Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [num] [noun pl] " 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 | At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 . |
| 3 | Overland , it needs to see 4 satellites at any one time to give a three dimensional ‘ fix ’ including altitude . |
| 4 | … 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 . |
| 5 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 6 | Before Christmas , it plans to invite 40 pastors and community leaders from throughout Zaire to take part in a seven day seminar entitled ‘ Communication and the Democratic Process ’ . |
| 7 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 8 | And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits . |
| 9 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
| 10 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 11 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 12 | Enough of it survived to show two canthari , one of which ( pI . |
| 13 | Siemens AG has formed a joint venture with the city of Shanghai and the Chinese Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications to produce digital mobile phones and base stations : it aims to make 300,000 phones and 500 base stations each year . |
| 14 | It hopes to mount 15 flights a day — carrying enough food to feed 500,000 of the most desperate famine victims . |
| 15 | The college 's development plan reveals that it hopes to give 700 pupils a year a taste of education in one of nine countries funds permitting . |
| 16 | While it hopes to build 500 houses before winding up in 1999 , the corporation said yesterday that it hoped to start transferring houses to the proposed Irvine Housing Association in 1993 . |
| 17 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 18 | Fujitsu says it expects to sell 100,000 units per month . |
| 19 | It expects to attract 2,000 attendees . |
| 20 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 21 | Built at 9am ( unless if ‘ it be Full Sea , the Service shall cease ’ ) it had to withstand three tides . |
| 22 | It seeks to answer three questions . |
| 23 | Similarly , in response to the Feb. 19 announcement by the major car manufacturer Autolatina ( the holding company for Ford and Volkswagen in Brazil ) that it intended to shed 8,000 jobs , workers at two car plants in Sao Bernardo near Sao Paulo stopped production and blocked a highway , and leaders of the Sao Paulo Metal Worker 's Union stated that they would not accept the dismissals . |
| 24 | The CCC said that in order to make the transition from the current annual payment schedule , which is ordinarily in March , it intended to make three distributions during calendar year 1993 . |