Example sentences of "it [verb] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it boasts little in the way of modern conveniences , it offers many services : mountain hut , camping area and thunderbox , basic shop — in truth very basic and equally expensive — bakery , fish , fish and more fish , church and pure honesty . |
| 2 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 3 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 4 | When it is established it develops many runners which bear green shoots at intervals . |
| 5 | It illustrates many points in this chapter , but above all the point about blaming forest users . |
| 6 | Nelson 's detailed account is well worth close scrutiny for it illustrates many aspects of socio-ecology most cogently . |
| 7 | It has many advantages over the traditional ‘ Winchesters ’ with a lower centre of gravity and a carefully controlled flow of glass within the mould so that there are no weak spots or pressure-vulnerable areas . |
| 8 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |
| 9 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 10 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , as it stands at present it has many deficiencies , because : |
| 12 | Love is the largest region of the transcendent world and it has many forms — there can be love of God , love of nature , and the love of a human being and love of our fellowmen . |
| 13 | Play is many things to the child and it has many meanings . |
| 14 | But Domesday was concerned with tenants and householders , not with heads ; it has many omissions ; and its arithmetic is often baffling . |
| 15 | Although you do not appear to feel the ardour which might be desirable so early in a marriage , you will find it has many rewards , I am sure . |
| 16 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 17 | This view may be initially attractive , but it has many difficulties ( Gale , 1968 ) . |
| 18 | One of the most powerful fortresses in Europe , it has many parts , built at different times . |
| 19 | The wind talks and whispers and sings — it has many voices . |
| 20 | However , it has many applications , particularly within the petrochemicals industry . |
| 21 | It has many features in common with the Knossos Labyrinth . |
| 22 | It has many similarities with the old Swedish Mountain cattle ( and indeed two bulls of that type were imported in 1949 ) and it also has an unusually high incidence of a particular chromosomal translocation which might have a very minor effect on fertility . |
| 23 | It has many shops , banks and services . |
| 24 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 25 | It has many causes : damage caused by internal parasites , mouldy food or hay , stones and other foreign objects that have been eaten by the horse , or most importantly , stress and anxiety . |
| 26 | It is evident that however the relationship is conceived it contains many elements of disorder and conflict , and that if there is not a substantial movement , in the medium-term future , towards greater economic equality among the nations of the world , the prospects for peaceful international cooperation will become still more discouraging . |
| 27 | One child is particularly proud of his work : it contains many letters , large and boldly formed , and this was the first occasion that he had written anything since arriving in the school . |
| 28 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 29 | It contains many replicas of France 's second empire . |
| 30 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |