Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see me and him having it to go one of these days . ’ |
| 2 | It represents one of his assignations . |
| 3 | This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed . |
| 4 | The interior of the church suffered from the dead hand of the restorer between 1897 and 1907 , but it represents one of the most monumental examples of the Romanesque in Bohemia . |
| 5 | Together with BC2 it represents one of the major new general classification schemes of recent years . |
| 6 | It represents one of man 's great architectural feats and was technically a major step forward . |
| 7 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 8 | It displays one of the foremost characteristics of gritstone climbing , and one which is by no means confined to Froggatt : namely a dearth of protection ! . |
| 9 | It is a relevant example because it involves one of the most searing of twentieth-century experiences , replete with both personal and broader political consequences , and it has recently been in the news . |
| 10 | As promised last week , there 's also a four-page report on slimming which I 've found really interesting since it involves one of the finalists in our recent 16+ Model Of The Year competition . |
| 11 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 12 | ‘ Come on , Rachel , you 've been here long enough to know how they love anything like this , especially when it involves one of us or one of the management team . ’ |
| 13 | It involves two of the most intimate personal relationships , that of husband to wife , and of parent to child … |
| 14 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 15 | As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses . |
| 16 | Along with Bologna , Oxford and Paris , it became one of the great centres of medieval scholarship , attracting students from all over Europe . |
| 17 | It became one of the most successful in the district and in 1920 was amalgamated with Hunt , Winterbotham , Strachan & Co . |
| 18 | It became one of the best known ‘ psychotogenic ’ drugs . |
| 19 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 20 | It became one of his regular haunts , as did the Gargoyle , the club founded in the 1920s by David Tennant and run by him and Hermione Baddeley as a meeting-place for society and the arts . |
| 21 | Although the Harter Act compromise was seemingly counterintuitive ( how could the carrier be allowed to exempt itself for its own mistakes of navigation and management ) , it became one of the most internationally influential laws ever enacted by the United States Congress . |
| 22 | Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field . |
| 23 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 24 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 25 | Orion informs me that it sold 60,000 of the revamped hardback , at £3.99 a copy , even before transmission had started . |
| 26 | It sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Britain and the USA . |
| 27 | It sold millions of copies and in 1966 won a special Hugo Award as the best science-fiction series ever . |
| 28 | Last May it sold three of its four Ford dealerships to a management team for £6.7m and changed its name from Godfrey Davis ( Holdings ) . |
| 29 | in Hungary it produced one of the performances , completing five laps in pre-qualifying , the best of which was 23.5secs slower than Thierry Boutsen 's pole winning time . |
| 30 | By contrast 85 per cent of the pupils were said by their teachers to have no experience of Example 14 , although it produced one of the highest success rates among the lowest third . |