Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | But in Washington it caused a nasty row . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | For a considerable distance it is now followed by a main road ( A422 and B4525 ) , but near Culworth it becomes a narrow lane , running through almost deserted country , past Adstone Lodge and Foxley to Cold Higham . |
| 37 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 38 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 39 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 40 | But since passion does not come in bottles it seems a vain hope . |
| 41 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 42 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 43 | Like Scotland it has a traditional reliance on textiles and alcoholic drinks — 20,000 people work in Beaujolais production alone . |
| 44 | Possibly even in the most traditional area of slave cultivation , sugar , the mechanisation of sugar-mills from the mid-century diminished the need for labour in processing the product , though in booming sugar economies like Cuba it produced a corresponding rise in the demand for field-hands . |
| 45 | But in the desert it gives a strange moaning sound , low and sensual , accompanied by the singing of the sand as it skates across itself . |
| 46 | Once the system has accepted an in put from the tablet it gives an acknowledging Beep from the computer and prompts for the next command to execute the function . |
| 47 | In winter it makes an early morning crossing , returning in the late afternoon and allowing some six hours 2. shore in Porto Santo . |
| 48 | When a neurotransmitter fits into its receptor it triggers the chemical response that changes the membrane potential and passes the signal from one neurone to another . |
| 49 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 50 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 51 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 52 | Fisher wrote a kind letter to Ramsey , who found that in the circumstances it showed a generous spirit . |
| 53 | Powered by a souped-up , 80 bhp Mini engine it has a tough steel frame and fibreglass bodywork . |
| 54 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 55 | If this was Richard 's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last . |
| 56 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 57 | On its Edinburgh site it holds a living collection of around 30000 accessions ; a Herbarium containing some 2 million dried plant specimens from a world-wide range ; and a research library holding 75000 volumes books and over 1500 current scientific periodical titles . |
| 58 | For Delaunay it was the interaction of colours which produced a sense of form and space in a picture , whereas for Léger it meant the simultaneous presence in a painting of the three pictorial elements of line , form and colour , all used in a system of deliberate contrasts . |
| 59 | For Christians it defined a national identity from which they were excluded . |
| 60 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |