Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows ( what a mouthful ! ) is a very quick performer , it zoomed through 157 Megabytes of files on our Victor V486M 's 200 Mb hard disk in just 47 seconds ! |
| 2 | It involved over 37,000 feet of rock climbing at all times of the day and night , and 160 miles of ell running to transport a baton from one climbing team to another . |
| 3 | It lies within three degrees of Mirphak , and may be found by locating the little quadrilateral made up of 48 , Mu , b and Lambda ; the cluster lies just outside the quadrilateral , near b . |
| 4 | It stands in two acres of landscaped garden which was once a paddock for horses , and has a delightful lily pond and a revolving Victorian summer house . |
| 5 | It stands in three acres of garden , and overlooks the picturesque valley of Looe . |
| 6 | It stands in three acres of garden , woodland and paddock in the delightful village of Gissing . |
| 7 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 8 | ‘ It looks like one hell of a mess , Paul . ’ |
| 9 | It slices through 5 mm of mild steel with ease , and the beam can be angled to put ‘ rubbish ’ on the waste material and give a clean edge to the workpiece . |
| 10 | Specifically , a stricture in ulcerative colitis is more likely to be malignant ( 1 ) if it occurs after 20 years of duration of the disease , ( 2 ) if it is located proximal to the splenic flexure , and ( 3 ) if it presents with obstructive symptoms . |
| 11 | Of course it happens , it happens within ten minutes of the start of the sales interview . |
| 12 | It concentrates upon fifteen years of fertile activity until 1927 , by which date Ernst had created his major technical innovations and themes such as his forest and horde compositions . |
| 13 | This proviso was fundamental , and we can find it expressed in two letters of this period on the preference to be given to the claim of monastic life over every other demand — a theme of central importance in his thought . |
| 14 | Bonking … bonking … it sounds like two pieces of wood rubbing together . |
| 15 | Significantly , it opens with two photographs of the newly refurbished library in summer 1983 , complete with carpets and handsome modern furniture . |
| 16 | It opens onto two acres of gardens and woodland . |
| 17 | The statement was extremely thin , but it touched on one matter of importance — the fact that some employers spend money on training but others do not : they poach . |
| 18 | It consists of two lists of numbers with clearly labelled rows and columns . |
| 19 | A simple illustration may help to clarify the concept : it distinguishes between two kinds of " boos " , or attempts to frighten someone . |
| 20 | Seconds later , the 400-ton cargo plane exploded in a fireball as it smashed into two blocks of flats — killing all four aboard and several hundred on the ground . |
| 21 | She half catches it as it lands to one side of the jacuzzi . |
| 22 | It teetered on one edge of its base , and toppled on to the platform with surprisingly little noise but with enough force for Bernice to feel the floor move beneath her feet and a blast of displaced air brush against her face . |
| 23 | To me it looked like four sheets of Kleenex wiped in something unspeakable and stapled as far away from the fold as possible . |
| 24 | Now it looked like thirty tonnes of metal falling straight towards her . |
| 25 | It took about nine months of planning from start to finish on the one project we did . |
| 26 | It took about three months of him distressing me before I read it . |
| 27 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 28 | It dealt with 29 instances of existing IASs ' allowing a free choice of accounting treatment for like transactions and events . |
| 29 | It comes as a surprise , often , to realise that such a clause as you know is constrained by rules , varying in meaning as it moves from one part of the sentence to another , and being disallowed in certain contexts . |
| 30 | I trust , I trust that if there 's going to be any question of names coming forward to be a approved locally , not selected , I hope not selected , that they will be er they 'll come from the local level at which the police authority actually functions and not from other counties without that particular area and so My Lords , I would suggest er that er the best step to go for is er Lord MacIntosh 's Amendment Number Five and his er supplements and I would suggest My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty is resisted by your Lordships because it talks about one half of the members shall be members of a relevant council and I suggest above all My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty Seven is cast into outer darkness . |