Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan on Jan. 22 announced that it had approved the export of 27 tonnes of surgical anaesthetics . |
| 2 | In a rare statement on intelligence details , the CIA on Oct. 7 admitted that it had failed to provide accurate information to the Justice Department and the federal prosecutors . |
| 3 | Ratsiraka 's concessions followed seven weeks of strikes and demonstrations organized by the opposition Comité de forces vives , a coalition of 16 opposition parties , which on June 21 announced that it had formed a " provisional government " [ see p. 38277 ] . |
| 4 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 5 | ALL 141 people aboard a Boeing 737 died when it crashed into a mountain in China 's worst air crash yesterday . |
| 6 | " Actual " seems to mean " more than trivial " though Taylor v Granville [ 1978 ] Crim LR 482 said that it covered any harm , however slight . |
| 7 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 8 | Finland on May 6 announced that it had decided to purchase 64 US F/A-18 Hornet interceptor aircraft in preference to ex-Soviet , French or Swedish models to modernize its air force by the end of the century . |
| 9 | The West German government on Dec. 6 announced that it planned to reduce the size of its armed forces to 420,000 by 1995 , a reduction of 75,000 , or 15 per cent . |
| 10 | A Polisario communique of Dec. 3 claimed that it had carried out a total of 23 assaults on the Moroccan defence wall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 , although it gave no details of casualties . |
| 11 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 12 | The East German government on June 27 announced that it favoured Dec. 16 . |
| 13 | The Financial Times of Jan. 23 said that it had reflected " the life breathed into local politics " by the direct elections to some Legco seats in September 1991 [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 14 | Despite evident internal disagreements on the pace of economic reform , the government on May 14 announced that it had agreed on a programme of unified reforms to be implemented over the following months . |
| 15 | This view had clear implications for the state as actor , but the events of the 1960s showed that it had made a false assumption . |
| 16 | Experience in 1989 showed that it makes an excellent garden stake . |
| 17 | The judge , asked to decide as a preliminary point when the cause of action accrued for the purposes of section 9(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 held that it arose on completion of the works required by the notices . |