Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 2 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
| 3 | Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events . |
| 4 | Companies House , for example , which was established as an agency in October 1988 , had by April 1991 reduced from 25 days to 12 days the time it takes to process documents , against a target reduction to 18 days . |
| 5 | Having flowers in the house is lovely , but if you buy fresh flowers every week it is rather expensive : artificial flower arrangements might be a good alternative . |
| 6 | For the angler who only makes a few sorties a year it makes sense to buy hooks in smaller units like packets of ten . |
| 7 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
| 8 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 9 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |
| 10 | As soon as Maastricht comes into force , the commission and Belgium , which takes on the EC presidency next month , intend to work however many hours a week it takes to push through the works-council directive . |
| 11 | Now , yes I mean i i in , in terms of two thousand calories a day it , it s it seems to be six hundred and fifty , seven hundred calories , er seven hundred , right , now th th there are those who argue the hundred and fifty is starvation level . |
| 12 | It was n't its actual speed there will be sometimes it will be going very slowly , sometimes it will be going much more quickly but its average speed was sixty miles an hour because at sixty miles an hour it would cover a hundred and twenty miles , which was the distance , in two hours . |
| 13 | At two pounds and ten shillings an acre it would take only ten working days to pay for the plough , but he had promised Christian half his earnings . |
| 14 | The mechanical ‘ skin ’ on this well had increased to greater than 100 after its workover and completion , which indicated that although the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day it could be many times more productive . |
| 15 | At four shillings a copy it came within the purse of most and indeed was judged to be ‘ a manual to the whole kingdom ’ . |
| 16 | In contrast , the population of the inner ring is now nearly four times the size it was at the beginning of this century and the population of the outer ring is nearly twice the size . |
| 17 | Cause you have to put a lot of cream on your face to get the make up off and you do that especially if you 're doing two performances a day it 's an awful lot mess and much you 're putting on your face and you ca n't get it all off |
| 18 | One of the main problems at Clumber is erosion ( another is subsidence from coal mining ) , and with up to 1.5 million visitors a year it 's easy to see why . |
| 19 | If he was working for only two days every week it would be ten weeks before he began to make a profit . |
| 20 | The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again . |
| 21 | She always brushed Corrie 's beautiful hair when she came to the rectory , and though she began teaching both children the alphabet it was Corrie who received the most attention . |