Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 4 | Much of America 's apparent lead in intelligence technology and the vast sums it spends each year on these organisations has been negated by the large number of spies and traitors continually found within them . |
| 5 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 6 | Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way . |
| 7 | While there are obviously problems in developing and using this type of notional scale it has some utility . |
| 8 | One of the Baltimores was hit by flak and as it spun out of position in the combing box it hit another aircraft , both then spun into the sea . |
| 9 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 10 | Being an alkaline-loving plant it requires some calcium content . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On the one hand claiming Darlington is in such a bad state it needs more Government help , on the other claiming the town is a thriving local centre . |