Example sentences of "it [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US got the ‘ best ’ of the Cubans and Iranians , as it got many from 1848 ( Pinkerton , the organiser of anti-union factory guards was originally a British Chartist ) , and is now taking the cream of former communist states . |
| 2 | Although it boasts little in the way of modern conveniences , it offers many services : mountain hut , camping area and thunderbox , basic shop — in truth very basic and equally expensive — bakery , fish , fish and more fish , church and pure honesty . |
| 3 | Ted lived with his mother , an arrangement which , while it lacked many of the usual tragi-comedy trappings of such situations , did present certain problems . |
| 4 | It fits many of the statements of attainment in Science in the National Curriculum : |
| 5 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 6 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 7 | It retained many of the traditional features of stations , including a clock-tower more than 100 ft. high , and large circulation areas adorned with tiles with Maori motifs , and frescos depicting New Zealand scenes . |
| 8 | When it is established it develops many runners which bear green shoots at intervals . |
| 9 | Nelson 's detailed account is well worth close scrutiny for it illustrates many aspects of socio-ecology most cogently . |
| 10 | It illustrates many points in this chapter , but above all the point about blaming forest users . |
| 11 | One feature alone redeems the book , namely that it illustrates many works which have rarely been reproduced since the original publication of the albums by Redon , though we could also have hoped that the quality of the reproductions were a little better . |
| 12 | It has many one-pitch routes , few of which are more than 6a . |
| 13 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 14 | It has large and influential cereals and sugar barons in the north , but it has many small livestock farmers as well . |
| 15 | Coir , the fibrous husk of the coconut , is being hailed as the new alternative to peat , it has many similar properties , ideal for potting or seed sowing . |
| 16 | It has many causes : damage caused by internal parasites , mouldy food or hay , stones and other foreign objects that have been eaten by the horse , or most importantly , stress and anxiety . |
| 17 | Although you do not appear to feel the ardour which might be desirable so early in a marriage , you will find it has many rewards , I am sure . |
| 18 | It has many advantages over the traditional ‘ Winchesters ’ with a lower centre of gravity and a carefully controlled flow of glass within the mould so that there are no weak spots or pressure-vulnerable areas . |
| 19 | The transition from water to land required not only the perfection of a walking limb , but modifications to the hearing system , palate , eyes and so on , and Ichthyostega had already established most of these terrestrial modifications , so it is in no sense an ‘ ancestor ’ , although it has many ancestral features . |
| 20 | It has many of the characteristics of a great ecclesiastical building ; it has vast arches , void spaces , coloured lights , and above all , it has recurrence of ritual . |
| 21 | Designed by W. Trees , it has many Gothic features , including lancet windows and a ticket office like a manorial great hall , with beamed roof and elaborate chimneypiece . |
| 22 | It has many similarities with the old Swedish Mountain cattle ( and indeed two bulls of that type were imported in 1949 ) and it also has an unusually high incidence of a particular chromosomal translocation which might have a very minor effect on fertility . |
| 23 | Play is many things to the child and it has many meanings . |
| 24 | Love is the largest region of the transcendent world and it has many forms — there can be love of God , love of nature , and the love of a human being and love of our fellowmen . |
| 25 | It has many shops , banks and services . |
| 26 | But Domesday was concerned with tenants and householders , not with heads ; it has many omissions ; and its arithmetic is often baffling . |
| 27 | The valley , as it descends towards Ribeira Brava , is probably the most beautiful in Madeira , and it has many picnic tables and pull-offs for the car . |
| 28 | It has many well developed facilities for holidaymakers with wonderful bathing and watersports , tremendous sightseeing and tasty food and drink at rock bottom prices . |
| 29 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 30 | It has many features in common with the Knossos Labyrinth . |