Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 In one case in the community homes it says staff absence , and I 'm not clear what there is for training purposes , but I would hope that we are checking , or was this simply before Christmas , or what ?
2 When he plays C on his A instrument it sounds A. Hence the part for a B ♭ clarinet is written a tone higher than the key of the piece , and that for an A clarinet a minor 3rd higher .
3 It overlooks the fact that people with impairments have different needs from people without impairments , and the uniformity it introduces means that the specific needs and characteristics of individuals often go unrecognised .
4 ‘ No wonder it makes people sick , ’ he said .
5 As a beneficiary of this body it received £140,000 this financial year .
6 In occasionally active trading it closed 16p higher at 635p after touching 648p .
7 In the fourth quarter last year Informix had a 25% pre-tax profit and in the recently completed first quarter it posted 23% , White said .
8 In the Highlands and Islands as a whole it received 24% of all HIDB assistance in 1971–79 .
9 it gives emphasis it attracts people 's attention
10 This equilibrium strategy is not a consequence of any form of restriction on A 's actions , the optimization problem ( 6 ) is completely general in the scope of actions it allows A. The form of the equilibrium is a consequence of the linearity of B t 's signal extraction problem and the restricted quadratic form of A's preferences .
11 To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction .
12 In the float it raised £50m cash , so is in a strong position to make its move .
13 Available on Sun Sparcstations it costs $18,500 .
14 Available on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations it costs $5,500 .
15 In Britain it spawned works as varied as Peter Maxwell Davies ' Eight Songs For A Mad King ( 1968 ) and Harrison Birtwhistle 's Punch And Judy ( 1967 ) , even Britten-s church parables .
16 ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’
17 He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up .
18 Of course it costs $700 to go .
19 Without a grave it costs £390/£400 ( presumably this means cremation ) .
20 Its initial success came chiefly in the traditional Dissenting districts , but by the beginning of Victoria 's reign it attracted people of all social backgrounds in almost every type of community except the estate village .
21 Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations :
22 Published by Collins it costs £11.95 and is available from bookshops and stationers around the country .
23 ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people .
24 Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money .
25 But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress .
26 If SunSoft does the port it costs $150,000 , but that 's apparently $150,000 every time it needs to be done even though SunSoft has to change only 5% of the code , an activity that takes only seven to ten days .
27 By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million .
28 Earlier this year it spent $1bn ( £620m ) on ordering 300,000 personal computers from West Germany .
29 A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) .
30 Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers .
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