Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases it meant helping families who had applied for their children to be taken into care to find an alternative solution . |
| 2 | Quite a few days it had taken Madeleine , this sewing . |
| 3 | Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat . |
| 4 | I 've bitten my tongue so many times it 's got holes in it ’ |
| 5 | In all cases it seeks to pronounce value judgements , an exercise shunned by art history . ’ |
| 6 | Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year . |
| 7 | Within twelve months it had exceeded expectations and become a £40million growth product . |
| 8 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 9 | If there are any problems it wishes to recover damages from the Vendor . |
| 10 | Two thirds of the 74,000 households it covers take part in its green box scheme . |
| 11 | Under s178 , which applies to accounting periods ending on or before 30 September 1993 , when Target leaves the vendor 's capital gains tax group it will be treated as having disposed of and reacquired any assets it has acquired intra-group within the six-year period preceding the date it leaves the group . |
| 12 | In utterly mundane terms it means getting polluters to do what they want them to do . |
| 13 | On the doctrine of the last things it seemed to imply universalism . |