Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 32 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 33 | Cumulus Technology Inc , Palo Alto , California will announce Personal Touch , a full-featured Window manager for the Cumulus Alpha Terminal : it enables users to move , resize or select windows and other on-screen features by point and click or through hot key commands ; OSF/Motif or MS-DOS-style windows can be selected at set-up and it provides start-up dialogues , macro dialogues and exit dialogues to open and close applications ; open applications can be displayed as full-screen , stacked or tiled windows depending upon user requirement , Cumulus says . |
| 34 | He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it . |
| 35 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 36 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 37 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 38 | I and I daresay others round this table , have experience of other counties who 've adopted that approach , or other panels who 've adopted that approach and it creates endless problems and endless appeals debating what is a windfall and what should be in the plan and what should be not . |
| 39 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 40 | And desire is starving and its belly grows huge but its lungs continue to process air and it lights small fires everywhere . |
| 41 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 42 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 43 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 44 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
| 45 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 46 | Love is the largest region of the transcendent world and it has many forms — there can be love of God , love of nature , and the love of a human being and love of our fellowmen . |
| 47 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 48 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 49 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 50 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 51 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
| 52 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 53 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 54 | The element of performance referred to under Dramatic playing occurs as part of a participant 's expression but it has such clarity and selectivity of communication to other participants that it acquires the ‘ adjectival ’ , descriptive characteristic of performing . |
| 55 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 56 | Water also has a melting point and a boiling point much higher than would be expected from its formula and it becomes more fluid with increasing temperature . |
| 57 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 58 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 59 | Law meant the right ordering of society on earth and it reflected Divine Law . |
| 60 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |