Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [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 | It represents 125,000 officers in what is unfortunately only too truly the sharp end of policing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It displays forty-eight coats of arms , in three lines of sixteen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ; in fact more than the Costa Brava , Mallorca and the French Riviera . |
| 10 | It offers five destinations in yearly rotation . |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | DIM P%-1 is a special case ; it reserves zero bytes of memory . |
| 13 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 14 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 15 | It stands 1100 feet above the Itria Valley and is a superb base for touring the region . |
| 16 | It stands six miles outside Oxford , in lovely and in those days remote country , with one bus a day . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | It covers six topics including the popular Sport & Entertainment , Science & Computing , Geography and others . |
| 19 | It covers 550 staff across the board , from the finance department , through to housing , in 12 remote sites . |
| 20 | It covers 237,216 acres of mountains , lakes , and river valleys , providing varied wildlife habitats . |
| 21 | Camp Chewonki is a great place ; it covers 400 acres on a peninsula which extends into Montsweag Bay , a protected arm of the sea . |
| 22 | Belfast Telegraph Plan 82 could fit the bill because it covers 20 selections with a fine guarantee of at least seven 1-1 draws together if eight of your 20 selections end as 1-1 draws . |
| 23 | Above all , it highlights two aspects of the curriculum . |
| 24 | It has six editions in the Top 40 — Genus III the highest placed at Number 3 . |
| 25 | It has eight pages of interesting reading . |
| 26 | Well illustrated and easy on the mathematics , it has 100 pages on spectroscopy . |
| 27 | It says it has 100 orders for the systems , nine models of the HP 3000 and HP 9000 lines ; a handful of the new 3000s went out in August ; the first 9000s should be shipping this month . |
| 28 | But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none . |
| 29 | At the moment , it has two products under development : OpenLimits , a global risk management product , developed with the help of Hewlett-Packard , and due for release in September ; and Market-Making . |
| 30 | And in cold-blooded crimewriters Gerald Harper ( Harold Kent ) and William Gaunt ( Paul Riggs ) , it has two actors with the depth to extract doubt from the gravest situation . |