Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] it [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 2 | Adis who appeared before news cameras at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford earlier this week was transferred to Stoke Mandeville because it houses the national spinal injuries centre . |
| 3 | A more appropriate image of Britain as it approaches the twenty-first century is of the economy governed by a not-so-hidden engine , working for greater inequality , both in rewards and life chances . |
| 4 | Labour has promised to restore Trades Union rights to workers at GCHQ in Cheltenham if it forms the next Government . |
| 5 | At just 24p , the chocolate treat is cheaper here than anywhere else in the world , except America where it costs the same . |
| 6 | Its secession , however , would be a blow to Serbia because it controls the narrow strip of Adriatic coast that includes the rump federation 's only commercial port and naval base . |