Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 2 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 3 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 4 | As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals . |
| 5 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 6 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 7 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 8 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 10 | For the language teacher it provides powerful clues concerning the causes of the sensation of floundering in conversation to which we referred earlier . |
| 11 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 12 | I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss . |
| 13 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 14 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 15 | Every day it serves identical food to 19 million people and swallows $1.3 million profits . |
| 16 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 17 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 18 | Quorum , which says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple Computer Inc , which held up financing and staffing , will position the product as a Mac application adaptor rather than an emulator . |
| 19 | Quorum , who says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple ( UX No 393 ) which held up financing and staffing , will position Equal as a Mac application adapter rather than an emulator . |
| 20 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 21 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 22 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Based on Berkeley BSD4.3 Unix and built on Carnegie Mellon Mach 3.0 foundation it supports all Macs from Powerbooks up and runs off-the-shelf Apple applications whilst simultaneously running Unix programs . |
| 24 | From a distance it resembled some piece of modern sculpture : disjointed planes , random angles , a lot of holes . |
| 25 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |
| 26 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 27 | It is essential , therefore , that when the water industry prospectus is published next month it provides comprehensive information on all 10 authorities . |
| 28 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 29 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 30 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |