Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both . |
| 32 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 33 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 34 | When a graphic is places it has eight handles positioned at the corners and centres of each side for re-sizing and general manipulation . |
| 35 | At one point it boasted 13 members who were admirals — not many clubs in the world can stage an annual match called Admirals v The Rest . |
| 36 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 37 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 38 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 39 | Every day it carries secretarial appointments . |
| 40 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 41 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 42 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 43 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 44 | Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution it boasts award-winning museums , heritage sites and first-class accommodation in beautiful Shropshire countryside . |
| 45 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 46 | In the early twentieth-century it had two churches , one shop , no omnibus or train service , no gas or water supply and no electricity ( the Rectory had a private generator ) . |
| 47 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |
| 48 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 49 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 50 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 51 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 52 | This is a sentiment I strongly agree with , but as an argument it has three problems . |
| 53 | In many ways it has considerable weaknesses . |
| 54 | For example it omits retail services |
| 55 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 56 | In addition to twenty-five cabins it had three bars , a dining room which measured fifteen by fifty feet , a lounge with a baby grand piano , a writing room , library and sick bay . |
| 57 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 58 | A medical supplies shop in the back streets of Shanghai is not the average travellers idea of an attraction , but for the tack traveller it contains hidden treasures . |
| 59 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 60 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |