Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope it goes off one day . |
| 2 | Nor does it explain why one type of adaptation rather than another occurs ; for example , why innovation occurs rather than retreatism , or vice-versa . |
| 3 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 4 | Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution . |
| 5 | And in the end it offers not one way , as the ideologue or the mystic would claim , but rather an acceptance that diversity is forever a fact of life . |
| 6 | It needs only one breakdown to stop the whole process , and if the operators are not careful whole pages can ‘ disappear ’ inside the computer . |
| 7 | It has just one pickup and we 've talked about the idea of doing a version of it with a pickup in the bridge that you can mix in too . |
| 8 | Currently , it has about 550,000 motor policies in force ; last year , in terms of written premiums , it wrote £84m , and this year it is looking at £150m-plus . |
| 9 | It has only four combat aircraft — armed maritime reconnaissance aircraft — and no armed helicopters . |
| 10 | If the project is to be successful , it is vital that , as with the Swiss national bank , when the board of that monetary institution meets , it has only one consideration in mind — how to reconcile the requirements of price stability and liquidity in the Community as a whole . |
| 11 | Forget the doubters : British Coal knows that it has only one way to go , and that is forward . |
| 12 | Nice rich reds and browns in the colour , it has only one drawback in the shape of some sharp edges which may cut you or your fish . |
| 13 | There was another coalfield on the west coast the Cumberland coalfield — but this had only 16 mines and now it has only one mine but several opencast workings . |
| 14 | It has only one aim and that is to please for a fee . ’ |
| 15 | Unlike other brands , it contains only one type of non-irritant sunscreen . |
| 16 | It was called the Wyrmberg and it rose almost one half of a mile above the green valley ; a mountain huge , grey and upside down . |
| 17 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 18 | ‘ It says just one ticket , my lord . ’ |
| 19 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 20 | At the moment it costs around one pound twenty a pint . |
| 21 | They always say the thought might be worse and to , we know it costs about , it costs about ten pound to buy well , I think at the end of the day worth it , is to put them out on a paper plate . |
| 22 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 23 | This will generate lower transactions costs than arbitrage as it requires only one sale of shares and one purchase of futures — assuming that the investor would have closed out his or her long position in shares at the delivery date anyway , or is content to roll over the long futures position until they would otherwise have sold their share portfolio . |
| 24 | It takes only one missile to get through , and lives may be lost , not to mention the ship . |
| 25 | It takes only one leak to sink a ship , one gate to let in a Trojan horse . |
| 26 | Roddy Greig , Manager , Transport and Messenger Services , said , ‘ It takes only seven plastic cups to produce enough material to manufacture a 12-inch ruler . |
| 27 | It began only one month after Beida 's ninetieth anniversary with the ‘ murder ’ of a postgraduate student , Chai Qing Feng , at a nearby snackbar . |
| 28 | The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion . |
| 29 | She reported that she was sure she would be able to prove something , but it needed just one operation , with more money . |
| 30 | He had taken his jacket off ; it trailed over one shoulder , held in the hook of one finger . |