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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 ‘ No wonder it makes people sick , ’ he said .
4 As a beneficiary of this body it received £140,000 this financial year .
5 In occasionally active trading it closed 16p higher at 635p after touching 648p .
6 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 .
7 In the Highlands and Islands as a whole it received 24% of all HIDB assistance in 1971–79 .
8 it gives emphasis it attracts people 's attention
9 To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction .
10 In the float it raised £50m cash , so is in a strong position to make its move .
11 ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’
12 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 .
13 Of course it costs $700 to go .
14 Without a grave it costs £390/£400 ( presumably this means cremation ) .
15 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 .
16 ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people .
17 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 .
18 But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Earlier this year it spent $1bn ( £620m ) on ordering 300,000 personal computers from West Germany .
22 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 ) .
23 Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers .
24 Last year it gave £64,800 , one-third of the group 's local authority aid .
25 In one year it won 6% of the market !
26 Made in 18 carat gold it costs £380 .
27 The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens .
28 The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more .
29 ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . )
30 But in fact it enabled staff to come up with more appropriate answers to those problems , said Edwards .
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