Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 2 | It involves a huge staff of unseen hands working together to give four guys a trouble-free two hours on stage every night . |
| 3 | In the classical period , especially under Rome , it became an accepted means of satisfying the blood lust of the plebs by the chase and slaughtering of animals in the arena . |
| 4 | It was in the context not of an isolated individual saying it to another isolated individual , but actually feeling that this identity had a social location , a political and moral location , because it involved a whole series of things which meant you were n't just a voice crying in the wilderness . |
| 5 | It holds a regular series of seminars at which reports are presented on research currently in progress . |
| 6 | Very quickly , by the early 1950s , the idea that a true ‘ Welfare State ’ had been created and that it offered an effective means of solving social inequalities was being criticised by the likes of Richard Titmuss . |
| 7 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 8 | Although now rather dated , it remains a useful means of assessing the land ownership situation in most of Scotland . |
| 9 | At present it occupies a hefty 30Mb of memory which makes it too big to co-exist with Windows . |
| 10 | The advantage of this arrangement is that it provides an efficient means of defence against predators . |
| 11 | Filling three galleries , it comprises a new series of small paintings on board which illustrate , in thirteen variations , a man praying in a landscape ; a set of four sculptures of a head cast in copper , brass , tin and lead ; a series of ten large gouaches painted on folding panels of Pondicherry paper ; and six groups of miniatures executed by Indian craftsmen under his supervision and illustrating subjects of his choice . |