Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There we would see about 30 pissed-up shaggers giving it some behind the piled-high sun loungers ( no standards ) . |
| 2 | His suggestion was welcomed , and two months later the six foreign ministers passed it on to experts for their consideration . |
| 3 | At the beginning of 1991 British Airways decided it must reduce its workforce by 4500 within six months . |
| 4 | The international settings and a word-list in six different languages give it a truly world-wide appeal . |
| 5 | There are six main ways to obtain it : |
| 6 | For others of the six original problems mentioned it is possible to create stages to effect change in exactly the same way . |
| 7 | Before the 1964–70 Labour government made it Department of Education and Science policy , a number of local authorities had already set up comprehensive schools . |
| 8 | Three different horses won it four years running . |
| 9 | All three Synoptic Gospels make it clear which day it is . |
| 10 | Whilst other space agencies have equally ambitious plans , they remain as blueprints , or , as one European scientist puts it , ‘ pie-in-the-sky-eyes-in-the-sky . ’ |
| 11 | As one top sharedealer put it , " You 're here to make yourselves money , not your clients . " |
| 12 | Does it sprout five different endings does it ? |
| 13 | One popular hypothesis has it that variations in rates of sea-floor spreading are the controlling factor ( Hays & Pitman , 1973 ) . |
| 14 | One simple way to prevent it would be to fit a broad-band electrical filter next to every electricity meter . |
| 15 | As one prominent eugenicist put it , the state had ‘ neither womb nor breasts ’ and therefore needed to extend protection to those who had . |
| 16 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 17 | This is not to say that everyone could name the book ( one chief adviser described it as ‘ the shiny red book which the drama adviser insisted I read ’ ) , nor in some instances was its actual existence known although its influence could be recognized . |
| 18 | This had been consolidated in power by the end of the fourteenth century , after the one serious attempt to overthrow it . |
| 19 | It means accepting , as one grieving woman put it , ‘ that there was something alive in you , and that you ended that process ’ . |
| 20 | Many members of the Bar still believe that the European Community is , as one Tory MP put it very recently , airy-fairy . |
| 21 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 22 | As one pro-contra advertisement put it , appealing for 53 cents a day to support a mercenary called ‘ Charley ’ and his machine-gun , ‘ There is no ‘ country ’ called Nicaragua , only a nation of people living under a totalitarian regime . ’ |
| 23 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
| 24 | The 1966 White Paper made it clear that the polytechnics were not to have a monopoly of higher education in the public sector , but they were to have priority development in resource allocations for this purpose . |
| 25 | Each day held a different challenge or , as one long-standing employee put it : ‘ We all lived to go to work . ’ |
| 26 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 27 | As one international expert put it : ‘ Computers do n't clothe , do n't cure , do n't feed . |
| 28 | As one famous sportsman put it , ‘ Agree to do something for nothing and they 'll tell you where the bus stop is ; ask to be paid and they 'll send the limo . ’ |
| 29 | It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic … |
| 30 | One disgruntled woman found it disgusting that 35 people could be expected to stand per 100 seated , with no guarantee of a seat . |