Example sentences of "it [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it succeeded last night , courtesy of Iain Dowie 's excellent strike in the ninth minute of this World Cup Group Three game — and four world-class saves from Wright afterwards . |
| 2 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 3 | Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 4 | The Wallis window in the south aisle also reflects early church history : it represents 7th century missionaries converging in East Yorkshire . |
| 5 | The team certainly lived up to its reputation as it whipped first place from under the noses of the Golden Wonder team at the end of the last game . |
| 6 | It also has some integration work underway designed to tie-in its servers more closely with workstations from NeXT Computer , following the reseller agreement it announced last year . |
| 7 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 8 | The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy . |
| 9 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 10 | It became second nature . ’ |
| 11 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
| 12 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 13 | As I understand it , MacAlpine is likely to withdraw the planning application for limited working it made last year and concentrate on pursuing its Interim Development Order application with Dyfed County Council . |
| 14 | It beats last year 's record of 47 ( in Atlanta ) by 9 . |
| 15 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 16 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 17 | Every aspect of the trip is analysed to see Where we went wrong and how we can prevent it happening next time . |
| 18 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 19 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 20 | ‘ It starts first time , every time , ’ she says of her Citroen AX . |
| 21 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 22 | Reputedly in poor condition when it surfaced last year ‘ glossed and cleaned up ’ was one description the painting has been consigned from the Wernher Collection at Luton Hoo , Bedfordshire . |
| 23 | It ships next quarter ; no price was given . |
| 24 | Priced at from $240 it ships next month . |
| 25 | It ships next month . |
| 26 | Does it clear first time ? |
| 27 | No there are n't , I had it done last year at erm , oh what 's it called , , Sidcup . |
| 28 | I 've seen it done last week , . |
| 29 | Santa Clara , California-based RasterOps Corp warns that it will record an operating loss and take a $5m to $7m restructuring charge for the third quarter ending March 31 : it says third quarter sales will be about equal to the second quarter 's $25m , and it blames ‘ general market softness and lingering effects of the transition from third party channels to its own sales force . |
| 30 | It says third parties will use the Macintosh Compatibility Module , which enables shrink-wrapped Mac applications to run on the Apple-IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerOpen-PowerPC system under development . |