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

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1 It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born .
2 In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also .
3 Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive .
4 The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater .
5 Successful living in Los Angeles requires controlling the environment , whereas in Bali it requires a total surrender .
6 This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory .
7 It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence .
8 But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree .
9 The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications .
10 After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body .
11 It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits .
12 For if it relates to the BBC per se then it conveniently overlooks its seedier and more questionable aspects , whilst if it relates to some imaginary institution it ignores the real pressures on institutions which make them somehow less ideal than one would desire .
13 In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there .
14 For a small village it has an absolute wealth of historic treasures and one most impressive modern innovation — Alvingham Pottery .
15 Despite the vulgar character of such poetry it conceals a genuine sadness .
16 Because of the translucent water and the high , rocky , almost petrified appearance of the cave 's formation it added a mysterious uniqueness to the beautiful strains of the music .
17 Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do .
18 The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven .
19 Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror .
20 As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi .
21 As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi .
22 In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity .
23 But in the desert it gives a strange moaning sound , low and sensual , accompanied by the singing of the sand as it skates across itself .
24 Once the system has accepted an in put from the tablet it gives an acknowledging Beep from the computer and prompts for the next command to execute the function .
25 In winter it makes an early morning crossing , returning in the late afternoon and allowing some six hours 2. shore in Porto Santo .
26 When a neurotransmitter fits into its receptor it triggers the chemical response that changes the membrane potential and passes the signal from one neurone to another .
27 Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve .
28 Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve .
29 With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water .
30 Powered by a souped-up , 80 bhp Mini engine it has a tough steel frame and fibreglass bodywork .
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