Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 2 | The skull with the lead in it doth weigh thirty pounds and sixe ounces , which with the neck-bone , and some other bones ( in like manner full of lead ) are reserued , and kept in a little chest in the said Church , neare to the place where the corps were found ; there to bee showne to strangers as reliques of admiration . |
| 3 | It involves taking 13 juices every hour . |
| 4 | It involves pushing one crate into an adjacent space , thus producing a new naive state , and also extending the sequence of naive operations by this extra push . |
| 5 | At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 . |
| 6 | Overland , it needs to see 4 satellites at any one time to give a three dimensional ‘ fix ’ including altitude . |
| 7 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 8 | For some unknown reason it has moved eleven times . |
| 9 | Fremont , California-based Cirrus Logic Inc says it has received two shareholders ' class action lawsuits alleging it violated US securities laws ; in the usual phrase , it dismisses them as without merit and intends to contest them vigorously . |
| 10 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 11 | The service is short of 369 lawyers , but it has received 517 inquiries about its own articled clerk and pupillage scheme launched in May . |
| 12 | Faber 's agreement came into effect on 1st May ; it has appointed two part time merchandisers to support its reps in monitoring an agreed list of 400 Faber titles . |
| 13 | … for an aspiring educational ideology to be able to mount a serious challenge at the national level it has to link three concepts together : the desired society , the type or types of educated individuals necessary for that society , and the educational means to fulfil these two ends . |
| 14 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 15 | It has announced three options , the most ambitious of which involves the extension of the various stations ' 30 year operating lives by between three and seven years . |
| 16 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 17 | If the one about the little drummer boy under Richmond Castle has appeared once it has appeared 1000 times , which is 1000 times more than anybody has heard the strains of the drum from under the place . |
| 18 | It has developed two types of condition . |
| 19 | The shift is so striking that it has led one commentator ( Young 1984 : 22 ) to talk of an explosion of ‘ civic assertiveness ’ . |
| 20 | Naive Prober appears to have done well , since it has obtained 5 points from that move . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the sheer quantity of nitrate fertilizer that is applied to much farmland — and it has increased five times since the 1930s — ; creates problems from the surface run-off of rainwater which finds its way into drainage channels and ditches and eventually into streams and rivers . |
| 22 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 23 | It has lost 58.7 points in two days and 93.3 points since the Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , hoisted interest rates to 15 per cent on Thursday . |
| 24 | It has submitted three scenarios to a government advisory group allowing for various capacities of electricity production from onshore wind , offshore wind , landfill , hydroelectric , solar cell , wave and forestry schemes . |
| 25 | It has had three chances to cure the structural problems of the UK — abolition of rationing and freeing the interest mechanism from the Dalton experience in the 1950s , the Selsden Man competition and credit control in the 1970s , and the deregulation and monetarism of the 1980s . |
| 26 | In the sixteen years since , it has sold 75,000 copies , and people are still finding it helpful , and I myself often take a chapter for meditation , when my own spirit feels low and dry . |
| 27 | Array 's sales and marketing manager , Paul Barwick , claims it has sold 50 systems since March and expects to sell 600 by the end of the year — it plans SparcClassic and Sparcstation 10 compatibles by the end of the year . |
| 28 | Array 's sales and marketing manager Paul Barwick claims that it has sold 50 systems since March and expects to sell 600 by the end of the year — it plans SparcClassic- and Sparcstation 10-compatibles by the end of the year . |
| 29 | As expected , Ericsson tosses in major parts of its Telecommunications Management and Operations Support family , of which it has sold 65 systems . |
| 30 | Since its foundation it has issued 91 volumes of parish registers , 54 volumes of heraldic visitations and 65 drawn from other sources . |