Example sentences of "it [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had it formed such an important part of the terrorists ' plan ? |
| 2 | No company can call itself truly global if it neglects such potential customers . |
| 3 | ‘ It can be a very lonely job , for both man and dog , which is why it involves such a special relationship , ’ Keith explained . |
| 4 | OK they 're quite happy for their girls to be academic but daring to be more positive about being ordered outside that because it involves such a lot , having control over your own body , again you know , abortion raises its hairy head again . |
| 5 | It involves such a lot . |
| 6 | Instead it involves such things as finding new uses for old products or showing how solutions considered impracticable can be made to work . |
| 7 | It became such a tame pet afterwards that she could never persuade it to play dead again , even if she grabbed it as though she were a predator . |
| 8 | It became such a success that further developments were needed . |
| 9 | Many people are attracted to Yugoslavia because it offers such great value for money . |
| 10 | A hotel is only a house multiplied up which is one of the reasons why it offers such a good opportunity to demonstrate to people at large what can be achieved . |
| 11 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 12 | On this night the fire-watchers heard the nose-cone come down , it made such a crash , thought it was an incendiary , and spent the rest of the night searching for it , in vain . |
| 13 | It made such stellar acquisitions as the Packard collection of Japanese art , twenty-five Chinese paintings from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties , a Bacchic group by Bernini , Monet 's ‘ Terrace at Sainte-Adresse ’ , the Robert Lehman collection , David 's ‘ Portrait of Lavoisier and his wife ’ , the Temple of Dendur , Canova 's ‘ Perseus ’ and Velasquez 's ‘ Juan de Pareja ’ ( still the most important single paintings acquisition since its purchase in 1970 ) and made the museum more accessible and inviting to the public . |
| 14 | It met such opposition in Jamaica that Wilberforce was persuaded to withdraw it and settle for registries by colonial legislation . |
| 15 | The United States filed a brief denying the supposedly exclusive character of the Convention , but urging that principles of comity should be applied to determine whether an order should be made under the Federal Rules when the foreign country had unequivocally stated that it regarded such an order as a violation of its sovereignty ; and argued that a District Court could in any event not order the taking of depositions in Germany without compliance with the procedures prescribed by the German authorities ( in this case , those of the Convention ) . |
| 16 | When the Cork-based company , Raybestos of Ringaskiddy , was found to be dumping asbestos illegally in the late 1970s , it created such local uproar and intractable opposition that the company had to leave . |
| 17 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 18 | The board says it needs such a store in any case in the 1990s because there may be a shortage of reprocessing capacity at British Nuclear Fuels ' Sellafield plant ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 289 ) . |
| 19 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 20 | It covers such activities as parachuting , mountaineering , hang-gliding , sub-aqua diving and motor racing . |
| 21 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 22 | The verb to love is difficult to define as it covers such a range of emotion . |
| 23 | Because it covers such a wide area . |
| 24 | though that it looks such a flimsy structure , that you know its gon na be shored up with walls . |
| 25 | The element of performance referred to under Dramatic playing occurs as part of a participant 's expression but it has such clarity and selectivity of communication to other participants that it acquires the ‘ adjectival ’ , descriptive characteristic of performing . |
| 26 | How could it not , when it has such a huge unfair advantage in the meiotic lottery ? |
| 27 | Strictly speaking , this is not solely a funboard technique but I include it here as it has such close links with the waterstart . |
| 28 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 29 | But he never explains how such a belief about bones could possibly be held by a dog since it has such obvious linguistic implications particularly as grounds for possession of the human concept . |
| 30 | ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ? |