Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of the day the UK government announces increases in base rate from 10 to 12 , and then to 15 per cent effective Sept. 17 , in unsuccessful efforts to defend the value of sterling , then withdraws sterling from the ERM , allowing its value to " float " ( as a result of which it falls some 10 per cent against the deutschmark to below DM2.52 by the end of September ) , and cuts base rate to 12 per cent . |
| 2 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 3 | InfoNow Corp , Boulder , Colorado pioneer of what it calls electronic commerce , using digital technology such as CD-ROM , new media , security , encryption , digital transmission to deliver products , has completed a private placing of stock , raising gross proceeds of $1.65m . |
| 4 | The principle of electrolocation , as it has been called , is fairly well understood at the level of physics though not , of course , at the level of what it feels like to be an electric fish . |
| 5 | They are less likely to dominate than are men , because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority . |
| 6 | We now have a colossal documentation of what it feels like to be in the margin . |
| 7 | Surely it makes sense to have this knowledge of what it feels like , almost as if you are on the stage of the London Palladium in front of a full house with the spotlights full on , as you have questions fired at you — rather than be totally unprepared and unrehearsed . |
| 8 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |
| 9 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 10 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |