Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 2 | It crosses two mountain ranges , 561 rivers , 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe . |
| 3 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 4 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 5 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 6 | It lies 3 degrees north of Gamma Sagittæ , and this is the best way to find it ; it is between Gamma Sagittæ and the dim 14 Vulpeculæ ( 5.7 ) . |
| 7 | As before , it is the Standard that we turn to and , as a measure of its interest , it devoted 10 column inches to the event in the issue before the opening , and a further 24 inches in the week afterwards ! |
| 8 | It has six granite columns with Corinthian capitals that are twelve point five metres in height . |
| 9 | It has one Chief Constable , two Deputy Chief Constables , two Senior Assistant Chief Constables , nine Assistant Chief Constables , 44 Chief Superintendents , 122 Superintendents , 161 Chief Inspectors , 483 Inspectors , 1385 sergeants and 8928 constables . |
| 10 | It has one woman character , and she is there qua mother . |
| 11 | Tilting further at Sun , HP says it has eight RISC Unix announcements to make before Sun wraps up its May 19th Viking launch ( we 're still waiting ) . |
| 12 | The Bosch Cordless Screwdriver ( electric ) is easy to use ; it has two screwdriver bits ( flat blade and cross top ) and is rechargeable , so can be wall-mounted in its charging unit . |
| 13 | Now it has two security guards . |
| 14 | It has two patch pockets and is darted at the front to give a neat silhouette . |
| 15 | Like other simple sugars , glucose is soluble in water ( which is why it is easily digestible ) because it has five hydroxyl groups ( see Appendix 1 ) which have a strong attraction for water molecules , and also because the glucose molecules are physically small enough to shuffle around fairly freely in a liquid , provided there are not too many of them . |
| 16 | It has four wheel drive as standard and a new turbocharged engine that is said to meet all current EC emission standards . |
| 17 | It has 10,000 sq ft for sales , and 32 staff , 24 of them full-time equivalents . |
| 18 | It has 50 production units worldwide , representation in more than 100 countries , an annual turnover of more than £780 million , and 17,000 employees . |
| 19 | It has 50 production units worldwide , representation in more than 100 countries , an annual turnover of more than £780 million , and 17,000 employees . |
| 20 | The NPP is building television in its own states , while it has three state radios and three daily newspapers . |
| 21 | It 's a triangle entails It has three angles Lesley is Arthur 's mother entails Lesley is female |
| 22 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 23 | DG says it has 15,000 AViiON servers in the field . |
| 24 | A. griegi differs from all three because it has 2 tentacle scales on each pore , by the shape of the oral papillae and the shape of the arm spines . |
| 25 | It holds 4 fl ozs , and enables you to drink conveniently on long runs . |
| 26 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 27 | Boatswain ’ , no doubt knew how to entertain an audience , just as the Shatford Players had done : ‘ … after it was entangled in the net , it received seventeen musket balls from the Greyhound Cutter ’ ( Gosh ! ) ; ‘ … it was dragged to the shore by seven horses … ’ |
| 28 | The latter is of particular significance , since it allows two way communication : input and output through an LCD screen , using a special pen . |
| 29 | Instead , it ranks 82 North West schools solely in order of size . |
| 30 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |