Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying next to it is a Wand of Fear which extracts a special cost for use : if a spellcaster picks it up , it drains one point of T permanently from that spellcaster and is then attuned to him , and will function normally . |
| 2 | If the car has a constant speed of fifty miles per hour this means it goes fifty miles in every hour . |
| 3 | A motor boat has a speed of four miles per hour this means it goes four miles in every hour |
| 4 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 5 | It represents 125,000 officers in what is unfortunately only too truly the sharp end of policing . |
| 6 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 7 | It displays forty-eight coats of arms , in three lines of sixteen . |
| 8 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 9 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 10 | It averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ; in fact more than the Costa Brava , Mallorca and the French Riviera . |
| 11 | It sold 850 units in its first year . |
| 12 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 13 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 14 | It offers five destinations in yearly rotation . |
| 15 | Underwritten by the Economic Insurance Company , it offers two levels of cover — gold card or silver — and three hospital bands — ranging from most private hospitals in the UK , including London , at Band A , to NHS provincial teaching and general hospitals , and lower cost private hospitals , at Band C. |
| 16 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 17 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 18 | It made five goals in nine League games for the 29-year-old Scot and earned high praise from Lawrence . |
| 19 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 20 | It involved 14 groups of facial muscles and it releases chemicals to the brain that help combat depression . |
| 21 | Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today . |
| 22 | It reported 1992 revenues of $29m . |
| 23 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 24 | DIM P%-1 is a special case ; it reserves zero bytes of memory . |
| 25 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 26 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 27 | It stands 1100 feet above the Itria Valley and is a superb base for touring the region . |
| 28 | It stands six miles outside Oxford , in lovely and in those days remote country , with one bus a day . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | It covers six topics including the popular Sport & Entertainment , Science & Computing , Geography and others . |