Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It bears the meaning it has in ordinary language : Lawrence & Pomroy ( 1971 ) 57 Cr App R 64 . |
| 3 | The independent status ascribed to this concept by elite theorists , as opposed to the reflective and subordinate quality it has in late Marx and early Marxism , is an important characteristic of elite theory . |
| 4 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 5 | Analysis of the atk protein product will shed light on the role it plays in B-cell pathways , particularly in view of the fact that src -related protein-tyrosine kinases such as blk , fyn , lyn and lck , and others have already been implicated in B-cell activation . |
| 6 | The role it plays in normal memory may therefore have been underestimated . |
| 7 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |
| 8 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 9 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 10 | The doormouse appears at night but the tell tale neat round hole it leaves in hazel nut shells , shows where it has been . |
| 11 | The New York-based Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp plans to invest up to $300m in the development of local Hungarian telephone companies , installing up to 200,000 new telephone lines , and it also plans to invest the money it raised in long-distance telephone ventures . |
| 12 | In the wild it grows in shady woodland so will do well under shrubs in cultivation . |
| 13 | Perhaps , too , the darker minds , full of rancour and disharmony , anger , lust , egotism , greed and intense attachment to the things of this world , takes the hell it experienced in physical life into its own world of mental hell when deprived of the physical form . |
| 14 | Part of my thesis rests upon the belief that if deixis operates in a different way in lyric poetry from the way it does in non-literary discourse , it does so in degree , not in kind . |
| 15 | The office of collector attracted that type of candidate , and throughout the century it remained in high demand , occasioning many notable political battles in the counties . |