Example sentences of "[num] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its share of wool exports rose too , though less strikingly , in 1374–75 and 1424–25 the figure was between 40 and 45 per cent , by 1474–75 it exceeded 50 per cent and in 1524–25 it was 66 per cent . |
| 2 | The sensitivity of the graphite industry to international demand may be illustrated by the sharp fluctuations in the value of graphite exports as a proportion of the value of rice imports : in 1890 this proportion was eighteen per cent , by 1895 it had fallen to seven per cent , but in the boom year of 1899 it soared to sixty per cent . |
| 3 | While the system of ‘ payment by results ’ was formally abolished in 1895 it has continued over the years to represent an enormous affront to the professional consciousness of teachers and a threat to the creation of an effective educational service . |
| 4 | When the Barnsley Beckett Hospital first opened in 1867 it depended upon the benevolence of local businessmen , colliery owners and public subscription for its income . |
| 5 | The move must mean its confident it can produce the 10s it needs . |
| 6 | The company was formed on Albert Hill in 1864 and by the time it closed in 1879 it had been responsible for 40 bridges in Denmark , 20 bridges in Sweden all built in 1874 , all the viaducts on the Whitby-RedcarMiddlesbrough line including the Staithes Viaduct , Llandudno pier , a bridge in Syria , another over the Tay in Scotland and a footbridge over the Tees at Barnard Castle . |
| 7 | The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 . |
| 8 | In the 1890s it embarked on a series of campaigns to promote closer relationships with trade unions . |
| 9 | In the 1890s it declined in one of its strongholds , Kurunagala district . |
| 10 | By 1933 it had recovered all the municipal seats it had lost in 1931 . |
| 11 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 12 | In the 1460s it lay behind his development of the Herbert hegemony in Wales and his consolidation of Neville power in the north . |
| 13 | In the 1460s it lay behind his development of the Herbert hegemony in Wales and his consolidation of Neville power in the north . |
| 14 | The DES agreed to fund a pilot project for the ten months from October 1989 to July 1990. it aims to identify and recruit twenty German and French teachers for a ten-week course in the coming summer term . |
| 15 | In Balston Ltd v Headline Fillers Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 330 it appears that an express confidential information clause which sought to protect secrets other than " business secrets " ( in the narrow sense that that phrase is used in Faccenda Chicken v Fowler ; see pp78-9 below ) was subjected by Scott J to the restraint of trade doctrine ( see also Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRL R 377 ) . |
| 16 | Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular . |
| 17 | yeah , makes you I ca n't see what 's good its doing twenty years afterwards , the people had time to think about it and use their memories for twenty years , nineteen seventy-two it happened and they 've just sort of done it . |
| 18 | In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient . |
| 19 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 20 | The airy and intricate line of Torro , weaving up the slabby wall to the left of Centurion , followed in 1962. it fell to John McLean , Willie Smith and Willie Gordon of the Creagh Dhu , with some aid . |
| 21 | It had become a sort of one-off adventurer and then after '79 it took on another role again . |
| 22 | The EPLF also announced that on Sept. 12 it had agreed to merge its forces with those of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement ( EPRDM ) . |
| 23 | In the event the opposition 's share of the seats increased from 37 to 53 , but Semangat " 46 won only eight seats , compared with the 12 it had held before the election . |
| 24 | As I was only 12 it scared me but now I know seeing a land mark just helps find the airstrip . |
| 25 | It is an open cluster , easily seen with × 7 ; with × 12 it seems to me to have a slightly elliptical appearance , with indications of resolution into stars . |
| 26 | On Aug. 24 the Sejm elected as Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Solidarity , and on Sept. 12 it endorsed his proposals for a new coalition Council of Ministers dominated by Solidarity but including members of the ZSL ( since renamed the Polish Peasants ' Party — PSL ) , SD and PUWP . |
| 27 | For Oct-1 it has clearly been shown that the contribution of POU S to DNA binding depends on the target sequence ( 26 ) . |
| 28 | Dating from around 1903 it had clearly been well played with as it was scratched and chipped and lacked a front wheel . |
| 29 | By 1902 its leaders were apparently on reasonably good terms with Wilson , but the breach was never completely healed and in 1903 it merged with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers taking 750 members with it , mostly , it seems , seamen on river craft . |
| 30 | Built in 1903 it has bronze and marble panels in an Art Nouveau style depicting the friars from the monastery that used to be on the site . |