Example sentences of "it [vb -s] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you pull this out and it goes the next time start it turn it over , rewind it to the front . |
| 2 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
| 3 | It represents the next stage in the company 's three-pronged approach to the market , along with the existing consumer PCS line and standard ‘ cost sensitive M300 series . |
| 4 | Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works . |
| 5 | Like the rest of the glass , he wrote , it defies the second law of thermo-dynamics . |
| 6 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |
| 7 | Together with Caedwalla 's grant of land in Battersea in Surrey , also to the monastery of Barking ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , it constitutes the first sign of an extension of western Saxon influence north of the Thames and an indication of potential development . |
| 8 | It covers the first item that I can think of to be prohibited from schools ... |
| 9 | It has the first research information and library service to be registered to ISO9001 . |
| 10 | Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 11 | Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 12 | Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system , built using Chorus Systemes SA 's Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel 's Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors . |
| 13 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 14 | It says the last programme , so is it ? |
| 15 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 16 | When the river is nearing low ebb , vast stretches of sand are laid bare , but channels of grey brown water of varying widths and depths continue to rush out between the sand formations until it meets the next tide coming in , twelve hours later . |
| 17 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 18 | A series of lectures organized by the National Arts Collections Fund focusing on creating and preserving collections and will be held during the fair ; it marks the first time that the NACF has initiated a project at a trade fair . |
| 19 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 20 | A more appropriate image of Britain as it approaches the twenty-first century is of the economy governed by a not-so-hidden engine , working for greater inequality , both in rewards and life chances . |
| 21 | Labour has promised to restore Trades Union rights to workers at GCHQ in Cheltenham if it forms the next Government . |
| 22 | The X Business Group is going to throw what it calls the first industry conference for X Windows , GUE and client/server technology June 7-8 , just before Xhibition , at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose , California . |
| 23 | I 've got one C D that every time I put it on it erm speeds up really , really fast and it jumps the next track and does the same then . |
| 24 | Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded . |
| 25 | IT SEEMS the last Christmas of the decade will be more green than white . |
| 26 | The hard copy formatter opens one or more volumes in the hard copy directory for each charge code specified in the configuration file , when it finds the first module which is associated with the given charge code and which has not been hard copied . |
| 27 | On line five it finds the third colour , white and on line seven the fourth colour , black . |
| 28 | It means the Third World is exporting more commodities in terms of quantity , but the money it earns from them is reduced and can buy fewer and fewer imported goods . |
| 29 | and it does the last thing you 've done times the |
| 30 | It commemmorates the 25th anniversary of the publication of a similar appeal for a change in the law which achieved nothing . |