Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |
| 2 | Unlike the ancient hill paintings the abstract pan does n't have any great meaning … the artists just hope it turns a few heads . |
| 3 | It passed a few minutes later . |
| 4 | But the Evangelical Alliance UK , which says it represents a million churchgoers , immediately responded by saying the Church must not adopt society 's view of marriage as disposable and pre-marital sex as inevitable . |
| 5 | Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ . |
| 6 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 7 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 8 | The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual . |
| 9 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 10 | NORTH Korea , suspected of trying to develop nuclear arms , declared yesterday that any attempt to force it to accept a United Nations inspection could lead to war . |
| 11 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 12 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 13 | I feel it needs a few points tidied up such as data entry checking , i.e. only allowing a maximum of 8 characters to be typed into a date field and being able to press Esc to return to menu at any time during data entry . |
| 14 | ‘ It needs a few gallons of hot soapy water too ! |
| 15 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 16 | It has a former Friends of the Earth director as a policy adviser and it donates a penny to charity for every returned plastic carrier bag — two ways in which J. Sainsbury is setting out its stall as a leader on environmental issues . |
| 17 | It has a new 16″ 1,152 x 900 monitor from Sony Corp , 8Mb memory and a 207Mb disk and Solaris 1.0 is bundled . |
| 18 | It has a young professionals group and the bootstrappers club for teenagers . |
| 19 | It has a preliminary EOS Europe office and EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months . |
| 20 | Providing it does not clog filter intakes , it has a few things going for it : it can act as a curb on nitrate and phosphate levels , provide shelter for any overlooked fry and even supplement the fish 's diet in holiday periods . |
| 21 | While Vadinamia will never be a rival to any of the known holiday-resort worlds , it has a few things to offer by way of amusement . |
| 22 | It has a few houses and shops , even a post office . |
| 23 | Like York , the old walled city centre attracts many tourists , and it has a large cattle market and a cathedral . |
| 24 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 25 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 26 | It spawned a trillion imitators and forced Primal Scream to become space-age voodoo rave psychedelecists . |
| 27 | It attracted a large Customs and Excise office and the Access credit card headquarters , but tourists were not encouraged . |
| 28 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
| 29 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 30 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |