Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
| 2 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 3 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 4 | In poetry it found its perfect fulfilment ; already , his vocation was being felt . |
| 5 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |
| 6 | But it was the idea of ‘ the garden in the wood ’ which really fired Lady Amory 's imagination ; to this day it remains her favourite part of the garden . |
| 7 | One theatre management which gave concessionary tickets , for instance , had never thought about the problems it caused its older customers by refusing advance booking and forcing them to queue for standby tickets . |
| 8 | Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics . |
| 9 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 10 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
| 11 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 12 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 13 | Gustavo Gutierrez has stressed the importance of this remark for Latin America , adding : ‘ The preference , the predilection ( not exclusive , let's be clear ) for the poor is not opposed in the mind of the Pope to his universal mission ; on the contrary it makes his universal mission quite concrete ’ ( Alberigo and Jossua , pp. 239 , 240 ) . |
| 14 | To local residents of the outer city it remains their best form of protection against rapid change . |
| 15 | There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts . |
| 16 | IBM is using STM to study the surface of silicon , gold and thin layers of oxides in an attempt to learn more about the way it effects their electrical properties . |
| 17 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
| 18 | Thus Radio 4 's long-running soap opera The Archers was born and this year it celebrates its 40th birthday . |
| 19 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 20 | It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered . |
| 21 | Like most of the lakes of Switzerland it has its own character . |
| 22 | But on the eastern margin it keeps its own counsel : instead of heading out to sea to follow the line of the Easter Island Ridge , this Pacific Ocean boundary stretches ( with only three minor hiccups ) directly down the American coasts , from Attu Island in the Aleutians to Diego Ramirez Island off Cape Horn . |
| 23 | Digital Equipment Corp will be trailing far behind IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co by the time it gets its Alpha-based hardware out , according to Butler Bloor Ltd 's Open Systems report , published this week . |
| 24 | If an EM field is applied to the cell , the cell 's EM activity becomes aligned to the nature of the applied field and at the same time it re-arranges its intracellular components accordingly . |
| 25 | At the same time she doubted that Silas was the type of man who would stand listening outside a doorway , and although she recalled his firm declaration of having no intention of marrying Doreen it gave her small comfort . |
| 26 | As the Moon orbits around the Earth it exerts its gravitational pull as illustrated : |