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

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1 On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa .
2 The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres .
3 Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians .
4 Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer .
5 Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images .
6 For example , one of the attractions in my area , Balmoral Castle , as a couple of exhibitions which are open to the public for part of the year , now the entrance fees for that actually goes to charity so it benefits other people apart from the tourists themselves .
7 So , at the top there it says conventional memory , two seven four O four eight , of two seven four O four eight .
8 Hence each enforcement authority ( i.e. local trading standards department ) now has power to serve a ‘ suspension notice ’ upon a trader where it has reasonable grounds to think legal safety requirements have been infringed , section 14 .
9 Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there .
10 If this is the case then it raises serious concerns about the commitment of the EC to reducing the range of economic prosperity within its boundaries .
11 As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies .
12 The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart .
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 If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part .
16 So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring .
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