Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb -s] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the river is nearing low ebb , vast stretches of sand are laid bare , but channels of grey brown water of varying widths and depths continue to rush out between the sand formations until it meets the next tide coming in , twelve hours later . |
| 2 | Labour has promised to restore Trades Union rights to workers at GCHQ in Cheltenham if it forms the next Government . |
| 3 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 4 | Baffling because it is all so new and strange , and exciting because it brings the first hint , the first distant suggestion that for women an independent economic identity is possible . |
| 5 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 6 | The hard copy formatter opens one or more volumes in the hard copy directory for each charge code specified in the configuration file , when it finds the first module which is associated with the given charge code and which has not been hard copied . |
| 7 | Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works . |
| 8 | A more appropriate image of Britain as it approaches the twenty-first century is of the economy governed by a not-so-hidden engine , working for greater inequality , both in rewards and life chances . |