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

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1 It is grown in tiny quantities in the northern Rhone at Condrieu and Chateau-Grillet , where it makes utterly delicious whites at £15 — £30 a bottle .
2 The image sometimes shows incomplete leaves , base and tip present with a segment missing , or it picks up isolated points which do not correspond to subject material .
3 The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north .
4 Although it gives only basic descriptions of our services , there is more information on the Royal Mail Guide and Royal Mail International Guide which you can consult at post office counters .
5 An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 .
6 This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 .
7 This finding may be interpreted as supporting the view expressed above that the inner-city vernacular , although it shows more complex patterns , is more amenable to description in terms of linguistic rules than outer-city speech .
8 One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land .
9 The emperor attended the première , and seemed to approve , despite his observation that it had too many notes ( ‘ Just as many as are necessary , your majesty , ’ Mozart is said to have replied ) .
10 The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant .
11 Moreover , the global index of either victimization or recorded offences can be misleading , in that it conceals quite large variations in the trends for specific offences .
12 An advantage of an analysis which accommodates phonetically detailed information is that it allows phonetically detailed generalizations , some of which are of considerable theoretical interest .
13 Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States .
14 Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution .
15 In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country .
16 As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity .
17 Its supporters make the point that it breaks down rigid hierarchies and allows for greater participation in the decision-making process .
18 Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed .
19 As eating-time continues , the body sends out more and more satiety signals , but it is estimated that it takes about twenty minutes for a meal to have its full effect in filling our stomachs and sending out all the other physical signals of sufficiency .
20 I , I , I would suggest that it takes about three months to work out what your best arrangement of categories is going to be .
21 Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words .
22 Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south .
23 Once the new analogy is recognized , it can be compared with the old and shown to be more adequate , in that it dissipates previously insoluble problems .
24 Vienna , Virginia-based America Online Inc said that it added over 25,000 subscribers to its bulletin board service in the last month : Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has plans for the company .
25 That it has also close ties with comparative religion scarcely needs to be said .
26 But a corporation created by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament is subject to the rule that it has only such powers as are expressly conferred , or are necessarily or reasonably incident to the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is established .
27 I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic .
28 The advantage of this formal approach to organisations is that it shows how organisational objectives can be reached by :
29 An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman .
30 The term ‘ software ’ must be very broadly defined , so that it includes almost all aspects of a project from its specification and design through to the delivery of executable code .
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