Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American poet Marianne Moore said that she had sometimes to send a piece of work to forty different magazines before it was finally accepted . |
| 2 | To allow it to maintain the 300 nuclear weapons that it is currently estimated to hold — including 100 tactical weapons — can only provoke and encourage the Arab states ' determination to obtain nuclear arsenals . |
| 3 | Although Next Computer Inc has stumbled , Data General Corp , which last year signed to resell Next boxes , will maintain a relationship with Steve Jobs ' firm — it says it was always more interested in the NextStep software anyway , and will market the environment on its OEMed 80486 personal computers once it becomes available . |
| 4 | The Abbey National gave itsmembers a bonus in the form of 100 free shares when it became a public limited company in July . |
| 5 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 6 | In 1990 Tesco made the Association the beneficiary of one of the six nationwide collections that it allows in its stores . |
| 7 | It had six million viewers and it 's by far the most popular thing I 've done , but I do think it was watched by all types and ages of people . ’ |
| 8 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 9 | The Science Library holds a comprehensive collection of some 600 technical journals and it is in this field that new developments are first reported . |
| 10 | This aim is underpinned by three interrelated objectives and it is not without significance how they complement and serve to implement the White Paper 's own trinity of ‘ aims of supervision ’ , that is , protection of the public , prevention of reoffending and successful reintegration of the offender in the community ( p. 35 , para. 7.3 ) . |
| 11 | It 's , I mean they 're , okay you 're applying from three different standpoints but it 's coming out of one well budgetholder 's erm kitty . |
| 12 | The Arab world has now broken up into three separate components and it is difficult to see how they can be reassembled . |
| 13 | It will make Lyles into a single factory and not split into three separate units as it is now with its warehouse inconveniently separated . |
| 14 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 15 | The fuselage broke into three major sections when it separated at the wing leading edge and wing trailing edge and the wreckage came to a stop 625 feet short of the runway pavement . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) says that the Bill has been railroaded through the House , but I remind him that it is three long years since it was introduced . |
| 17 | The French were in fact asking for 270 billion francs and it was hard to see how the distinction could be made between helping to improve the French position in Europe and the position in Vietnam . |
| 18 | Smith who 's got his kicking boot working again added a penalty too , and Orrel came back with three more points but it was Gloucester 's day . |
| 19 | I have already said that I shall answer the three particular issues that it raised . |
| 20 | Made from ripstop nylon , each shelter comes in three bright colours so it can be spotted out on the hill . |
| 21 | The government even paid ‘ compensation ’ to 43,000 collective farmers after it halted the system of annual agrarian bank ‘ loans ’ that were rarely repaid . |
| 22 | ‘ We judge our support on the basis of the MPs we talk to , lists that are drawn up , early day motions that are signed , ’ says Robertson , who believes he can count on the public support of maybe seventy Conservative MPs if it comes to a confrontation with John Major . |
| 23 | Cambridge United and Middlesbrough were unable to break the deadlock in the first half of their match , but Taylor gave Cambridge the lead after sixty seven minutes and it was Taylor who made it two nil fifteen minutes from time to give Cambridge a memorable victory . |
| 24 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 25 | If you wish to see the Grand Canyon in colour do so quickly ; ten more years and it will all be black and white . |
| 26 | Psycho made over 4,000 consecutive appearances before it was withdrawn in 1880 . |
| 27 | On this basis the cataloguing of this periodical collection could need as many as 25 000 records before it is completed ! |
| 28 | On this side we have an agreement in fighting the eighty seven seats and it certainly in terms of Wales , we are going to win all five of them . |
| 29 | A HEALTH authority was last night trying to trace 147 former patients after it was discovered that a surgeon at a hospital where they had operations was a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 30 | I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference . |