Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [num] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 3 | The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier . |
| 4 | Its great expectations were such that in 1975 it produced what it called a ‘ Reference Programme ’ of future development based on a dramatic growth in electricity demand . |
| 5 | Apart from its royal members , the number of Knights of the Garter is limited to twenty-four , and this restriction , coupled with the fact that since 1946 it has been once more in the personal gift of the monarch , makes its membership peculiarly exclusive . |
| 6 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 7 | The success of BEFIEX can be judged by the fact that by 1985 it covered 40 per cent of all manufactures , with a significant increase of the net trade generated ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : p. 116 ) . |
| 8 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 9 | All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement . |
| 10 | And for thousands it represented a real land of opportunity where the sun shone and the good life was there for the taking . |
| 11 | Thereafter it was used as a running-shed , serving the Promenade , Fleetwood and Marton routes in turn , until in 1945 it became a store for surplus trams . |
| 12 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 13 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
| 14 | By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent . |
| 15 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 16 | The strikes had taken on an important political dimension when workers formed a free trades union ‘ Solidarity ’ , and in 1981 it seemed that Soviet tanks would be needed to restore order . |
| 17 | In 1950 , the group established the Daily Graphic in the Gold Coast , and in 1952 it bought the Daily Mail of Sierra Leone . |
| 18 | Between 1971 and 1980 local authority and new town completions averaged 143,000 dwellings a year , but in 1981 the figure plummeted to 68,000 and in 1987 it reached an all-time low of 22,000 . |
| 19 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 20 | Since then , training has become an increasingly important part of CEPRA 's activities and in 1986 it joined forces with the Association of Native Language Communicators to set up a three-year communication diploma course for native language speakers . |
| 21 | This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church . |
| 22 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 23 | In 1991 profits fell from £314m to £151m and in 1992 it halved again to £77m . |
| 24 | The herdbook of the Pie Rouge de l'Est was established in 1930 and in 1945 it absorbed the Alsatian Simmental and the Gex ( another Swiss Simmental derivative , in northeast Ain ) . |
| 25 | The government 's budgetary deficit went up six- or seven-fold , its ability to back paper money with gold went down by more than 50 per cent , and in 1856 it spent 84 per cent of its income on debt repayments and the armed forces , but the private sector suffered less severely than the Treasury and people who engaged in industry or commerce positively benefited . |
| 26 | Though they remained lords of the manor , the Longs sold off the house and farm of 122 acres , and in 1834 it belonged to William Stancombe , whose tenant was coincidentally also called John Long . |
| 27 | That year he gave it under cover to a Milan publisher , Feltrinelli , and in 1958 it appeared in English . |
| 28 | Other financial help was needed , and in 1905 it came in the form of a deal with the Burmah Oil Company — to whom D'Arcy ultimately surrendered his interest in the whole venture ( in return for 170,000 Burmah shares and the reimbursement of all his expenses ) . |
| 29 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |
| 30 | 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 . |