Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 8 | It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Its temperature falls each night until it reaches 5 degrees Celsius and the animal then becomes dormant . |
| 11 | Is a Van Gogh painting not art because it fetches millions at Sotheby 's ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was the sound of crunching metal as it hit one of the trees a glancing blow and came to a rocking halt . |
| 14 | 13 This shape is called a hexagon because it has six sides . |
| 15 | As far as I 'm concerned , a Tarot card is of no use unless it fits one of those hole-in-the-wall banks , preferably on somebody else 's account . |
| 16 | It is a relevant example because it involves one of the most searing of twentieth-century experiences , replete with both personal and broader political consequences , and it has recently been in the news . |
| 17 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 18 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 19 | The basket also provides a limited safe haven since it carries one or two cylinders of compressed air . |
| 20 | Of the two the Almond has the poorest water quality as it serves four sewage works directly viz Whitburn , Blackburn , East Calder and Newbridge and two works by tributaries , Fauldhouse via the Breich Water and Winchburgh via the Niddrie Burn . |
| 21 | ‘ From today the title and emblem of The Scotsman will be carried by this locomotive as it carries thousands of Scots , English and other nationalities on their leisure and business journeys between the great cities of Scotland and England , ’ he said . |
| 22 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 23 | But the victor was vanquished in turn once it lost two thirds of its tail . |
| 24 | The fraction of the file in overflow did not markedly affect performance until it reached 30 per cent of the total file ; the only exception was the ICL fourteen-record bucket file , which began to perform worse as soon as additions were made . |
| 25 | Belfast Telegraph Plan 82 could fit the bill because it covers 20 selections with a fine guarantee of at least seven 1-1 draws together if eight of your 20 selections end as 1-1 draws . |
| 26 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 27 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 28 | It is entirely a matter for the society whether it selects one of its own employees or instructs an independent firm . |
| 29 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 30 | We will say that a program is in x — IF/ALT form if it has one of the following forms . |