Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It represents positive results in 75 per cent of games , with 32 wins by the home side and 22 by the visitors . |
| 2 | It involves national teams of four/five historians and will result in a book to be published in all three countries in 1993 . |
| 3 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 4 | The proposed shoe factory , for example , would make a return on capital of around 15% if it sold running shoes for 1,000 roubles a pair . |
| 5 | It made pre-tax profits of 95.3 billion roubles in the year ending on January 1st 1993 ( $141m , at the average exchange rate for 1992 ) . |
| 6 | It made five goals in nine League games for the 29-year-old Scot and earned high praise from Lawrence . |
| 7 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 8 | It has four rows of four columns and piers , each with different capitals , representing biblical scenes with human figures , monsters , demons and a type of Corinthian design . |
| 9 | It has 132 rooms with seven staircases , 412 doors , 147 windows , 28 fireplaces and 32 bathrooms . |
| 10 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 11 | It has 224 columns in 16 rows of 14 to support the brick vaulting ( XVIII ) . |
| 12 | you know those orange drinks , which it says real oranges in nine times out of ten , it is n't there 's always some additives and what have you |
| 13 | It measures 42 inches by 42 inches in height and width . |
| 14 | Launched in 1957 , it claimed 25,000 supporters by 1958 and by 1960 pacifist members had sailed into the Pacific testing grounds , boarded nuclear submarines or missile bases or simply refused to take shelter during bomb drills . |
| 15 | The UK government will issue health warnings about low-level ozone pollution only when it reaches 200 parts per billion — more than twice the safety threshold of 75 parts per billion set by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |
| 16 | Hardback , 244 pages , illustrated it includes copious extracts from 627 's ORB while at Oakington and Woodhall Spa , a list of aircrew personnel , aircraft operated and aircraft incidents . |
| 17 | It showed ten minutes past four . |
| 18 | It measured six inches by four and was three quarters of an inch thick , with thread-bound pages . |
| 19 | The advantage of this concept of function is that it avoids absolute distinctions between one kind of text and another . |
| 20 | It heard blithe announcements from two military eminences which were hardly reassuring . |
| 21 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 22 | It covered 100 yards in three seconds which means a speed of nearly 70 miles an hour ! |
| 23 | It included dropped shots at two of his last three holes . |
| 24 | In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne . |
| 25 | IBM says the Workstation One family obviates the need for this because it combines many features in one product with a common graphical interface . |
| 26 | Risk It Miss justified odds of 4–5 winning its heat from Sullane Castle and has drawn its favourite trap one , while Milligan 's wide-running Bring Plenty runs from trap six . |
| 27 | Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it had serious repercussions on one of the housing stresses of London . |
| 29 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 enacts this Provision though it substitutes 208 hours for twenty-six days and exempts employees who are elected to the chair of councils ( Clause 10 ) . |
| 30 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |