Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 2 | Because there are so many variables in the equation , it is inevitable that management has some discretion as to how much weight it attaches to any point in a particular case . |
| 3 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |
| 4 | These are too common to be the result of incapacity , and they are furthermore reinforced by the unpredictable but frequent use of the other devices of sound : alliteration in ‘ light laid ’ , ‘ shining shield ’ , ‘ ward all wounds ’ , etc. , alliterative assonance in ‘ sails of silver ’ , ‘ Night of Naught ’ , ‘ sight … he sought ’ and ‘ boat it bore with biting breath ’ . |
| 5 | But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves . |
| 6 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 7 | You also have to think of the effect it has on other people , how er if you just let people get away with it , it does n't mean you hate them , loathe them and damn them but er you 've got to make them realise that for other people , for everybody . |
| 8 | Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole . |
| 9 | The anecdote is instructive for the light it throws on changing relationships with clinicians . |
| 10 | Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth . |
| 11 | Ken , in the event neither fulminated nor frothed , and managed to restrict himself to a 15-minute speech in which he advanced some very cogent and well measured arguments for preventing bolting gaining the same sort of prominence it has in other countries — notably France and America . |
| 12 | It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn . |
| 13 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 14 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 15 | Another attraction of the scheme is the flexibility it gives to general practitioners to make budgetary savings in certain aspects of their clinical practice which can then be reinvested in other aspects of patient care . |
| 16 | The moment it is within range it strikes with sudden speed , burying its fangs in the soft neck tissues of its prey . |
| 17 | Philips in the Netherlands has claimed an efficiency of 30 per cent with an engine it built from conventional materials . |
| 18 | At the moment it looks like amateur night . |
| 19 | Reedgrass ( Phalaris arundinacea ) is everywhere , with some particularly fine stands by the university ; at one site it grows alongside amphibious bistort ( Polygonum amphibium ) . |
| 20 | Together they went to bullfights , to watch Chamaco and Ordonez perform , Minton 's interest in this art having been fired by Hemingway 's Death in the Afternoon , by its colourfulness , sense of theatre and by the focus it gives to male idolatry . |
| 21 | Another important field that will not receive the attention it deserves in this book is the whole area of music . |
| 22 | When he was admitted to the ward , Mr Reynolds ' temperature was recorded orally at 36.8 C. Throughout the pre-operative period it remained within normal limits . |
| 23 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 24 | If a clock travels from P 1 to P 2 then the time interval it measures between these events is called the proper time Δτ , with . |
| 25 | The principles behind the model are firstly , that management 's objective is to commission or provide effective , efficient services to meet the needs of the community it serves within finite resources . |
| 26 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
| 27 | Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different . |
| 28 | It bears the meaning it has in ordinary language : Lawrence & Pomroy ( 1971 ) 57 Cr App R 64 . |
| 29 | Somehow it has measured and remembered the distance it ran on each stage of its outward journey . |
| 30 | The speed of a pulse of light is the distance it travels between two events , divided by the time interval between the events . |