Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 2 | When you create a document in Ventura it has an underlying frame . |
| 3 | When the pressure is expressed in atmospheres , the value of R is given by In SI units it becomes The general gas law for one mole of gas can now be expressed as where is the volume of one mole of the gas . |
| 4 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 5 | In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also . |
| 6 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 7 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
| 8 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 9 | Successful living in Los Angeles requires controlling the environment , whereas in Bali it requires a total surrender . |
| 10 | This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory . |
| 11 | In other words it handles the conceptual processes . |
| 12 | In other words it represents the square root of 2 — the problem that so worried the Greeks because its answer was an irrational number ! |
| 13 | It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence . |
| 14 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 15 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
| 16 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 17 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 18 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 19 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |
| 20 | For if it relates to the BBC per se then it conveniently overlooks its seedier and more questionable aspects , whilst if it relates to some imaginary institution it ignores the real pressures on institutions which make them somehow less ideal than one would desire . |
| 21 | Emergency admissions develop a momentum of their own , not least because in some areas it seems the only way to get a place in a local authority residential home ( Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 22 | Commentators in the Western press observed that the elections were characterized by " widespread apathy " , and one ZANU-PF official reportedly conceded that " especially in the urban areas it seems the working class has lost faith in ZANU-PF to look after their interests " . |
| 23 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 24 | For a small village it has an absolute wealth of historic treasures and one most impressive modern innovation — Alvingham Pottery . |
| 25 | Despite the vulgar character of such poetry it conceals a genuine sadness . |
| 26 | Because of the translucent water and the high , rocky , almost petrified appearance of the cave 's formation it added a mysterious uniqueness to the beautiful strains of the music . |
| 27 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
| 28 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
| 29 | But in Washington it caused a nasty row . |
| 30 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |