Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 2 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 3 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 4 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 5 | In the early twentieth-century it had two churches , one shop , no omnibus or train service , no gas or water supply and no electricity ( the Rectory had a private generator ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 8 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 9 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 12 | Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution it boasts award-winning museums , heritage sites and first-class accommodation in beautiful Shropshire countryside . |
| 13 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 14 | The only , the only thing it has short days |
| 15 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 16 | It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls . |
| 17 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 18 | In this way , the Committee was able , quite consistently , to propose what , on the one hand appeared to be a relaxation of the law in the area of homosexuality , whilst on the other hand it recommended stronger sanctions in the area of prostitution . |
| 19 | A letter erm from New Baysford it says Two weeks ago my car was nicked in Illkeston in the Pimlico car park between the hours of two and five whilst shopping . |
| 20 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |
| 21 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |