Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , as with the rank-and-file townsmen , the State 's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants . |
| 2 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 3 | Independence allows it to try new parts that others may not be able to play . |
| 4 | Its hard wood helps it resist cold winters , and its thick-skinned grapes are almost impervious to rain , disease and insects . |
| 5 | Anyone who has encountered a skunk will know that before it fires its stinking spray it issues clear warnings of its intentions . |
| 6 | The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved . |
| 7 | SunPro , Sun Microsystems Inc 's software development operation , is bringing in Russian software expertise to help it develop compiler-level products which will improve the performance of applications running on Sparc RISC-based systems . |
| 8 | And as the drama unfolds it reveals complex layers of corruption and influence-peddling . |
| 9 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 10 | Its welcome sign says it has 90,000 inhabitants . |
| 11 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 12 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
| 13 | As it flies along , the enhanced shimmer of water helps it to find new pools . |
| 14 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 15 | Mdf 's smooth surface enables it to accept all types of finishes , from veneers and laminates , to paints and varnishes . |
| 16 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 17 | The Council would consider seeking modifications to its Charter to allow it to delegate added powers . |
| 18 | The dog decides it had better police this family itself , and , next thing you know , it is fastening its jaws on disobedient members of the family , its family . |
| 19 | And mainframe sales still generate enough profit to enable it to do other things . |
| 20 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
| 21 | It 's a triangle entails It has three angles Lesley is Arthur 's mother entails Lesley is female |
| 22 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 23 | When glass shatters it leaves jagged edges . |
| 24 | The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year . |
| 25 | In fact the canopy is deliberately being kept up whatever the weather for ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ , because the company found it has acoustic properties and projects sound out to the audience . |
| 26 | The redemption will be funded using cash from operations and earnings in the quarter ended December 31 1992 and the company says it intends further redemptions of the 10% debentures throughout 1993 — after April 1 , some $427m of the 10% debt will remain outstanding . |
| 27 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 28 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 29 | The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws . |
| 30 | Its articulated design allows it to negotiate sharp curves and it arrived at Brecon in Spring 1986 after its Indian home line closed the year before . |