Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 2 | The Iraqi government had informed the UN that same evening that it accepted all 12 UN resolutions without conditions . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that it kills 8 000 men each year — four times as many people as die from cervical cancer — it is under-recognised and under-researched . |
| 4 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 5 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 6 | One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre . |
| 7 | Sharon formally submitted his resignation to the Cabinet on Feb. 18 , and it became effective two days later . |
| 8 | And it take twenty four hours to go round once . |
| 9 | Right yo , you can have one player and it costs forty four pound ninety nine . |
| 10 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 11 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |
| 12 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |