Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |
| 2 | Its suspected health hazards , such as cancer and nervous disorders , led the US government to suspend it in 1974 . |
| 3 | This is called the Richardson number ( sometimes the gradient form of the Richardson number to distinguish it from other forms defined somewhat differently ) . |
| 4 | As a New York merchant expressed it in 1762 : " Our importation of dry goods from England is so vastly great , that we are obliged to betake ourselves to all possible arts to make remittances to the British merchants . " |
| 5 | As the Macdonald Survey put it in 1904 , " a curious point in connection with the work being sent out of London is that , except in the case of Edinburgh , the greater cheapness of the work outside London is not due so much to cheaper labour as to lower rents , etc . " . |
| 6 | As the Director of Leeds Polytechnic put it in 1971 : ‘ the very existence of the new polytechnics must signify the end of the general assumption that a liberal education is the only peak to which a higher education can aspire ’ . |