Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offices It works in this fashion : If you were working in a suite of offices , you might , if you were so inclined , have one office dedicated to word processing , one for drawing , another for accounting and so on . |
| 2 | The processor can interpret several elements of the picture at once ; in other words it acts in parallel fashion . |
| 3 | He was making a careful examination of the bowls and plates it contained in dusty confusion . |
| 4 | Silphium laciniatum , from the prairies of the central and southeastern states of America , is another six-footer , sometimes more , whose large , deeply divided foliage is far more ornamental than the yellow daisies it produces in late summer . |
| 5 | Another important field that will not receive the attention it deserves in this book is the whole area of music . |
| 6 | Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty . |
| 7 | It bears the meaning it has in ordinary language : Lawrence & Pomroy ( 1971 ) 57 Cr App R 64 . |
| 8 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 9 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 10 | The role it plays in normal memory may therefore have been underestimated . |
| 11 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 12 | The doormouse appears at night but the tell tale neat round hole it leaves in hazel nut shells , shows where it has been . |
| 13 | Although its development from infancy to early adulthood has been much examined , the part it plays in later life has been largely neglected . |
| 14 | So what I want you to do is to follow these little chips er dimples here , they 're on this stone there 're a few on that but not on here , so that bit it goes in that direction . |
| 15 | Because of the other legislative provisions dealing with repayment of various taxes it seems in any event that the number of cases where any principle of common law would need to be relied on is likely to be small . |
| 16 | The New York-based Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp plans to invest up to $300m in the development of local Hungarian telephone companies , installing up to 200,000 new telephone lines , and it also plans to invest the money it raised in long-distance telephone ventures . |
| 17 | In the wild it grows in shady woodland so will do well under shrubs in cultivation . |
| 18 | Perhaps , too , the darker minds , full of rancour and disharmony , anger , lust , egotism , greed and intense attachment to the things of this world , takes the hell it experienced in physical life into its own world of mental hell when deprived of the physical form . |
| 19 | However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time . |
| 20 | Part of my thesis rests upon the belief that if deixis operates in a different way in lyric poetry from the way it does in non-literary discourse , it does so in degree , not in kind . |
| 21 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 22 | It may be helpful at this point to illustrate the function of marked theme by discussing some examples of the way it works in one language , English . |
| 23 | The office of collector attracted that type of candidate , and throughout the century it remained in high demand , occasioning many notable political battles in the counties . |
| 24 | Cos I 've the bill for the hotel it came in one lump as two hundred and four pound . |
| 25 | ‘ Lessened inequalities ’ ( possibilities 1–6 ) is a type of social democratic perspective of retaining the market but reducing the income inequalities it generates in good measure . |