashed with the background assumption that the earth is stationery at the centre of the universe . |
| 8 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 9 | Qin had founded this weekly journal in 1980 and it had played a major role in the campaign for economic and political reform in China until being closed down in April 1989 following the outbreak of student demonstrations [ see p. 36587 ] . |
| 10 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 11 | The Communists had abandoned the Leftwing Movement in 1929 and it had immediately collapsed . |
| 12 | Ma Nuit Chez Maud ( 12 , Renoir and NFT ) was made by Eric Rohmer in 1969 and it came early in his studies of human relations . |
| 13 | He chose to sleep in Three because it had the best view of the Jubilee Line , unobstructed by trees , and as he came into the room and crossed to the window , he saw beyond the garden and the trees and the rhubarb plantation a silver train speeding southwards . |
| 14 | From Table 4.1 we can see that the ‘ total working and available for work ’ in Northern Tyne side was roughly the same in 1984 as it had been in 1972 , i.e. under 300 000 . |
| 15 | The Léon type was first formally distinguished from other Breton cattle in 1859 and it resisted the ubiquitous crossing to the Durham Shorthorn . |
| 16 | That was a very shrewd thing to say in 1940 but it did not happen for nearly five years . |
| 17 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 18 | Opposition to Home Rule was put on ice for the duration with the Bill , but opposition was as genuine in 1918 as it had been in 1914 . |
| 19 | From 1922 until it ceased publication in 1951 he edited Y Llenor , the highly successful Welsh quarterly journal , to which many of the leading Welsh writers of the period frequently contributed . |
| 20 | Their final work , a book on the geology of Scotland , though never completed in their lifetimes , was published in 1930 as it stood at the time of their deaths . |
| 21 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 22 | As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme . |
| 23 | Britain 's previously firm stand against tear-gas was significantly undermined by a government statement in 1970 that it did not consider CS and similar gases to be covered by the Protocol . |
| 24 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 25 | Despite the expectation that electricity demand grows hardly at all , the CEGB expects to burn more oil in 2000 than it did in 1981 . |
| 26 | Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm . |
| 27 | Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm . |
| 28 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |
| 29 | The tower was added in 1864 and it passed to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904 . |
| 30 | No agreed reform plan had been forthcoming in 1917–18 but it remained an agreed priority of the government to the end , and pledge after pledge was given . |