Example sentences of "it be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 2 | ‘ I can remember it being done 15 years ago at Hodder & Stoughton . ’ |
| 3 | And there still waiting on the twenty fourth May , I said well I have n't got it yet , he said no it 's taking two weeks or so . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's done six Auto shows , and 26 stops on Iacocca 's '90s tour and its never failed once , ’ said its minder . |
| 5 | I said , you know , it 's costing fifteen pound a week in a , a least and you you 're you 're paying ten and he said , no he said , he said I think that 's ample , he said . |
| 6 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 7 | It 's called Two Gentlemen of Veronna ? |
| 8 | It 's making a mockery of it , it 's showing one father can get away with what another father ca n't . |
| 9 | It 's expected 30,000 people will use this pub over the weekend . |
| 10 | The firm claims it 's sold 390 licences since March and has another 250 copies in test sites . |
| 11 | I 'm just surprised it 's taken two weeks . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , it 's taken 4 years and £600 million to create to the new Peugeot 605 range . |
| 13 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 14 | It 's taken five years and sixty thousand pounds to get this far … half way . |
| 15 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 16 | It 's taken 14 weeks less than planned . |
| 17 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 18 | It 's taken 3 years of planning , £16,000 in donations and bucketfuls of elbow grease to install the collection in the 12th century church and all for a parish of fewer than 700 people . |
| 19 | It 's taken 3 years to build . |
| 20 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 21 | It 's taken ten years to convert the whole farm and today it offers a vision of what organic farms of the future could look like . |
| 22 | It 's taken 114 years to build up Blackwells from a one-room shop to today 's multi-million pound business . |
| 23 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 24 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 25 | This is the game … this is the goal the Swindon fans will treasure for ever … their first win in the Premiership … it 's taken three months and sixteen games to get it … |
| 26 | It 's offering ten pounds to anyone who 's prepared to stand in line with a suspect , and is hoping that people of all ages , colours , shapes and sizes will come forward . |
| 27 | The county council 's already provided an advisory route directing lorries away from the town centre — now it 's going one step further , banning all vehicles weighing more than seven and a half tonnes . |
| 28 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 29 | It 's changed one girls view of snakes . |
| 30 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |