Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest complaint was prison food , with just one in eight prisoners saying it was good . |
| 2 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 3 | Fifty P bet it 'll be for him ! |
| 4 | But those eight survivors saw it differently — and lived to show that it can be conquered — with the right blend of indestructibility between man and machine . |
| 5 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 6 | One patient complained of heartburn and required the administration of H 2 antagonists to relieve it . |
| 7 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 8 | It was also planned to extensively landscape the road with tree planting over the next 12 months to make it blend in with the surrounding area . |
| 9 | she said she would erm cos it 's erm well it would work out about forty pound to have it done , thirty five |
| 10 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 11 | It took 2 years to put it in place but I 've had 26 birds on the place . |
| 12 | By 1985 Astra said it had found out why , and that the problem would not affect people . |
| 13 | Yorkshire Water has calculated that at the busiest time August Bank Holiday it could have 50,000 people using it . |
| 14 | Motorola Inc is expanding on both sides of the Pacific : it is now fitting out its built but so far unused chip plant in Chandler , Arizona and will hire 700 people to staff it , and it will build a design centre in Sendai , northern Japan , to strengthen its design of chips in Japan ; Nippon Motorola Ltd said it will invest $44.5m in the centre , due to be finished around 1995 , and most of the products designed in the centre will be sold in the domestic Japanese market . |
| 15 | Then Trevino 's 1972 success made it back-to-back Opens for the Mexican-American . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the 1980 Act makes it abundantly clear that , though districts are the development control authorities , they must direct their decisions to the implementation of the structure plan for their area . |
| 17 | In 1971 Thomson found it necessary to reduce publication from weekly to monthly . |
| 18 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 19 | He told the court at Wakefield : ‘ I was grappling with the pit bull for about 10 minutes to get it off and I also got bitten . ’ |
| 20 | Nine hundred and sixty seven words that takes about five or six minutes to read it if I can read it in this light . |
| 21 | I went up there from school six times to see it . |
| 22 | The rate has been reduced from its previous level of 9.75% in accordance with an undertaking made in the 1991 Budget to keep it broadly in line with mortgage rates . |
| 23 | So you know , nothing might come of that but if it does erm I would be very keen to actually er the , the plan was to second a member of C S M T for six months to do it , and I would be very keen to do it I must admit . |
| 24 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 25 | The Creda 17221 Micron outpaces it , but can not match the Logic 's capacious belly . |
| 26 | All EC states would be given three years to introduce the necessary legislation except for the UK , which had strongly opposed the proposal and was given 10 years to implement it [ see also p. 38658 for UK option to withdraw from social policy aspects of European Union ] . |
| 27 | In Shanghai at the Teachers ' University , new regulations issued on 10 November made it obligatory for students to do physical exercises before classes . |
| 28 | Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now . |
| 29 | A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin , and four to six people to carry it . |
| 30 | But as the cockboat went aground on the sandy beach and the six men heaved it above the high-water mark , Harry saw that Sam was not with them , and by the expressions on their faces , he knew that something was wrong . |