Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
2 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
3 | In poetry it found its perfect fulfilment ; already , his vocation was being felt . |
4 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |
5 | But it was the idea of ‘ the garden in the wood ’ which really fired Lady Amory 's imagination ; to this day it remains her favourite part of the garden . |
6 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
7 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
8 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
9 | Gustavo Gutierrez has stressed the importance of this remark for Latin America , adding : ‘ The preference , the predilection ( not exclusive , let's be clear ) for the poor is not opposed in the mind of the Pope to his universal mission ; on the contrary it makes his universal mission quite concrete ’ ( Alberigo and Jossua , pp. 239 , 240 ) . |
10 | There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts . |
11 | IBM is using STM to study the surface of silicon , gold and thin layers of oxides in an attempt to learn more about the way it effects their electrical properties . |
12 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
13 | Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well . |
14 | Digital Equipment Corp will be trailing far behind IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co by the time it gets its Alpha-based hardware out , according to Butler Bloor Ltd 's Open Systems report , published this week . |
15 | If an EM field is applied to the cell , the cell 's EM activity becomes aligned to the nature of the applied field and at the same time it re-arranges its intracellular components accordingly . |
16 | As the Moon orbits around the Earth it exerts its gravitational pull as illustrated : |