Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 2 | There is a host of community-related rural organisations in Scotland , many of which are purely social , or purely functional , some of which have broad ( non-party ) political aims , ( very few it seems make any attempt at all to combine social and political aspects even in a semi-structured way ) , but there has been little attempt to make learning connections between the assortment of community groups . |
| 3 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 4 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure it has had dynamic effects in the woodworking economy , but it is hard to forget , and I have relished getting to know many of the featured woodworkers . |
| 6 | All it takes to give this work a decent hearing is five intelligent and compatible singers , a good deal of rehearsal time , sensitive discussion about the best way of tackling the considerable demands both of the words and the huge span of music , and some recording equipment . |
| 7 | In other words , for an action to be deviant it has to cause some form of critical reaction and disapproval from others in the particular society . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the prices objective became more important in most economies , and by the middle of the 1970s it had replaced full employment as the principal objective of the UK government . |
| 9 | The latter it concluded brought new risks into the MIPS equation . |
| 10 | When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations . |
| 11 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 12 | By the year 2000 it hopes to have similar centres in its six other urban hubs — Edinburgh , Liverpool , Manchester , Leeds , Birmingham and Cardiff . |
| 13 | First it tries to reconcile central funding and government accountability for national standards of service with the need for local autonomy to meet local need . |
| 14 | Together with the Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz ( RJGG , Juvenile Court Act ) of 1923 it tended to replace punitive measures with pedagogical , child-oriented principles and to set standards for national youth departments in every part of the country ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 , p. 99 ) . |
| 15 | Since 1961 it has offered preparatory courses and annual examinations for a Certificate in Church Music . |
| 16 | erm The trouble about the tropical forest is this tremendous variation from place to place , the conditions are totally different in different places , although the forest is similar in that it 's got large numbers of different species of trees and flora and fauna . |
| 17 | Of the diagnostic statistics reported for ( 2.2 ) , the RESET test statistic is of particular importance in that it fails to provide any evidence that relevant higher moments of the explanatory variables have been omitted from the equation . |
| 18 | USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side . |
| 19 | However , the less able the front end is to specify the full characteristics of the phonetic input , the more difficult it becomes to distinguish lexical hypotheses . |
| 20 | This belief is firmly backed up by the experience of the West German government when in 1965 it attempted to bring criminal charges against nine Chemie Grunenthal executives who were indicted for causing bodily harm and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the drug thalidomide . |
| 21 | By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter . |