Example sentences of "it [verb] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view , the evidence of the face ( Boxes 3 and 4 ) is of greater significance , for it involves several functional complexes of the nose , orbits and palate , and this supports the relationship of Sivapithecus with the orang-utan . |
| 2 | The debate over the salmon is likely to prove an even bigger political issue than that of the future of the northern spotted owl ( see ED No. 40 ) because it involves several industries , whereas the owl involved only logging . |
| 3 | That and the enormous city walls — to judge by the surviving gates — made the town well-nigh impregnable and , indeed , it withstood several sieges . |
| 4 | It reopened several days later , however , and no further desalination plants came under direct threat during February . |
| 5 | It produced several serious expressions of interest . |
| 6 | In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security . |
| 7 | The River Weaver had been improved in 1733 , but the improvement of the Sankey Brook Navigation from the coalfield around St Helens in 1754 – 7 was especially significant in that it involved several new cuts . |
| 8 | The polarisation of views , inherent in the structure of a dialogue , may oversimplify complex issues at the heart of the debate , but we hope that it highlights several important conflicts which remain unresolved . |
| 9 | Intangible though bargaining power may seem at first , it has several important features . |
| 10 | It has several distinguishing features . |
| 11 | It has several circular tholos tombs , of which one , ‘ E ’ , dates to the Pre-Temple Period , 2500–2000 BC . |
| 12 | It has several forms — of which ‘ Geranium ’ is perhaps the best known — that are of smaller stature and more amenable to the average garden ( see pages 138 and 142 ) . |
| 13 | It has several benefits , such as being able to slot a ready-growing plant into a gap to replace a loss or , on a bigger scale , plant up an entire bed , in bloom , overnight ! |
| 14 | It has several graphic editors for handling rules generation , linguistic variables and system structure , with 8-bit resolution for all internal and external data . |
| 15 | Airconditioned throughout , it has several lounges , TV and piano bar . |
| 16 | Now it has several and one of them is themed to represent the genuine local product : ‘ the pub ’ for a hotel in London , ‘ the tapas bar ’ for one in Madrid . |
| 17 | It has several pairs of jointed legs with pincers on the end and behind these , plate-like gills , large and flat like the leaves of a book . |
| 18 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 19 | It has several features which make it a useful starting point for a tour across north Switzerland , a kind of advance taster of the delights to come . |
| 20 | It has several surprises . |
| 21 | It has several criss-cross patterns along the bar with a rest-type design and hole through the centre-piece . |
| 22 | It has several guises . |
| 23 | If , as he now seems to acknowledge , present board proposals are unacceptable , it has several other options prepared . |
| 24 | The second number of the 1993 volume , which has now gone to print , contains an extra selection of book reviews , and as well as the usual listing it has several other items that will be of interest to anyone who wants to keep up to date with what is being published . |
| 25 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 26 | His death was , on the contrary , so unexpected that it found several of the key political figures away from court . |
| 27 | His death was , on the contrary , so unexpected that it found several of the key political figures away from court . |
| 28 | Sourced in Fortran it contains several of the features listed above . |
| 29 | Its history goes back to Saxon times , and it contains several interesting historical buildings , and a peaceful marina , from which you can take a river cruise . |
| 30 | It contains several clusters within binocular range ; NGC 6397 , 6362 and 6352 are globular , while NGC 6167 and 6193 are loose . |