Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 22 China announced that it had not " provided any military assistance to the resistance forces in Cambodia " since the UN agreed its peace plan in October . |
| 2 | On Jan. 30 China said that it would take part in the disarmament process initiated by Bush and Yeltsin only when the USA and Russia had reduced their nuclear arsenal to " a level matching China " . |
| 3 | In a statement issued on July 2 Bush said that it would remain US policy neither to confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons , but that " where we 've said we do n't have those weapons on board , we mean it " . |
| 4 | On Nov. 10 Byelarus said that it had uncovered a smuggling ring engaged in carrying Russian uranium to Poland . |
| 5 | When in August 1986 GM announced that it was merging its North American heavy truck operations with Volvo , under Volvo 's control , the future of Bedford looked bleak . |
| 6 | On Feb. 21 India announced that it was sending medicines worth Rs10,000,000 while Algeria donated some 8 tonnes of food and medicines . |
| 7 | It owed so much that The Saturday Review on three occasions said that it should be ruled ‘ out of court ’ . |
| 8 | On April 17 Germany announced that it was increasing its aid for Kurdish refugees to DM440,000,000 ( $262,600,000 ) . |
| 9 | On May 5 Russia confirmed that it would honour a commitment to supply the Indian government with rocket engine technology worth $250 million , despite US threats to suspend technological collaboration with the two countries if the agreement was carried out . |
| 10 | However , on Feb. 18 FARC announced that it would respect the results of the March 11 municipal elections [ see pp. 37311-12 ] , and its offer of a ceasefire during the May presidential election period was reportedly accepted on Feb. 24 by a " commission of notables " ( comprising former Presidents , church and business representatives ) . |
| 11 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
| 12 | On April 11 Zambia said that it would be taking steps to develop tourism links with South Africa . |
| 13 | On Nov. 18 Libya announced that it had set up a judicial inquiry to investigate the allegations . |
| 14 | On Nov. 29 parliament decided that it would not debate the resignation , thus formally keeping the government in power , effectively in a caretaker capacity until the election of the new President . |
| 15 | On Jan. 25 Kuwait announced that it would also contribute $13,500 million to help defray US costs . |
| 16 | On Feb. 29 Sweden announced that it had rejected a Libyan request made earlier in February via UN officials for the two Libyans , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , to be tried in Sweden . |
| 17 | On Jan. 25 Belgium announced that it was likely to withdraw its 25,000 troops based in West Germany and underlined its opposition to any further increase in NATO 's defence budget . |
| 18 | On Nov. 16 Germany announced that it was disbanding its branch of a clandestine anti-communist network . |
| 19 | However , in August the West German federal cartel office blocked plans by Lufthansa to acquire control of passenger and freight services at Schönefeld airport and on Oct. 16 Lufthansa announced that it would drop the bid . |
| 20 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 21 | Although a trial judge might exclude evidence on the ground of fairness under s 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the fact that Parliament had incorporated the provisions of s 2(8) into the 1987 Act suggested that it had not felt that the power under the 1984 Act was sufficient to protect a person from being compelled to give evidence . |
| 22 | On March 16 Kazakhstan announced that it was establishing a national guard of unspecified numbers , subordinate to the President . |
| 23 | The other three parties to contest the 1989 elections were the SWAPO-Democrats ( SWAPO-D , founded by SWAPO dissidents in the 1970s and a participant from 1985 in the transitional government , Andreas Shipanga , l. ; on Aug. 13 SWAPO-D announced that it would disband and join the NPF ) ; Christian Democratic Action ( CDA , Rev. Peter Kalangula , l. ) ; and the Namibia National Democratic Party ( NNDP , Paul Helmuth , l . ) . |
| 24 | She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her . |
| 25 | One contributor replied that it is very difficult to create new jobs at all and especially difficult to attract jobs to Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 27 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 28 | One participant argued that it had potential , but that that potential was not being used to the full . |
| 29 | One officer said that it was so precise that his men could have leaned against it ; another , that his only casualties were those who followed the wall too closely and became queasy from the fumes of explosives . |
| 30 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |