Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 3 | In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] . |
| 4 | But to the Hebrew mind it covered all human relationships . |
| 5 | While it served to reconcile warring elements in the Conservative party , in the other parties it prevented any such reconciliation . |
| 6 | Oh well , in the last second it went another ten metres . |
| 7 | Last second it went another ten metres . |
| 8 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 9 | And the optical type it contains this photoelectric cell which triggers alarm when the beam is disturbed by smoke particles . |
| 10 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |
| 11 | When the Iranian government abrogated its CENTO membership it branded any neighbouring country that remained in CENTO as a lackey of imperialism and as hostile to Iran . |
| 12 | Though this was a less controversial aim it had less emotional kick . |
| 13 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 14 | Around fifteen thousand spectators came to watch the thrills and spills … for the organisers it proved another successful Classic . |
| 15 | In fairness , too , one has to admit that Marxism is not monolithic , and that in literary and cultural criticism it provides many possible positions . |
| 16 | Problem solving : Given some image coordinates I , the robot looks up in R for the pair ( I' , J' ) with I' closest to I. It moves all joint angles to J' . |
| 17 | On its pharyngeal surface it bears lateral sclerotized pieces known as tormae . |
| 18 | In the following month it distributed two million leaflets on the Munich crisis , following this up in December with ten million leaflets on the Spanish Civil War . |
| 19 | Erm , if you turn over the page it says seventy eight percent of female claims have been on the diagnosis of cancer , and it gives you a breakdown of the condition and the age when diagnosed . |
| 20 | In this respect it resembled another favourite hotel of mine , the Quirinale in Rome , where I like to stay in the room where Ronald Firbank died . |
| 21 | The second number of the 1993 volume , which has now gone to print , contains an extra selection of book reviews , and as well as the usual listing it has several other items that will be of interest to anyone who wants to keep up to date with what is being published . |
| 22 | Where the treaty language indicates the parties ' intention that the Canal shall have international usage , that the regime shall be permanent , and is to further the global need for open communication routes it seems that third party rights must be recognised . |
| 23 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 24 | ‘ Caledonian Mining remains interested in Monktonhall , but Macleod is no longer prepared to talk to the board in case it provokes further misleading comments to the press , ’ the source said . |
| 25 | It will be important for marketers to assess the experience of customers with their particular products in case it possesses some unsatisfactory performance or operating characteristic to which customers will eventually build up resistance . |
| 26 | At the undergraduate level it offers two ordinary half courses in European Community Law , and four honours courses available to LLB honours students . |
| 27 | However , since the notion of a continuum persists in the literature it warrants some further discussion . |
| 28 | In its early phase it reflected broad Catholic opinion which wanted acceptance as full citizens of the North and had some liberal Unionist support . |
| 29 | but for us lot it made four nice medium size ones |
| 30 | Halliday 's analysis is revealing in the way it relates precise linguistic observation to literary effect . |