Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | From the end of the road at Bracorina , a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis . |
2 | There is still a large space where it received a direct hit at the end of the war , destroying much of the city archives . |
3 | Hurricane Iniki headed 100 miles north for the main Hawaiian resort of Oahu — where it killed a 15-year-old boy — before it suddenly switched course for Kauai . |
4 | Texas is doing increasing and profitable business where it keeps a certain percentage of its dynamic memory chip production uncommitted until the last 90 days prior to release in order to fulfill the requirements of customers that are ‘ sole source ’ commitments and ‘ fab-less IC companies ’ . |
5 | Another route was to start at Selby Road , the Croydon boundary and proceed along Croydon Road and Green Lane , Penge where it met a small enclave of Beckenham before the Lewisham Boundary . |
6 | This had opened in Fulham in 1945 , but soon moved into the buildings formerly occupied by St John 's Wood Art Schools where it became a vital centre for those interested in French art . |
7 | The unpaired 5'T(-1) lies in the major groove of the next duplex , where it makes a Hoogsteen base pair with A17 to form a T.A.T triple helical interaction . |
8 | Chief executive Pierre Bonelli said that as a result , the company was able to concentrate on vertical markets , where it holds a leading position , such as defence . |
9 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |
10 | If he does not , you may even wish to suggest one of them yourself , in circumstances where it seems a lesser evil than a final warning or dismissal . |
11 | They either indicate where the grave is without strings attached , or it becomes a shoddy exercise which should be refused . |
12 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
13 | The first , which is currently out of favour , although it made a brief reappearance in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent , is the literal approach . |
14 | In the case of the APT , the approach is diametrically opposite in that although it derives a causal relationship , it does not identify the determinant factors . |
15 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
16 | The policy , which aimed to reserve 27 per cent of public-sector jobs for members of the lower castes , provoked caste-based violence across northern India ( although it received a large measure of support in the predominantly low-caste south ) and provided an issue around which Singh 's opponents within the Janata Dal could coalesce . |
17 | She had looked everywhere else and , although it seemed a long shot , she might as well look in there . |
18 | The SSP 's policy was close to that of the Socialist League although it had a strong pacifist section and remained hostile to Communism . |
19 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
20 | In India , the Congress Party , although it had a socialist wing , was to a large extent a middle-class independence movement ; and the partition of India after the ending of British rule created in Pakistan a state dominated by landowners and the military , and in India a liberal democratic regime in which there was a mixture of socialist and capitalist elements . |
21 | ‘ Here we are — a testament to the work of Woodline Design since its inception , although it had a different title then . ’ |
22 | Although it remains a popular option , for many organisations it is not without problems . |
23 | The conception of the international economy held by world-system theories is , in my view , less effective , although it gives a forceful account of contemporary changes in comparison with earlier periods . |
24 | Although it contains a considerable depth of sediment shed from the adjacent mountain ranges its floor still has a maximum elevation of just 74 m below sea level . |
25 | It was at this point that Laba had effected the only feasible escape procedure for such circumstances , although it required a good deal of luck . |
26 | On June 11 the Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting the desecration of the flag ; a proposed constitutional amendment — supported by Bush — to prohibit such activities failed to generate sufficient support in Congress , although it obtained a simple majority in each chamber [ see pp. 37241 ; 37525 ] . |
27 | It sounds rather weird , and so in a way it is , although it finds a natural expression in terms of the quantum mechanical formalism . |
28 | Although it seems a good opportunity , it is no long term basis for a good relationship with our paymasters . |
29 | If such a strategy were to be an effective one — and the jury is still out , although it seems a promising idea — then reintegrative shaming would be a valuable method of reforming offenders , which ( as we have said ) is a valid reductivist aim to be pursued within a morally defensible penal system . |
30 | Inside the jacket there 's a mesh liner made from a dry mesh ripstop nylon which although it held a little perspiration , dried quickly . |