Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As such it presents an authentic record of early aviation in the local area , and although of limited general interest , it fills a gap in the country-wide documentation of aviation history in the UK . |
2 | In March 1991 it won an important case when the strongly integrationist European Court of Justice condoned Brussels ' ability to rule on public service monopolies without the approval of EC member states , despite the fact that the Court 's principal legal adviser , the Advocate General , called for the Commission 's powers to be restricted under Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome . |
3 | The basis of all these systems is the alphabetical filing of names of either persons , places , things or subjects , and even when the system is numerical it requires an alphabetical index . |
4 | The aircraft was on charter to fly passengers from Norwich to Gothenburg , Sweden , and during the morning of 12 Dec 73 it made an uneventful positioning flight from Oslo , Norway , to Norwich where it landed at 1228 hours . |
5 | I am sure it adds an extra frisson , but I ca n't say I 'm keen to try it . |
6 | There 's mi minus four people coming to the party tonight , they 're all crackers , okay but it works , it 's very useful it solves an awful lot of problems like you know getting rockets to the moon and things like that that we could n't do otherwise . |
7 | In some areas the agency model holds good ( for example , county councils serve as agents of the Department of Transport in constructing motorways and trunk roads ) but in general it conveys an exaggerated picture of central domination , particularly as there is a great deal of evidence of continued local discretion in service provision . |
8 | Between 1971 and 1980 local authority and new town completions averaged 143,000 dwellings a year , but in 1981 the figure plummeted to 68,000 and in 1987 it reached an all-time low of 22,000 . |
9 | By the early part of the 18th century , a forge occupied the site , and by 1736 it had an annual output of around 60 tons . |
10 | This exchanger is in some respects a ‘ mirror image ’ of Na + /H + exchange in that it possesses an intracellular modifier site which is sensitive to hydroxyl ( OH - ) ions and thus , although reglatively inactive at baseline pH i , is activated by intracellular alkalosis . |
11 | It differed from the budget proposed by the President in that it included an additional $4,400 million for domestic spending on education , health and social service programmes at the expense of space and scientific programmes . |
12 | Viewdata — this is somewhat similar to teletext in that it provides an up-to-date reference source on commercial matters . |
13 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |