Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 2 | It crosses two mountain ranges , 561 rivers , 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe . |
| 3 | As before , it is the Standard that we turn to and , as a measure of its interest , it devoted 10 column inches to the event in the issue before the opening , and a further 24 inches in the week afterwards ! |
| 4 | It has six granite columns with Corinthian capitals that are twelve point five metres in height . |
| 5 | The Bosch Cordless Screwdriver ( electric ) is easy to use ; it has two screwdriver bits ( flat blade and cross top ) and is rechargeable , so can be wall-mounted in its charging unit . |
| 6 | Now it has two security guards . |
| 7 | It has two patch pockets and is darted at the front to give a neat silhouette . |
| 8 | Like other simple sugars , glucose is soluble in water ( which is why it is easily digestible ) because it has five hydroxyl groups ( see Appendix 1 ) which have a strong attraction for water molecules , and also because the glucose molecules are physically small enough to shuffle around fairly freely in a liquid , provided there are not too many of them . |
| 9 | It has 50 production units worldwide , representation in more than 100 countries , an annual turnover of more than £780 million , and 17,000 employees . |
| 10 | It has 50 production units worldwide , representation in more than 100 countries , an annual turnover of more than £780 million , and 17,000 employees . |
| 11 | The NPP is building television in its own states , while it has three state radios and three daily newspapers . |
| 12 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 13 | A. griegi differs from all three because it has 2 tentacle scales on each pore , by the shape of the oral papillae and the shape of the arm spines . |
| 14 | Boatswain ’ , no doubt knew how to entertain an audience , just as the Shatford Players had done : ‘ … after it was entangled in the net , it received seventeen musket balls from the Greyhound Cutter ’ ( Gosh ! ) ; ‘ … it was dragged to the shore by seven horses … ’ |
| 15 | It envisages 595 train journeys each year — more than 800 journeys in all . |
| 16 | The disadvantages , however , are that it would be much more expensive to construct , requiring the construction of several bridges , and the fact that while it straddles two council areas , there will be no possibility of support from Ards Borough Council as their Tourist Officer has an agreement with Down District Council not to support a tourist railway in the Ards area as there is already one under way in the Down District area at Downpatrick . |
| 17 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 18 | It takes four place settings and costs £299.90 ( building-in kit extra ) |
| 19 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 20 | The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted . |
| 21 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |
| 22 | It aligns two protein sequences interactively . |
| 23 | It included three paedophile books called Ben and a magazine named The Stud Boys . |
| 24 | It contained eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Edward Burr e-Jones and woodcut borders and initials by Morris himself . |
| 25 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 26 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 27 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 28 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 29 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 30 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |