Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acid rain affects trees partly because it dissolves essential nutrients out of the soil , such as magnesium and calcium — but again releases aluminium , which the trees take up to their detriment . |
| 2 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 3 | Unlike most ovens , it has three shelves instead of the usual two . |
| 4 | He can impose his choice because the president is elected not by the voters but by the National Assembly , where the Motherland party still has an ample majority : it holds 290 seats out of 450 Should a party which , judging by the latest test at the polls , is supported by only one voter in five choose the head of state ? |
| 5 | In the last election in 1984 , it scored 24 wins out of 28 . |
| 6 | It costs thirteen shillings instead of twelve-and-six for the standard brands , so I 'm not giving it to heathens who spoil its flavour with ice . ’ |
| 7 | It finished two months ahead of schedule , a bonus for both motorists and the contractors . |
| 8 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 9 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 10 | If you do n't want to use the server 's printers , then by telling it so , it leaves that code out of the load procedure as well — all very clever . |
| 11 | So powerful is that consideration , it is argued , that it lifts this case out of the ordinary Cyanamid considerations ( see American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 ) , in which the concern of the court is to preserve the subject matter and accept the risk that if the court should refuse the child may die before final decision , as a result of an intervening choking fit from which only ventilation could save him . |