Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 2 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 3 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 4 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 5 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 6 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 7 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 8 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 9 | Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images . |
| 10 | Broomfield and Alexander , a seven partner firm based in south Wales , had been the club 's auditors for many years when it hit financial difficulties . |
| 11 | For example , one of the attractions in my area , Balmoral Castle , as a couple of exhibitions which are open to the public for part of the year , now the entrance fees for that actually goes to charity so it benefits other people apart from the tourists themselves . |
| 12 | If it is necessary to draw a clear distinction between social problems and sociological questions then it follows that sociology must maintain a critical distance from the ideas — whether dominant or otherwise — of any particular society at any particular time . |
| 13 | So , at the top there it says conventional memory , two seven four O four eight , of two seven four O four eight . |
| 14 | Hence each enforcement authority ( i.e. local trading standards department ) now has power to serve a ‘ suspension notice ’ upon a trader where it has reasonable grounds to think legal safety requirements have been infringed , section 14 . |
| 15 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 16 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
| 17 | Although this regulation of tortious liability is not of itself a contractual issue , there are some situations where it has great importance for business contracts , for instance in the area of pre-contract negotiations . |
| 18 | Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there . |
| 19 | Secondly , the Director of Social Services has got the authority to waive any of these charges where it causes financial hardship and the whole mechanism has been put in place to inform people that this waiving waiver process is in place and to allow them to apply for waiving of those charges . |
| 20 | If this is the case then it raises serious concerns about the commitment of the EC to reducing the range of economic prosperity within its boundaries . |
| 21 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |
| 22 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 23 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 24 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 25 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 26 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |
| 27 | So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring . |
| 28 | Upon closure of the branch line in 1957 , the B.E.M.U. went home to Derby where it became departmental test unit ‘ Gemini ’ , before eventually being acquired by the West Yorkshire Transport Museum . |