Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As a course this demands a very full timetable , but it offers strongly-motivated students an opportunity to develop in parallel the intellectual and practical sides of their study of art . |
| 3 | It flies eight times a day from Gondar , carrying 1.8 tonnes of grain every trip . |
| 4 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 5 | Thus the market is now a money-loser : it needs 47,000 contracts a day to break even , but manages barely 30,000 . |
| 6 | Right , you 've got a garden hose running off your mains as well using , say , twe I do n't know how much it uses twenty gallons a minute , something like that . |
| 7 | It kills three people a day in the UK and affects a total of 6,000 . |
| 8 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 9 | It costs 95 pence a copy and will be available in supermarkets . |
| 10 | I had a what 's it today , from , something about the over fifties you see , so , cos they found it cost , it cost , it costs eight pounds a year to join you see , you know , you know , eh , pay on , so I 've joined it , I want to see what they 've got to say you know , you get , we get a lot of things you know |
| 11 | Mind you , if it costs three pounds a head to get in you 'll probably not want to go . |
| 12 | It costs 36 pounds a ton to take waste to a landfill site . |
| 13 | My tape recorder used to load practically every game I bought , but now I 'm lucky if it loads one game a week ! |
| 14 | Indeed , it takes hardened travellers a while to fully relax , but in the end all succumb to the magic . |
| 15 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 16 | It takes some people a time to realise that the inside facelets are never seen , to see that all the faces can turn and that there are several distinct types of pieces . |
| 17 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 18 | Is it to avoid confusion with other films of the same name or is it to give hapless viewers an idea of who they were dating , or supposed to be dating , at the time ? |
| 19 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 20 | At one time , estate agents were entering sufficient lots for it to hold 100 sales a year in the City or in the New Connaught Rooms . |
| 21 | It offered married men a tax allowance of some one-and-a-half times the single person 's allowance to which working wives were entitled . |
| 22 | West Midlands police inspector Vince Dean said : ‘ It took 20 officers an hour to bring the situation under control . |
| 23 | And what a garden it is ; overflowing with such an abundance of plants , it attracts 2,000 visitors a year under the National Gardens Scheme . |
| 24 | Raving resembled a huge , religious ritual , and like other such rituals it gave many people an insight into a transcendental state . |
| 25 | It gives many people a purpose to life and hope for the future . |
| 26 | Such ‘ integrated development ’ is vital for any long term protection of elephants , and other wildlife , because it gives local people a stake in conservation . |
| 27 | It gives interested parties a chance to buy in cheaply . |
| 28 | The interior has been designed by Mrs Liz Jameson ( Carrickfergus ) and it gives potential buyers an idea of how their new home could look . |
| 29 | It said special features a beach . |
| 30 | paper about that Robin Reliant and he 's done it all up and it does hundred mile an hour ! |