Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 2 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 3 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 4 | These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity . |
| 5 | This was the aspiration of increasing numbers of provincial antislavery militants ; how closely they approximated their aim and what tensions it provoked with parliamentary abolitionists , especially Buxton , can be observed in part through examining the use of the delegate conference or convention . |
| 6 | By the following morning Mr Reynolds was apyrexial and although his temperature was recorded every four hours for the next five days it remained within normal limits . |
| 7 | It makes law depend on distinct social conventions it designates as legal conventions ; in particular on conventions about which institutions should have power to make law and how . |
| 8 | The intensity of the field is generally weak , falling to 10–20% of the initial strength over most of the Earth 's surface , but in places it rises to high values . |
| 9 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 10 | Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas . |
| 11 | One can either directly estimate the value of all the final goods and services ( a variant would be to estimate what every branch of production adds to the value of the goods it uses as raw materials ) . |
| 12 | At the centre of the conception is high youth unemployment which , it is assumed , in the case of males leads to crime and trouble with the police ; in the case of females it leads to single-parent families . |
| 13 | Surely , the longer an animal lives , and the longer it goes on producing offspring , the more genes it transmits to future generations ? |
| 14 | A ham came next ; after some frenzied bidding at the lower prices it climbed to thirteen guineas , then to fourteen where it seemed likely to stay until at the very last moment , a cautious male voice offered fifteen guineas . |
| 15 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 16 | Now the European Institute of Technology — an industrial organisation founded by IBM Europe , AT&T , Enichem , Montedison and Philips — has asked it to handle the intellectual property rights for the scientific projects it supports in European institutions . |
| 17 | The examination of the evidence from villas was not as thorough as one would have liked , as in most cases it comes from old accounts and is of extremely poor quality , with very little attempt , if any , at a stratigraphical analysis . |
| 18 | Although on average it cropped up only once an hour , there appeared to be semantic restrictions on the type of verb with which it occurred ; in the majority of cases it occurred with dynamic verbs of activity , the most frequent being do , make , finish , write . |
| 19 | The Forest law was universally hated because of the penalties and restrictions it imposed on all classes of the king 's subjects . |
| 20 | It 's a star when it comes to automating frequent tasks and it 's very good at queries and reports , especially in terms of the tools it provides for non-technical users . |