Example sentences of "it [verb] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ACET an claim repayment of £250 so it received the full £1,000 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It says the common folk , the crowds , the populous , they heard him gladly because he spoke as one having authority ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It costs the French £20 million a year to fight rabies , in vaccination , surveillance and research . |
| 8 | Who does the heart hurt when it sees the unattended pair of shoes ? |
| 9 | It can include the immediate team of tutors and clinical teachers within the school of nursing , but in the wider sense it includes the medical staff and all trained staff of wards and departments , each with their special skills , personalities and valuable experience . |
| 10 | In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down ! |
| 11 | Referring , then , to the original simple democracy , it affords the true data from which governments on a large scale can begin . |
| 12 | It charges the patient £3 a day for the hire of the set and each hospital receives 10% of revenues . |
| 13 | Well it seems the obvious means of transport . |
| 14 | It took the sad pair a long time to burn — I once read that the bill for the execution , including stake , chains and timber , came to about £3.7shillings ; . |
| 15 | This year , for instance , it bought the remaining 50% of Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland , a surety and fidelity business with annual gross premiums of about $130m , from Swiss Reinsurance , its Zurich neighbour . |
| 16 | The United States had taken the initiative in this development , since it appeared the only means by which the Americans could disengage gradually from Korea with some hope that the UN could produce a solution that would sustain south Korea for at least a limited period . |
| 17 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 18 | I think it enables the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that Councillors and Local Authorities have in actually trying to carry out the sort of things they want . |
| 19 | Managing director of International Software , Richard North , says that , while the Brentford , Middlesex company generates 70% of its revenues from reselling software and providing support services to approximately 4,500 customers — or what he claims to be 20% of the UK corporate market — it earns the remaining 30% from negotiating favourable licence deals with software vendors on behalf of large organisations . |