Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 2 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 3 | According to the patent ( Us 235 199 ) , when the chopped light beam was focused onto the diaphragm it created sympathetic movements which could be heard as sound . |
| 4 | It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges . |
| 5 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 6 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 7 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 8 | If it gets into the predator 's nose it can injure the tissues there and if it enters the mouth it causes violent vomiting . |
| 9 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 10 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 11 | In the process it invented mass entertainment , the 10-lane freeway and smog . |
| 12 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 13 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 16 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 17 | At least at the beginning it lacked social support , usually freely available in the schools from which secondees came . |
| 18 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 19 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 20 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 21 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 22 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 23 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 24 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 25 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 26 | Well , you could do , if , particularly if you had one of our meters , but what , what happens , as sound goes through the air it causes small pressure fluctuations , and our meter measures the size of these , and it gives a reading on a scale in units which we call decibels . |
| 27 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 28 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 29 | For the importer it provides short-term finance , pending the re-sale of the goods in his domestic market . |
| 30 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |