Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end . |
| 3 | It involves a huge staff of unseen hands working together to give four guys a trouble-free two hours on stage every night . |
| 4 | In the classical period , especially under Rome , it became an accepted means of satisfying the blood lust of the plebs by the chase and slaughtering of animals in the arena . |
| 5 | It was in the context not of an isolated individual saying it to another isolated individual , but actually feeling that this identity had a social location , a political and moral location , because it involved a whole series of things which meant you were n't just a voice crying in the wilderness . |
| 6 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 7 | So you 're halving the tempo , but , it needs a slight roe that means just lead into it , so , , two and one , can do that , but you 're doing , , and it 's instable for ever . |
| 8 | ‘ It has a tiny chip.Just here , on the cuff . |
| 9 | At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions . |
| 10 | They 'll be able to fish for carp in the estate lake ; view the famous hall with its unique flying staircase … so-called because it has no visible means of support or wander throught the wood that the Lonsdales planted in memory of their son . |
| 11 | As for Unix , here Cognos has been able to make use of third parties ( it has no direct sales force for Unix products ) but says the going has been tough because of the recession as a PowerHouse Unix sale tends to occur with the new purchase of a Unix box with applications . |
| 12 | Keyence turns this convention on its head : not only does it subcontract manufacturing , but it has an in-house sales team that accounts for fully half its workforce . |
| 13 | It has an active data dictionary and gives a relational view of the database . |
| 14 | It designed a massive 400m-ecu ( $100m ) programme for 1991 in the context of the break-up of the Soviet Union and of rapidly changing government structures . |
| 15 | It holds a regular series of seminars at which reports are presented on research currently in progress . |
| 16 | What does it benefit the British people of Northern Ireland ( for the Ulster-born members of the IRA are British whether they like it or not ) randomly to murder British children in Warrington ? |
| 17 | Informix was expecting a $22m cheque last week for its share of the 60,000-user US Army RCAS contract which is worth $1.6bn overall : it received an initial $5m payment back in January . |
| 18 | ACET an claim repayment of £250 so it received the full £1,000 . |
| 19 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 20 | It says the common folk , the crowds , the populous , they heard him gladly because he spoke as one having authority ! |
| 21 | Today it possesses a distinguished staff , many with international reputations , closely involved in postgraduate education and the advancement of legal knowledge . |
| 22 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 23 | It costs a daunting $48,100 with 3.9Gb and the additional 2Gb drives are $5,835 apiece . |
| 24 | As a cartridge-only game it costs a hefty £14.95 but when you consider the quality you 're receiving , could you do without this purchase ? |
| 25 | It costs a whopping £19,907 and is currently on offer only as a left-hooker , although right-hand drive will be available towards the end of the year . |
| 26 | It 's the machine every Game Boy owner would like , but it costs a prohibitive £129.99 if bought with a Sonic The Hedgehog cart . |
| 27 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 28 | Coun Brady said : ‘ Our figures show it costs the public £202 per week , £10,500 per year to place a family of four in bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 29 | It costs the French £20 million a year to fight rabies , in vaccination , surveillance and research . |
| 30 | Who does the heart hurt when it sees the unattended pair of shoes ? |