Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb -s] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The board says it needs such a store in any case in the 1990s because there may be a shortage of reprocessing capacity at British Nuclear Fuels ' Sellafield plant ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 289 ) .
2 No I got the cakes Does it look alright Paul ?
3 As the meeting progresses it becomes clear that the railway link will be very expensive , involving tunnelling through the hills and viaducts across the marsh .
4 And as the drama unfolds it reveals complex layers of corruption and influence-peddling .
5 The UN thinks it has one other card .
6 The dog decides it had better police this family itself , and , next thing you know , it is fastening its jaws on disobedient members of the family , its family .
7 The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time .
8 The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year .
9 The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch .
10 I said well why the why the fuck does it do that ?
11 The redemption will be funded using cash from operations and earnings in the quarter ended December 31 1992 and the company says it intends further redemptions of the 10% debentures throughout 1993 — after April 1 , some $427m of the 10% debt will remain outstanding .
12 The company says it has four new products coming this quarter — Stacker for Macintosh , Stacker for OS/2 & MS-DOS , and two new releases of Stacker for Windows & MS-DOS to address the compression shortcomings of MS-DOS 6.0 , and it now has a streamlined organisation .
13 The company says it supports 16 serial ports operating at up to 115.2Kbps .
14 In practice , it has been suggested that the C. and A.G. also has a close and effective working relationship with the Public Accounts Committee ; this is the committee of the House of Commons responsible for examining the public accounts it sees fit to examine and has the power to send for persons , papers and records .
15 The AA says it surveyed two hundred and sixteen car parks … and the Westgate Centre scored joint lowest in every category .
16 The IRA claims it gave 38 minutes warning of the Warrington bombs and details of their exact location .
17 It 's a triangle entails It has three angles Lesley is Arthur 's mother entails Lesley is female
18 The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands .
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