Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end . |
| 2 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 3 | It had obviously taken the wrong channel and become wedged on a rising shelf of rock strata which traversed the trough about fifty yards before it reached the lake surrounding the breakwater . |
| 4 | Fine china maker Wedgwood is to shed 160 jobs when it shuts the Johnson Brothers ' Hanley Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 5 | The American Psychological Association only established a Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in 1987 , twelve years after it founded the Division of the Psychology of Women . |
| 6 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 7 | Butler had shown a keen personal interest in the preparation of the White Paper which underwent at least four drafts before it reached the finished version . |
| 8 | Then its rhythmic thump turned to thunder and the turbo 's whistle soared up two octaves as it accelerated the rake of blue and grey Mk 1s along the platform . |