Example sentences of "it [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as it crosses the four quarters . |
| 2 | The phrase caught on , and although Peterloo was only one of several similar incidents around that time , it became the one people remembered . |
| 3 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 4 | It joins the two pictures together to make one new picture . |
| 5 | Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations . |
| 6 | It condemned the 1812 constitution root and branch and suggesting a return to the ‘ traditional ’ constitution . |
| 7 | Even if you 've got twelve megabytes , you ca n't use them , let me explain why , erm , it uses the sixteen bytes per block , solely from conventional memory . |
| 8 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 9 | It says the two market leaders ADW , developed by KnowledgeWare Inc — but marketed by Ernst & Young in Europe — and Softlab GmbH 's Maestro , failed to show any growth at all during 1991 but were still able to maintain their top positions . |
| 10 | It seemed the two kings were trying to race each other to the Holy Land ; certainly they wanted as little of each other 's company as possible . |
| 11 | Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s . |
| 12 | As a general argument it straddles the two others , being more limited than either but broader than each . |
| 13 | It links the three floors of the shop and makes for a glamorous , if vertiginous , catwalk . |
| 14 | Mrs Winterton said the campaign would be the most complex fought by the sociey because it linked the two issues . |
| 15 | It exceeds the 10½ inches , but not the 12 inches , and I was rather hoping it may be a record size . |
| 16 | erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war . |
| 17 | One at least of these has for certain survived and it includes the 1916 drawing of the course reproduced in this publication . |
| 18 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 19 | It echoed the 1988 tragedy in which girl-friend Margaret Sowerby died when her chute failed . |
| 20 | The exercise shaved off $4bn from the 1990 target , but it raised the 1989 deficit by an equal amount . |
| 21 | It depicts the two daughters of the Rev. William Robinson , a Prebendary of the Cathedral , who died , full of promise , early in 1812 . |
| 22 | Ironically , it followed the one spell in which either side promised a goal with Notts County 's Cherry making the only serious saves from Furlong and Flynn . |
| 23 | At its simplest , it covered the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20 ; Deuteronomy 5 ) but associated with these were various collections of laws which have been classified as : |
| 24 | With Gerbrand Grobler playing so well at fullback and backing up Naas as a place kicker , it seems the fifteen spot is tied up . |
| 25 | down and it hit the two bars not the three bars , cos you get one , two and three bars do n't you ? that 's five , ten , fifteen pounds |
| 26 | ISS sought to add to this by what has become perhaps the most famous aspect of the report , its philosophy of achievement as expressed in what it called the four aspects of achievement , namely |
| 27 | It reformulates the 1918 statement that ‘ The artist , I believe , is more primitive , as well as more civilized , than his contemporaries . ’ |
| 28 | In fact it figures the three companies will be the only survivors of the coming silicon shoot-out . |
| 29 | When it saw the three figures it stopped , then , perhaps with memories of puppy-walkers , still with a broken leather couple round its neck , it approached the man whimpering softly , its tail waving . |
| 30 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |