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

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1 Put it where it gets as much sun as possible .
2 Price £193.88 including VAT ( although it adds helpfully that VAT is fully reclaimable by health authorities ) .
3 Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications .
4 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 ) .
5 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 .
6 Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage .
7 The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally .
8 The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances .
9 ONE problem with a high-tech war is that it requires so much technology .
10 Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power .
11 The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone .
12 The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Unfortunately the orientation of the palazzo means that it gets very little sun to set it off ; this together with the dark paint and stonework , means it looks rather sombre .
16 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 .
17 Unfortunately for IBM , its problems are not simply that it has too many staff .
18 I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic .
19 But in fact the whole fluffy , vapid confection is so resolutely unmemorable that it gives as much offence as a toothless poodle .
20 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 .
21 We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused .
22 Note the point that it covers only those parts which are readily visible and accessible .
23 Over £200 was raised and head teacher Dr. Alan Leech said that it portrayed yet another aspect of music at Bohunt .
24 The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency .
25 He was tall and reasonably good-looking , with a slightly sad , very reserved look which could melt into a charming smile , so intimate that it unbalanced almost any girl he cared to direct it at .
26 Duck and Frog search for their friends and it takes quite some time to find them all .
27 Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them .
28 Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good .
29 These three islands share a history that reads like a pirate novel and it takes very little research to find documented facts detailing pirate treasure and shipwrecks galore .
30 The dis-ease that people feel when things begin to go wrong , and their ability to stay calm and competent frays at the edges , is itself a feeling that OK people do not have , and it becomes yet another cause for concern and an occasion for self-doubt .
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