Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 2 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 3 | It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side . |
| 4 | It began with seven mortar rounds in quick succession , then shelling , often at the rate of one a minute for five hours with no let-up . |
| 5 | It catered for three Wehrmacht officers , the Danish research engineer and his chief assistant , and a young SS officer who was the Dane 's personal security escort . |
| 6 | It consists of two plastic wedges , with sticky surfaces to attach to the computer and rubber Feet . |
| 7 | It consists of four air springs , which replace the coil springs , new dampers and four height sensors at each corner . |
| 8 | It consists of 146 amino acids . |
| 9 | It consists of 12 threepart songs each linked with one of the 12 members of the Königsberg society of the same name . |
| 10 | It consists of 12 information panels ( heavily illustrated with contemporary photographs ) mounted on to large wooden boards measuring 8ft high and 4ft wide . |
| 11 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 12 | But , if it 's positively associated , it means as one score increases , the tendency is for the other score to increase . |
| 13 | If it 's negatively correlated , it means as one score increases , the tendency is for the other one to decrease , and if it 's virtually zero it means there 's no relationship between the two . |
| 14 | It focuses on thirteen figure sculptures of apostles , prophets and kings from the original west front of York Minster before the thirteenth-century rebuilding . |
| 15 | Perversely it costs more per unit quantity to pack in drums than it does in 5 litre quantities . |
| 16 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 17 | ‘ It runs on two IBM mainframes located in the UK and the US , ’ says Lester Tanner , ‘ and is utilised by agents , customers and thousands of AEI employees to access accounting and all kinds of other management information . ’ |
| 18 | We 're told it comes with four Rios RISC processors , 2Gb RAM , 6Gb or more disk , 2Gb per-second fibre optic channel input/output and will perform at 400 MFLOPS . |
| 19 | It comes with three support options : for application developers , end-users and system administrators . |