Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not .
2 To Manville it meant only one thing .
3 Even when it is in session it devotes relatively little energy to the serious scrutiny and debate of government policy .
4 Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere .
5 It could oversee the substantial new academic development but it could not determine the shape of the sector of higher education it performed only one part in developing .
6 But even without the figures it takes very little imagination to see why this council must not put off any longer the construction and commissioning of the southern fire station .
7 When I make the stake-out it takes too little time .
8 As the war approached , her father , Colonel Joshua Murchison had sent her to live with his sister in California It had almost broken Yanto 's heart at the time .
9 If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise .
10 Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc said it will shortly start shipping the Cray S-MP system , the first in a planned series of Sparc-based servers from Cray Research Superservers Inc , the subsidiary it formed around the Floating Point Systems Inc assets it acquired late last year .
11 Either way it allows rather better continuity of instruction — frequently advocated by user education librarians .
12 What is more , because this youthful community has little contact with the older generation it has increasingly little reason to see why it should defer to the older generation 's judgement .
13 Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled .
14 However since this study was not designed to provide a detailed study of the performance of non-traditional students it provides only limited analysis of their relative achievements .
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