Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 3 | In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] . |
| 4 | But to the Hebrew mind it covered all human relationships . |
| 5 | And the optical type it contains this photoelectric cell which triggers alarm when the beam is disturbed by smoke particles . |
| 6 | When the Iranian government abrogated its CENTO membership it branded any neighbouring country that remained in CENTO as a lackey of imperialism and as hostile to Iran . |
| 7 | Though this was a less controversial aim it had less emotional kick . |
| 8 | In fairness , too , one has to admit that Marxism is not monolithic , and that in literary and cultural criticism it provides many possible positions . |
| 9 | On its pharyngeal surface it bears lateral sclerotized pieces known as tormae . |
| 10 | In this respect it resembled another favourite hotel of mine , the Quirinale in Rome , where I like to stay in the room where Ronald Firbank died . |
| 11 | The second number of the 1993 volume , which has now gone to print , contains an extra selection of book reviews , and as well as the usual listing it has several other items that will be of interest to anyone who wants to keep up to date with what is being published . |
| 12 | ‘ Caledonian Mining remains interested in Monktonhall , but Macleod is no longer prepared to talk to the board in case it provokes further misleading comments to the press , ’ the source said . |
| 13 | It will be important for marketers to assess the experience of customers with their particular products in case it possesses some unsatisfactory performance or operating characteristic to which customers will eventually build up resistance . |
| 14 | At the undergraduate level it offers two ordinary half courses in European Community Law , and four honours courses available to LLB honours students . |
| 15 | In its early phase it reflected broad Catholic opinion which wanted acceptance as full citizens of the North and had some liberal Unionist support . |
| 16 | but for us lot it made four nice medium size ones |
| 17 | Halliday 's analysis is revealing in the way it relates precise linguistic observation to literary effect . |
| 18 | Pressure from parents has forced a hospital to think again about the way it treats some young patients . |
| 19 | In the last academic year it published 23 major articles , and produced 26 papers in its Discussion Paper series . |
| 20 | At a glittering prize-giving dinner in Liverpool 's Adelphi Hotel it beat 150 other company journals to win the British Association of Industrial Editors Gold Award for an unprecedented second time . |
| 21 | Apart from the rich medium it requires little special attention . |
| 22 | offers potentially to enhance citizen participation in local government , to inform citizens of their rights and duties , and to provide new information-services to citizens , but on balance it reinforces local dominant coalitions , makes local government more expensive to run , makes it less responsive to the general public , and tends to exclude many interests ; |
| 23 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 24 | That lack of success on the acquisitions front — despite the fact it delayed other required moves into international business — has proved the agency 's saving grace . |
| 25 | The authors concerned assume that the word " father " ( or its equivalent in other languages ) has a single meaning in itself , whereas in fact it has many different meanings depending upon what other term forms the other half of the dyadic relationship . |
| 26 | The route was tremendous and very spectacular , crossing the Lake District , the Pennines , the Cleveland Hills , and the North Yorkshire Moors , in fact it links three national parks . |
| 27 | In some ways , however , Maidstone is several small prisons within one perimeter , for in addition to being a training prison it has two special functions . |
| 28 | So body language if you read a lot of the books on body language it takes one single action and it interprets it based on that . |
| 29 | The resulting language varies from one author to another , but as written language it has many general features which can be described and analysed ( Perera , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | As a language it has some particular features : |