Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adv] [det] [noun] " 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 | Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I make the stake-out it takes too little time . |
| 5 | The film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine was a huge success , but for some people it left too many questions unanswered . |
| 6 | Of course it means that many times that tonnage of run-of-mine material was raised and processed . |
| 7 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 8 | Last Autumn it gave up all pretence of continuing on in the business and sold off its Personal Mainframe hardware interests to clone newcomer Digital Systems Research ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 9 | AFTER reading the articles on dyslexic children it brought back this time last year when my son Steven , who is dyslexic , was trying for an engineering apprenticeship . |
| 10 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
| 11 | ( Compare X , Y and Z in fig i ) — In some the progression is very rapid while in others it takes very many years and may only be triggered by an acute personal crisis such as retirement or when the children leave home ( the " empty nest syndrome " ) . |
| 12 | I 've no idea it depends how much water they use . |
| 13 | In fact it allowed very few off-worlders on to the planet , and they were mostly technicians with special skills — who were required to live restricted lives in special compounds , hardly ever mixing with the local population . |