Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
2 | In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also . |
3 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
4 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
5 | Successful living in Los Angeles requires controlling the environment , whereas in Bali it requires a total surrender . |
6 | This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory . |
7 | It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence . |
8 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
9 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
10 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
11 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
12 | For a small village it has an absolute wealth of historic treasures and one most impressive modern innovation — Alvingham Pottery . |
13 | Despite the vulgar character of such poetry it conceals a genuine sadness . |
14 | Because of the translucent water and the high , rocky , almost petrified appearance of the cave 's formation it added a mysterious uniqueness to the beautiful strains of the music . |
15 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
16 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
17 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
18 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
19 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
20 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
21 | But in the desert it gives a strange moaning sound , low and sensual , accompanied by the singing of the sand as it skates across itself . |
22 | Once the system has accepted an in put from the tablet it gives an acknowledging Beep from the computer and prompts for the next command to execute the function . |
23 | In winter it makes an early morning crossing , returning in the late afternoon and allowing some six hours 2. shore in Porto Santo . |
24 | When a neurotransmitter fits into its receptor it triggers the chemical response that changes the membrane potential and passes the signal from one neurone to another . |
25 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
26 | Powered by a souped-up , 80 bhp Mini engine it has a tough steel frame and fibreglass bodywork . |
27 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
28 | If this was Richard 's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last . |
29 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
30 | On its Edinburgh site it holds a living collection of around 30000 accessions ; a Herbarium containing some 2 million dried plant specimens from a world-wide range ; and a research library holding 75000 volumes books and over 1500 current scientific periodical titles . |