Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's understood all six will plead not guilty . |
| 2 | Since they started eight weeks ago , Thames Water estimate it 's saved 350 million gallons of water . |
| 3 | It 's hoped all 500 operations will have been completed within just 6 weeks . |
| 4 | A ticket agency is closing down claiming it 's lost fifty thousand pounds following the last minute cancellation of a concert by the pop star Prince . |
| 5 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 6 | So far it 's collected some 40 exhibitors and they 're the kind of brand names show managers love : DEC , HP , Sun , SCO , USL , UI , Unisys , NCR , Compaq , Univel and MIPS/Silicon Graphics . |
| 7 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
| 8 | Meanwhile , British Gas has announced it 's to cut twelve hundred jobs as part of restructuring the company . |
| 9 | It 's predicted another seven thousand jobs will be created this year … the population will number a quarter of a million by the end of the century . |
| 10 | It 's taken nine hundred men just two years to complete the project . |
| 11 | But now it 's recruiting three hundred temporary employees for between three and six months to help launch the production of several new machines . |
| 12 | But now it 's recruiting three hundred temporary employees for between three and six months to help launch the production of several new machines . |
| 13 | It 's juxtaposing those two things . |
| 14 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 15 | The 13th reform were believed to be sufficient to allow locos to work over the bridge and it is understood that 37/4 's will not be allowed over . |
| 16 | The Finance Ministry announced on Oct. 8 that it was to punish all four by banning them from trading in equities for a period of one month . |
| 17 | type of entertainment , then it was a pantomime , Beauty and the Beast , but they keep as near to the original script as they can always , well it was written eighteen fourteen or something . |
| 18 | It was dated nineteen thirty-nine , and it was about a visit to London . ’ |
| 19 | In the beginning it had a circulation of two thousand ; by 1930 it was selling nine thousand copies per month at ten cents . |
| 20 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 21 | it was agreed that thirty one January would be set as a deadline for recruiting national account execs , pending a salary review |
| 22 | By the end of the decade it was importing 8–9 million barrels per day , or about 30 per cent of OPEC output . |
| 23 | In 1984 it was estimated that three-fifths of part-time workers — some 2.75 million employees , mostly women — were earning below the National Insurance threshold ( Employment Gazette , 1984 ) and , given the rise in female part-time employment , the figure would be much higher today . |
| 24 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 25 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 26 | You 'd say , rubbish I did n't even want to know whether it was say two thousand two hundred and twenty six . |
| 27 | It was proposed that seven 13 . |