Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 2 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
| 3 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 4 | At a superficial level it produces incompatible definitions so that , despite their having the word in common , Thompson and Anderson use ‘ class ’ in different ways . |
| 5 | According to the Health and Safety Executive it costs British Industry more than £2 billion a year in absenteeism . |