Example sentences of "it [verb] one [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rated one resident policeman and a mention in the Shell Guide . |
| 2 | The task is immense , painfully long-term and difficult to ‘ sell ’ , but it has one great merit as a grounding for optimism : there is no alternative , no quick fix . |
| 3 | Long drawn out and unpredictable as the process may be , it has one great advantage for the policy-maker . |
| 4 | It has one major party , the Conservatives , one minor party , Labour , and one peripheral party , the Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | It has one central point of teaching and the details of the story make that point both clear and vivid . |
| 6 | The UN thinks it has one other card . |
| 7 | It has one senior bishop , two suffragans , one dean , four archdeacons , and 21 rural deans of who one is a woman . |
| 8 | It has one main kitchen with four fridges plus a store room with two freezers ( one walk-in ) and a fridge , in addition to two cafe-style outlets with either one or two fridges . |
| 9 | If it has one significant advantage , other than its relatively low cost , it is in its ability to grow back into the complete XPS system should the user ever require such capabilities . |
| 10 | On Greek cross plan , it has one square tower over the crossing and an octagonal one over each of the four arms ( 357 ) . |
| 11 | It has one single-minded brain which coordinates a cooperative of limbs and sense organs to achieve one end . |
| 12 | If we feel sorry for the dying cat that can not understand what is happening to it , we should remember that it has one enormous advantage over us : it has no fear of death , which is something we humans must all carry with us throughout our long lives . |
| 13 | ‘ But it has one enormous advantage over Bedfordshire Comprehensive . ’ |
| 14 | It contains one first-magnitude star , Fomalhaut ( 1.2 ) , and no others above 4.4 . |
| 15 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 16 | The second new router , the Model 7250 , is designed as a low-cost high-performance feeder node for the other RX 7000 models , and is basically a three-port version of the Model 7500 : it holds one forwarding processor and up to three interface cards which — as with the rest of the family — can be any mix of Ethernet , Token Ring or wide area interfaces . |
| 17 | The reader knows enough about the political skills and sophistication of the Zuwaya and their rivals to resist the perhaps supercilious stereotype contained in Le Monde 's use of ‘ tribe ’ : the people far from backward or atavistic , the demand for bloodwealth ( whoever made it ) contested rather than misunderstood ; it opposed one particular notion of government with another . |
| 18 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |
| 19 | So body language if you read a lot of the books on body language it takes one single action and it interprets it based on that . |
| 20 | It established one other thing , Ken was now one of the producer 's best friends , in fact , the only actor friend whom he had . |
| 21 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 22 | There are some exceptions to the rigours of this rule : an oral agreement was allowed to be proved where it formed one comprehensive contract with the written lease ( Walker Property Investments ( Brighton ) Ltd v Walker ( 1947 ) 177 LT 204 ) ; and a tenant in breach of the user covenant in his written lease was allowed to prove an antecedent oral collateral contract permitting the breach complained of ( City and Westminster Properties ( 1934 ) Ltd v Mudd [ 1959 ] Ch 129 ) . |
| 23 | It had one major disadvantage . |
| 24 | It had one small room which acted as both day-room and bed-room . |
| 25 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
| 26 | However , it shares one great difficulty with Appleton 's idea : it is impossible to test . |