Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 6 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
| 7 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | To local residents of the outer city it remains their best form of protection against rapid change . |
| 10 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
| 11 | Thus Radio 4 's long-running soap opera The Archers was born and this year it celebrates its 40th birthday . |
| 12 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 13 | It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered . |
| 14 | But on the eastern margin it keeps its own counsel : instead of heading out to sea to follow the line of the Easter Island Ridge , this Pacific Ocean boundary stretches ( with only three minor hiccups ) directly down the American coasts , from Attu Island in the Aleutians to Diego Ramirez Island off Cape Horn . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As the Moon orbits around the Earth it exerts its gravitational pull as illustrated : |