Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And Maastricht promises to make the Europe-machine turn still faster because it pre-emptively convokes the next set of constitutional talks for 1996 .
2 SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy .
3 It normally takes the first ten minutes of any brisk walk to get into a rhythm and feel aerobic , so increasing the time from 20 to 30 minutes is effectively doubling the aerobic benefits .
4 While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell .
5 But it still has the second highest unemployment rate in Britain and the highest in England , so the economy and the creation of new jobs are critical to voters .
6 It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 .
7 It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour : twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned .
8 It also forced the ninth triple tie of the competition .
9 There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off .
10 The swing was so wild that it unbalanced Sharpe , but it also terrified the second Dragoon who swerved frantically away from the blade 's hissing reach .
11 It also needs a second additive to help it dissolve and raises the vapour pressure of petrol , which can cause havoc with a car 's Fuel pumping system .
12 It also needed a second factor , a change in the general attitude to family size , and this seems to have begun well before the 1870s .
13 It also marked a first move towards meeting demands by Congress for major reductions in the strength of the armed services by 1994 , in the light of decreasing tensions between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Warsaw Pact .
14 It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation .
15 Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan .
16 Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth .
17 It publicly demonstrated the first NT/SMP version running on a 16-processor Symmetry back in August to help Microsoft allay reports that NT 's SMP capabilities are severely limited and would require heavy re-architecting .
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