Example sentences of "it [verb] many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 2 | It illustrates many points in this chapter , but above all the point about blaming forest users . |
| 3 | Nelson 's detailed account is well worth close scrutiny for it illustrates many aspects of socio-ecology most cogently . |
| 4 | It has many advantages over the traditional ‘ Winchesters ’ with a lower centre of gravity and a carefully controlled flow of glass within the mould so that there are no weak spots or pressure-vulnerable areas . |
| 5 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |
| 6 | It has many features in common with the Knossos Labyrinth . |
| 7 | It has many similarities with the old Swedish Mountain cattle ( and indeed two bulls of that type were imported in 1949 ) and it also has an unusually high incidence of a particular chromosomal translocation which might have a very minor effect on fertility . |
| 8 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 9 | It is evident that however the relationship is conceived it contains many elements of disorder and conflict , and that if there is not a substantial movement , in the medium-term future , towards greater economic equality among the nations of the world , the prospects for peaceful international cooperation will become still more discouraging . |
| 10 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 11 | It contains many replicas of France 's second empire . |
| 12 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 13 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |
| 14 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 15 | It attracted many workers to Glasgow from all parts of Scotland . |
| 16 | It bears many similarities to Scotland , with the same population and an equally diverse geography . |
| 17 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 18 | It exerts many effects upon the body . |
| 19 | Many thanks for the reading suggestion — it raises many areas of discussion ! |
| 20 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 21 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 22 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
| 23 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 25 | It contained many people of German origin , and although the Germans there represented less than one-third of the population , nevertheless Hitler began demanding the right to their ‘ freedom ’ from foreign rule . |
| 26 | IBM says the Workstation One family obviates the need for this because it combines many features in one product with a common graphical interface . |
| 27 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 28 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 30 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |