Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 2 | It costs thousands of pounds ( a recent acquisition of a mainframe computer by a polytechnic cost £300 , OOO ) and it needs dedicated professional staff to operate and maintain it . |
| 3 | The Calderdale TEC says that it has many young people waiting . |
| 4 | It has large and influential cereals and sugar barons in the north , but it has many small livestock farmers as well . |
| 5 | It has small red fruit and large , dark brown leaves . |
| 6 | It has some plummy fruit , with sufficient tannin for only £2.74 . |
| 7 | It contains several rare species and is the home of Britain 's rarest spider , the great raft spider , which is known in only one other site in the UK ( at Pevensey in East Sussex ) and has all but disappeared elsewhere in Europe because of the draining of its fenland habitats . |
| 8 | Readers Digest A to Z of Sewing Guide , lots of other things as well for a fiver , it cost thirty five quid . |
| 9 | and erm they had it back within a week and it cost twenty eight quid |
| 10 | This figure does not include school children , students , housewives , mothers with small children , senior citizens , or people who are unemployed ; nor does it include those many people who struggle into work with an aching back . |
| 11 | Erm , if you turn over the page it says seventy eight percent of female claims have been on the diagnosis of cancer , and it gives you a breakdown of the condition and the age when diagnosed . |
| 12 | But this technique was not considered very reliable , nor could it provide other important data on the population , such as its sex distribution . |
| 13 | It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap . |
| 14 | Do you know it costs thirty five pence from Bentley into town |
| 15 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 16 | ‘ They reckon it killed sixteen thousand people . ’ |
| 17 | It takes 24,000 cubic ft of helium to fill the Met Office research balloon . |
| 18 | It employs six thousand people nationwide , two hundred at the headquarters in Milton Keynes , others at Parcelforce depots like Bicester in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | Most of the redundancies at Express Lifts will be at the company 's headquarters in Northampton , where it employs eight hundred people . |
| 20 | It covered some 1000 sq.km and stood at 393 metres below sea level in the 1930s . |
| 21 | It helps young deaf people to gain confidence and become active members of the hearing world . ’ |
| 22 | Once you 've finished steam cleaning the windows , simply switch off your Steamatic , swivel the squeegee head around and use it to remove any remaining condensation. you 'll notice the sparkling difference immediately . |
| 23 | Suffice it to say many important graphics and sound algorithms can take advantage of the design . |
| 24 | It had those coloured people on it . |
| 25 | We have undertaken a considerable change from direct to indirect taxes , which is absolutely right because it enables many more people to spend their money as they wish . |
| 26 | In California , it extends some 400 km along the coast from Sonoma County to Eureka . |
| 27 | Interestingly , it featured such unusual aircraft as the Seversky Amphibian , Miles Merlin and Blackburn Perth flying-boat . |
| 28 | It suits some powerful people that A levels should survive . |
| 29 | It comprises four new works , each created from a single block of Purbeck stone quarried in Dorset . |