Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successful living in Los Angeles requires controlling the environment , whereas in Bali it requires a total surrender . |
| 2 | This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body . |
| 5 | For a small village it has an absolute wealth of historic treasures and one most impressive modern innovation — Alvingham Pottery . |
| 6 | Despite the vulgar character of such poetry it conceals a genuine sadness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In winter it makes an early morning crossing , returning in the late afternoon and allowing some six hours 2. shore in Porto Santo . |
| 11 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 12 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 13 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 14 | Powered by a souped-up , 80 bhp Mini engine it has a tough steel frame and fibreglass bodywork . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although it carries a slight risk of giving false positive results , if followed by a rectal examination it gives a good indication of the presence of prostate malignancy , which can be further confirmed by ultrasound and biopsy . |
| 17 | Although the only relief claimed is payment of money , in form of process it resembles a fixed-date action ( see below ) . |
| 18 | She has no sense of her own sexuality — which stimulates the clerk — or of the value of her sexuality : though promised to her husband it becomes an easy counter to pay on the threat of being changed into an animal . |
| 19 | In the abstract it has a great deal of force . |
| 20 | Detroit is shabby , poverty-ridden and struggling to keep its head above water It has a huge crime problem . |
| 21 | In addition , the Kingscote pavement shares with mosaic 9 a similar arrangement and a border of relieved swastika meander ; and like the Lydney mosaic it has a circular band of scroll pattern , while " the curving scrolls with petals and volutes are best mirrored in both of the panels which lie above the Hare mosaic . |
| 22 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |
| 23 | We have argued that much communication is English-based , and in education it constitutes a real choice since a purpose may be the teaching of specific English structures through sign . |
| 24 | Leaving aside for a moment the question of the cogency of this argument , on its surface it reveals a decisive break from liberal principles . |
| 25 | That 's one thing here , will get them in and out , but I 've spoken to patients who say they do n't get the care here and , on the surface it looks a brilliant hospital , it gets them in and out , you know , it does everything , it 's got all the facilities but it does n't give them the care . |
| 26 | As magma rises towards the surface it exerts a considerable pressure on the overlying rock . |
| 27 | but it is primary evidence and I think as primary evidence it has an extra value to the child 's records , and to the school 's records , over and beyond what |
| 28 | While it 's still not a big weighty tome it gives a fuller picture of what we 're doing and where we 're going . ’ |
| 29 | For example it has a good story , exciting in parts , amusing in parts and with some memorably drawn characters . |
| 30 | But it 's like pouring kettles of hot water into a cold bath it takes a long time for them to make an impression . ’ |