Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj -er] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1989 the government said it expected a further 361,000 sales over the next three years . |
| 2 | It 's a bit more expensive than the other machines I looked at but it has a bigger hard disk , local bus video and a lengthy warranty . |
| 3 | ( The privately rented sector has low values for a number of reasons : it contains a larger non-married proportion , and the form of stock is often considered to be less suitable for childrearing . |
| 4 | When the recipe called for a sprig of ‘ bruised thyme ’ it added a further twenty minutes while he and Kate deliberated as to whether bruised was the same as battered with a knife handle , or meant merely rubbed between the forefinger and thumb . |
| 5 | The piste groomers work around the clock to grind up the snow which , because it possesses a denser molecular structure than the real thing , compacts easily into ice . |
| 6 | It is said by some to be more tiring physically than a paid job , by others to be less tiring : some women say it takes a greater emotional toll , others that the drain is less than other work . |
| 7 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 8 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 9 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 10 | It took a further five days for America 's ‘ quick-reaction force ’ of marines and helicopters to turn up . |
| 11 | It took a further two decades before ‘ the elderly ’ were once more to experience the high profile that they had achieved in the debates of the 1940s and 1950s concerning their position and role in the economy . |
| 12 | It expects a further 29 tonnes on completion of the CEGB/SSEB Magnox programme plus an additional 34 tonnes of plutonium from the existing and committed AGR programme . |
| 13 | This index compares equal numbers of elements , and it gives a better postcranial/cranial comparison than the preceding index unless there has been preferential destruction of the jaws . |
| 14 | It had a lower recorded crime rate per 100,000 people than any of the 41 police areas in England and Wales . |
| 15 | It carries a longer maximum sentence of ten years . |