Example sentences of "[num] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century .
2 The Israeli government confirmed on April 22 that it had provided the equivalent of some US$1,800,000 to support the move into the hospice .
3 The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena .
4 Subsequently , however , the CNGSB announced on Oct. 22 that it intended to launch " a new and fierce terrorist campaign in the country " , but nevertheless qualified this by repeating that it would still support moves by " political parties , the working class , trade unions and everyone else " to find a political solution .
5 China reacted angrily to the US announcement on Sept. 2 that it had agreed to sell 150 F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan [ see this page ] .
6 The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully .
7 The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) said on Sept. 2 that it did not intend to issue " a clean bill of health for Iraq in the nuclear sphere " .
8 The novice chase received an entry of 12 and it looks as though a handful of runners will go to post .
9 The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since .
10 The smaller British fund had been licensed to operate by the DTI since 1985 and it had known about the business as far back as 1975 .
11 A second retirement followed in 1985 and it looks as though Lauda is going to stick to his word this time .
12 The broker 's global strategist , John Reynolds , citing the removal of political risk , accompanied by some healthy investment interest from Europe , sees the market reaching 2700 before it pauses for breath .
13 The evidence , including autopsies and eye-witness statements , pointed to a fire on board the DC-8 before it crashed , they said .
14 The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 .
15 During the affluent 80s when it seemed property prices soared higher each day , there was a lot of money to be made in real estate .
16 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 .
17 Shells were measured to the nearest 0.1 mm , using a vernier caliper , and the sample mean calculated for collections of 100 shells ( later reduced to 50 and then 30 as it became apparent that increasing the number of measurements did not improve the accuracy of the mean ) ( Fig. 23 ) .
18 A rare view of GN ‘ Large Atlantic No. 4420 as it speeds past Pilsley box heading north in 1939 .
19 For Nestor , it was a courageous near-miss , an almost-historic encore that placed Canada closer to the final eight than it had been since 1913 ( when Canada made the Challenge round final — with only nine countries competing ) .
20 A second independent miners ' congress , held in Donetsk ( Ukraine ) , ended with a declaration on Oct. 26 that it had been the founding congress of an independent miners ' trade union .
21 In a further blow to inter-Korean relations , the Agency for National Security Planning ( NSP ) , South Korea 's main internal security agency , claimed on Dec. 26 that it had thwarted a conspiracy linked with North Korea which aimed to overthrow the South Korean government .
22 A representative of an independent observers ' group comprising United States and Canadian citizens of Serbian extraction and led by US congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley told a press conference on Dec. 26 that it had found irregularities which would have rendered the elections illegal in the West .
23 He lived long enough to hear the Court announce on June 26 that it had rejected Australia 's Preliminary Objections concerning the Court 's jurisdiction in the case and the admissibility of Nauru 's claim .
24 The main party of opposition , the Democratic Party , also sought to widen its base prior to the election with the announcement on Nov. 26 that it had compacted an alliance with the National Congress , an umbrella organization of dissident groups .
25 The former communist party , now the Socialist Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SDRP ) confirmed on Nov. 7 that it had received an interest-free loan worth more than US$1,200,000 in January 1990 from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) .
26 The opposition pressure group Alliance for Democracy ( Aford ) founded in September [ see p. 39086 ] said on Nov. 7 that it had been banned by the government .
27 Sony Corp says it will reduce recruitment of new graduates next fiscal year to 500 from the 990 that it has offered jobs for the current year : it will be the second consecutive year-on-year decrease in recruitment after a peak of 1,750 in the 1992-93 fiscal year .
28 Marx 's reaction to this was as much an attempt to counter the claim being made on behalf of the Prussian bureaucracy in the 1840s that it offered an alternative to constitutionalism , as it was a theoretical objection to Hegel 's interpretation of the state ( Liebich 1982 ) .
29 In Maharashtra a group of Shiv Sena members of the legislative assembly , led by Chhagan Bhujpal , announced on Dec. 10 that it had formed the Shiv Sena ( B ) ; on Dec. 21 Bhujpal was appointed a Cabinet minister in the state government .
30 In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened .
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