Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He explained : ‘ It sleeps six and I let the other five beds to other pros . |
| 7 | In other words it sleeps six erm and the landlady 's willing to have one person sleeping on the floor officially . |
| 8 | oh it , it sleeps six , so we should be er , we should have plenty of room |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Plas y Brenin is a residential centre , based in what used to be an hotel — it sleeps 71 in two- or three-bedded rooms . |
| 11 | Not big at all , just comfortable , so that it sleeps two or three . |
| 12 | It sleeps ten with a permanent staff of three . |
| 13 | The other greenhouse gases are : Methane It contributes 18 per cent of the current greenhouse effect . |
| 14 | It goes fourteen fifteen |
| 15 | If the car has a constant speed of fifty miles per hour this means it goes fifty miles in every hour . |
| 16 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 17 | So by controlling the concentration of the reagents that will affect which way it goes and a lot of them are temperature sensitive , we heat it up it goes one way , cool it down it goes the other . |
| 18 | it goes one , two , three , four |
| 19 | Right , start that le no now we have we 're gon na play with this runway it goes three , two |
| 20 | The museum includes a library and archives documenting the reign of the Orléans-Bragança family ; it receives 300,000 visitors a year and plays a key role in the artistic and cultural life of Brazil . |
| 21 | It represents 125,000 officers in what is unfortunately only too truly the sharp end of policing . |
| 22 | It represents two inseparable qualities . |
| 23 | It represents one of his assignations . |
| 24 | This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed . |
| 25 | The interior of the church suffered from the dead hand of the restorer between 1897 and 1907 , but it represents one of the most monumental examples of the Romanesque in Bohemia . |
| 26 | If such an advance is realized , it represents one more step in a progression in which the antidiscipline , that is , the field treating the next level of organization below the one under scrutiny , is partly replaced by the synthetic enterprise to which it gave rigour and impetus ( Wilson , 1977 ) . |
| 27 | Together with BC2 it represents one of the major new general classification schemes of recent years . |
| 28 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 29 | It represents one of man 's great architectural feats and was technically a major step forward . |
| 30 | It represents 25 per cent of Mexico 's current reserve base . |