Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the female work force it represents nearly seven percent and all at once . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 4 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |
| 5 | When added to the usual treatments for this condition it cleared up persistent ulcers in 40 out of 60 cases . |
| 6 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 7 | Even when it is in session it devotes relatively little energy to the serious scrutiny and debate of government policy . |
| 8 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 9 | With losses amounting to £71m ( $137m ) in Italian life insurance , Guardian Royal Exchange , a British insurance company , is shedding two of three Italian subsidiaries it bought nearly two years ago . |
| 10 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 11 | At the moment it costs around one pound twenty a pint . |
| 12 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 13 | Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere . |
| 14 | The following day it froze as icy winds swept the country . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 19 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 20 | When I make the stake-out it takes too little time . |
| 21 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 22 | In material terms it gave only modest returns . |
| 23 | The film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine was a huge success , but for some people it left too many questions unanswered . |
| 24 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 27 | With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well . |
| 28 | Of course it means that many times that tonnage of run-of-mine material was raised and processed . |
| 29 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 30 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |