Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 2 | Since the early sixteenth century it has been known that North American Indians and Inuits made maps . |
| 3 | In Prague 's second spring it has been superseded by the hustle and bustle of an emerging democracy — a society full of the good , the bad and the ugly . |
| 4 | Through a second marriage it passed to William Baker who on the death of his son in 1775 is registered as of this parish i.e. Upper Hailing . |
| 5 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 7 | And unfortunately second half it did n't come right but as I say we 've got a point out of it so we still you know , kept ourselves unbeaten for a game or two , so we 've just got to try keep it going and take it from there . |
| 8 | The second thing it does is highlight the fact that you 've actually got to put names in there , because this is next week . |
| 9 | In its second paragraph it accepted the overload thesis : |
| 10 | But as the joint venture , a marriage between Courtaulds ' acetate filament yarn operation and SNIA Fibre , enters its second year it does so with its market share — about 70 per cent in Europe — intact . |
| 11 | In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world . |
| 12 | However , during the eighteenth century it came into competition with the Longhorns and Shorthorns and by 1790 very few pure Gloucester herds remained . |
| 13 | The Te Deum was never the most popular text amongst composers of the pre-Baroque , but in the eighteenth century it enjoyed a new , though rather limited , vogue : from Purcell and Handel to Haydn , festive settings with large and colourful forces became the norm . |
| 14 | In the eighteenth century it seemed impossible to build a barn without creating a work of art . |
| 15 | From small beginnings in the eighteenth century it prospered in the depression after 1814 . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century it ceased to be needed as a fortress in the military sense , and in the latter part of that century the conversion of the inside into a palace was begun . |
| 17 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 18 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 19 | The " Secret Office " in which this skilled and highly confidential work was done dated back to 1653 and was an unpublicised aspect of the new efficiency which the Cromwellian period brought to much government activity ; by the end of the eighteenth century it had a staff of ten . |
| 20 | In the eighteenth century it had still been possible for Turks to feel that the empire , inherently superior to the infidel states which threatened it , had no need to stoop to such devices ; but such an attitude was now no longer practicable . |
| 21 | A hundred years earlier such an expedient might well have been used to impress envoys from some European state ; but by the later eighteenth century it showed merely that the Indians were exotic visitors from outside the European diplomatic system who might be influenced by such essentially childish devices . |
| 22 | Honours even might have satisfied the neutrals , but after last Monday 's Merseyside derby defeat , nothing less than victory would do for Souness and in the 84th minute it came . |
| 23 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 24 | By the mid-sixteenth century it had emerged as a distinct species of case involving four allegations . |
| 25 | At some time in the 19th century it became a school , then reverted to being a private house , but was in a sadly neglected state when bought by Major and Mrs Anthony Burke in 1953 . |
| 26 | By the 18th century the castle was beginning to fall into disrepair , and in the 19th century it changed hands several times . |
| 27 | The Teessiders seemed to sense that the Rokermen were starting to wilt and in the 62nd minute it looked as though Middlesbrough had finally found a way through . |
| 28 | Even in the first year , when fewer than a third of Leeds primary schools were involved in PNP , this requirement accounted for 760 teacher-days ; but from year to year , as more and more schools became involved and as roles proliferated , the investment of time increased until in the fourth year it stood at 2,035 teacher-days . |
| 29 | From then until the fifteenth century it belonged to de Burghs , de Clares , the Earls of Lincoln , de Lacys , Lestranges , and by the 1300s , when Sir John Talbot lived there , it was already quite an important property . |
| 30 | 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 . |