Example sentences of "[num ord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period . |
| 2 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 3 | If they had scored a second it would have been no robbery . ’ |
| 4 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 5 | In the second it is the movement of objects . |
| 6 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
| 7 | In one case what counts is the ‘ objective positions ’ which ‘ white people ’ as such occupy within the ‘ racist power structure ’ ; in the second it is their socialization , or cultural traditions which racializes their relationships to blacks . |
| 8 | In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . |
| 9 | In the first case counselling has failed to protect others and in the second it has failed to protect the person counselled . |
| 10 | In the first term , colour is the theme , in the second it 's shape and third texture . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll second it . ’ |
| 12 | Bolinger himself expresses the difference between the two types of qualification as follows : " In the first , which is referent-modification , it [ the adjective ] is restricted by the CATEGORY of the noun ; in the second it may or may not be … |
| 13 | I 'd be delighted to second it Chairman . |
| 14 | In the first the computer threw up the names , in the second it allocated the numbers . |
| 15 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 16 | After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots . |
| 17 | on the second it 's the , it 's the first today is n't it ? |
| 18 | Mr Takeshita bulldozed this through parliament last December , and on April 1st it began to be applied to all goods and services . |
| 19 | Erm it 'll be it 'll be erm twelfth , thirteenth it 'll be the Tuesday , no I think it 's the fourteenth or the fifteenth . |
| 20 | Beware the Ides WHILE it might be bad enough this being Friday the thirteenth it is also the Ides of March on Sunday . |
| 21 | We also thought that on the feast of St Thomas More , June 24th it would be a good idea to celebrate the feast in the evening in the school hall when we can all gather to meet for the first or last time and say ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ Good-bye ’ as appropriate . |
| 22 | On May 24th it became clear that America has won the contest hands down . |
| 23 | On April 19th it was drug prevention in Kansas City . |
| 24 | On May 19th it decided abruptly that the allegations did not matter . |
| 25 | After April 9th it was often difficult to tell to whom the Mort Homme , smoking like a volcano from the concentrated fire of both artilleries , actually belonged . |
| 26 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 27 | You could say a fourth it does n't matter it 's the same thing . |
| 28 | Perfect fourth it 's erm |
| 29 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 30 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |