Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skin of an otter , in common with that of all mammals , contains a substance known as L-serine , and fish are so acutely sensitive to this chemical that they can sense it diluted one thousand million times . |
| 2 | Lying next to it is a Wand of Fear which extracts a special cost for use : if a spellcaster picks it up , it drains one point of T permanently from that spellcaster and is then attuned to him , and will function normally . |
| 3 | ‘ I can see me and him having it to go one of these days . ’ |
| 4 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 5 | By the summer of 1992 , when the last count was made , it owned 19,056 works . |
| 6 | It crosses two mountain ranges , 561 rivers , 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe . |
| 7 | It turns I into I , 2 into 4 , but since it turns I + 2= 3 into 9 , which we can all agree is not equal to I + 4 , it does not satisfy [ 5a ] . |
| 8 | It turns I into I , 2 into 4 , but since it turns I + 2= 3 into 9 , which we can all agree is not equal to I + 4 , it does not satisfy [ 5a ] . |
| 9 | Perhaps for this reason the topmost stone supposedly retains its own curious powers : it is said that when a cock crows nearby , it turns three times . |
| 10 | He explained : ‘ It sleeps six and I let the other five beds to other pros . |
| 11 | In other words it sleeps six erm and the landlady 's willing to have one person sleeping on the floor officially . |
| 12 | oh it , it sleeps six , so we should be er , we should have plenty of room |
| 13 | It sleeps eight comfortably , and rents for between £352 and £489 each for a week if eight share , including hire of one car and flights , or £449 to £699 each if four take it . |
| 14 | Plas y Brenin is a residential centre , based in what used to be an hotel — it sleeps 71 in two- or three-bedded rooms . |
| 15 | Not big at all , just comfortable , so that it sleeps two or three . |
| 16 | It sleeps ten with a permanent staff of three . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 19 | It got 23 seats . |
| 20 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |
| 21 | It revealed 10,000 chemical bombs , as well as 50 Scud missiles , including at least 30 with chemical warheads for long-range missiles . |
| 22 | However , the company 's spec calls for it to support six to eight P5s which it says should be capable of 250 transactions a second . |
| 23 | The other greenhouse gases are : Methane It contributes 18 per cent of the current greenhouse effect . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mean orocaecal transit time of the test meal containing lactulose , assessed by hydrogen breath analysis was similar in the two patients groups : in patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy it averaged 170 ( 19 ) minutes and in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy 138 ( 19 ) minutes . |
| 26 | Mean colonic transit time was 35.4 ( 4.7 ) hours in patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy , being much shorter ( p<0.02 ) than in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in whom it averaged 53.8 ( 5.5 ) hours . |
| 27 | Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) . |
| 28 | Thereafter , it averaged 4.85 per cent until 1979 when the seven years of the NATO 3 per cent annual increases in Defence spending began to take effect . |
| 29 | This raised the obvious question of why , if the money supply was expanding so rapidly ( it averaged 12 per cent p.a. 1981–87 ) , inflation was not running at 9 per cent or more . |
| 30 | ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . ) |