Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some exceptions to the rigours of this rule : an oral agreement was allowed to be proved where it formed one comprehensive contract with the written lease ( Walker Property Investments ( Brighton ) Ltd v Walker ( 1947 ) 177 LT 204 ) ; and a tenant in breach of the user covenant in his written lease was allowed to prove an antecedent oral collateral contract permitting the breach complained of ( City and Westminster Properties ( 1934 ) Ltd v Mudd [ 1959 ] Ch 129 ) . |
| 2 | The new council retained Pietro Borghini ( PSI ) as mayor and , although it contained six independent technocrats , the same five parties , headed by the PSI and the DC , continued as the governing coalition . |
| 3 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 4 | And when a police officer went to examine the Nissan Cherry he discovered that it had two bald tyres . |
| 5 | Sealink released figures for their performance from June 27 to August 28 , claiming that it carried 38,493 more passengers and 10,818 more cars between Larne and Stranraer than last year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 10 | We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents . |
| 11 | NCR notes that it added 3270 Terminal Support a few weeks back . |
| 12 | One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre . |
| 13 | If we feel sorry for the dying cat that can not understand what is happening to it , we should remember that it has one enormous advantage over us : it has no fear of death , which is something we humans must all carry with us throughout our long lives . |
| 14 | The regime continues to feel that it has two chief enemies : Iraq locally and the United States , the Great Satan , farther off . |
| 15 | The value charge of such a word reflects the mores of the language users , and they may be unaware that it has two distinguishable components to its meaning . |
| 16 | The fluorite structure ( see figure 3.27 ) differs from those described above in that its stoichiometry is AB2 and also in that it has two different coordination numbers — and 4 . |
| 17 | The lengthy minutes of the meeting [ KP 115 ] show that it covered four main subjects . |
| 18 | The Council tax is based on the capital value of each property , on the assumption that it contains two adult members . |
| 19 | Hunt told Hall 's Committee that it occupied seventeen different buildings of which seven were requisitioned during the war . |
| 20 | And it take twenty four hours to go round once . |
| 21 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 22 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 23 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
| 24 | The document argued that a school would be more effective in achieving its aims if they were written down and it suggested six possible aims expressed at a high level of generality , for example : to develop lively enquiring minds … ; to acquire the knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world . |
| 25 | Right yo , you can have one player and it costs forty four pound ninety nine . |
| 26 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week announced that it has expanded the number of software and communications products offered under its Distributed Computing Model to the DPX/20 Unix and DPS GCOS systems , and it introduced two new models of the DPX/20 , based on IBM 's Power RISC architecture . |
| 27 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 28 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 29 | When it 's a mizza , of course especially if it creates 25 new jobs . |
| 30 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |