Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel .
2 None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear .
3 Thus it involves massive amounts of reporting , in person or on paper , to keep everyone up to date :
4 Whether or not it has any prospect of success this court is in no position to determine , but while it remains alive we do not consider that the judgment of this court can be described as final within the meaning of rule 2 ( a ) .
5 Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money .
6 Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management .
7 Did n't it have this sort of political pattern to it
8 Paradoxically it provides this sense of freedom to choose , but the process of play activity is about limiting the choices .
9 Such an approach is not at all for the sake of establishing some banal historical continuity , or of demonstrating a universal homogeneity of narrative ; rather it allows precise tracings of specific historical shifts and distinct orderings of narrative and the novelistic , generic responses to historical , technological and social re-orderings .
10 and then it winds another piece of paper in and starts printing again
11 Instead it deprives older people of social status and role , undermines their self-esteem , and denies them a fair share of social resources .
12 Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million .
13 Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m .
14 Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m .
15 It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast .
16 In May UNITA not only recaptured Mavinga but also switched the focus of its campaign to its military base in Béu in the north-west near the border with Zaïre , from where it received major airlifts of US supplies and equipment .
17 8 The total timing appears to reflect the use of the shorter versions of those movements where such exist , adding up to 30 ‘ bonnes minutes ’ , i.e. it includes two timings of ‘ bonnes minutes ’ and one of ‘ petites minutes , matching well the inscription ‘ une bonne demi-heure ’ ( See also note 12 . )
18 the home population is the de facto population , i.e. it includes armed forces of any nationality stationed in the UK and merchant seamen in home waters .
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