Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 2 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 3 | It 's called Two Gentlemen of Veronna ? |
| 4 | The firm claims it 's sold 390 licences since March and has another 250 copies in test sites . |
| 5 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 6 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 7 | It 's taken 3 years of planning , £16,000 in donations and bucketfuls of elbow grease to install the collection in the 12th century church and all for a parish of fewer than 700 people . |
| 8 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 9 | It 's offering ten pounds to anyone who 's prepared to stand in line with a suspect , and is hoping that people of all ages , colours , shapes and sizes will come forward . |
| 10 | It is seeking four types of technologies : scalable process management , load balancing , scalable networking and scalable file systems . |
| 11 | ‘ Anthem for Doomed Youth ’ has a completely different angle of viewing as it is comparing two types of death , slaughtering and a ceremonial death . |
| 12 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 13 | The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children |
| 14 | The initial trials quickly revealed how difficult it is to develop one set of forms which can be used to assess the progress of all children . |
| 15 | It is paying 8.9 p.c. on £2,000 for one year . |
| 16 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 17 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 18 | International outrage at deteriorating conditions in Turkish refugee camps in the mountainous border region around Isikveren led the government to announce on April 14 that it was moving 200,000 refugees to prepared sites near Silopi , about 50 km inside Turkey . |
| 19 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 20 | It was dated three days before Riddle 's disappearance . |
| 21 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 22 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
| 23 | Sierra Leone announced that it was sending 2,000 men to the border area after rebels from Liberia killed 25 people during raids . |
| 24 | Later known as Pentecost , it was celebrated 50 days after the beginning of Passover . |
| 25 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 26 | He admired the stonework of the school , the windows and even pointed out how quaint it was having two handles on each side of the door . |
| 27 | An object with what appeared to be a gun barrel pointing from it was found 30 yards from where Mr Peter Jowett 's body lay . |
| 28 | In June , BAe Space Systems , a British Aerospace subsidiary that makes communication satellites , announced it was cutting 640 jobs as part of a rationalisation scheme . |
| 29 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |