Example sentences of "of [noun] it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 2 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 3 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 4 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 5 | Thus as a formal method of scrutiny it has little value . |
| 6 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 7 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |