Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.

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1 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
2 If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ?
3 Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite and it affects 50 per cent of us by the time we 're 70 .
4 The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital :
5 My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on .
6 A curious mixture of shade , energy and colour , it transcended most of the other material on the album because it contained one of the group 's main strengths — a great chorus .
7 The BPI would class this record as an album since it has seven songs on it , but as the BPI are the catamites of despair and the handmaidens of drear , it 's here as an EP and it 's very odd .
8 And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform .
9 Hunt told Hall 's Committee that it occupied seventeen different buildings of which seven were requisitioned during the war .
10 spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go
11 Here 's a lovely winter scene but it contains ten deliberate mistakes .
12 In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan .
13 All contributing organisations receive acknowledgement on their specific vehicle as it travels hundreds of miles between schools , demonstrating commitment to the need for technology based skills for girls as well as boys .
14 Cos I I got a watch and it says five past twelve , but it 's more than that !
15 My little book will have performed -a useful function if it persuades one or two of the best of its readers to take up this career .
16 This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed .
17 ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’
18 Mr it 's been suggested from my plaintiff that it took ten to fifteen minutes to enter and secure the flat by the firearms officers .
19 Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ .
20 If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week .
21 ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life .
22 This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago .
23 ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’
24 It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif .
25 There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago .
26 I think it is broken because it says also er Manchester to er I know it 's expensive on British Rail but it says one thousand three hundred and five pounds up there .
27 Its temperature falls each night until it reaches 5 degrees Celsius and the animal then becomes dormant .
28 I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild .
29 Is a Van Gogh painting not art because it fetches millions at Sotheby 's ?
30 A visit to York can also be an education as it boasts two of the best schools in the county : Queen Ethelburga 's College and Terrington Hall school are both well worth of consideration for the best in your children 's education .
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