Example sentences of "[noun prp] it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When you create a document in Ventura it has an underlying frame . |
2 | On Afghanistan it welcomed the latest initiative by the UN Secretary General to find a political solution , and supported " the Afghan mujaheddin 's efforts to form a broad-based government " . |
3 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
4 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |
5 | But in Washington it caused a nasty row . |
6 | For a considerable distance it is now followed by a main road ( A422 and B4525 ) , but near Culworth it becomes a narrow lane , running through almost deserted country , past Adstone Lodge and Foxley to Cold Higham . |
7 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
8 | Like Scotland it has a traditional reliance on textiles and alcoholic drinks — 20,000 people work in Beaujolais production alone . |
9 | Possibly even in the most traditional area of slave cultivation , sugar , the mechanisation of sugar-mills from the mid-century diminished the need for labour in processing the product , though in booming sugar economies like Cuba it produced a corresponding rise in the demand for field-hands . |
10 | No longer a mixture of local dialects , Standard English " had emerged " , and the east Midland dialect " had now become " the King " s English ; finally , " through the works of Chaucer it became the literary language of the country " . |
11 | In the Atlantic it has a bathymetric distribution of 1410–1700 m . |
12 | ‘ It 's just that after we went to live in South Africa it seemed a sensible choice for a third language , as the only non-English-speaking countries among the front line states are Mozambique and Angola . ’ |
13 | She said : ‘ I really love Africa it has a special place in my affections . ’ |
14 | In October it staged an important loan exhibition of Dutch 17th century paintings , which included more than 140 works from Holland 's Golden Age drawn from collections throughout the country , including those of the National Gallery and HM the Queen . |
15 | Like much of Penwith it has a powerful ethos which refuses to be submerged by the modern world ; the countryside is littered with artefacts spanning the centuries , from megalithic chamber tombs to nineteenth-century mine workings , and only the moron can escape a sense of continuity with an obligation to the past . |
16 | Like PageMaker it lacks the sophisticated text entry and manipulation tools necessary to generate the material it will process but , unlike PageMaker , once it has that material it can produce documents virtually automatically . |
17 | This religion concentrates upon a particular person , Jesus of Nazareth , but in its definition of God it describes the divine being as a Trinity — that is to say three persons . |
18 | For Tsongas this was considered a reward for his diligent and intelligent campaigning in the state , whilst for Clinton it represented a powerful resurgence for a campaign which , in early February , was being widely written off as doomed . |
19 | The largest island in the Bay of Naples it boasts a bustling port , thermal spas and sandy beaches . |
20 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
21 | We had a date for this afternoon but when I heard about Francis it seemed the decent thing to postpone the arrangement . |
22 | WHILST Minton lived at Hamilton Terrace it remained an open house for anyone wishing to call . |
23 | hip hop culture may not have meant an awful lot in Britain in 1992 but in America it remains a hot spot of commerce , musical cred and political dialogue . |
24 | The teetotal movement had another important effect : once it took root in America it strengthened the Anglo-American bond . |
25 | The Commission resorted to desperate , grand-scale measures : along the valley of the river Netze as far east as Bromberg it settled a solid block of 22,000 Germans in an effort to prevent Polish land purchases in the area . |
26 | At its last meeting on the 11th June it passed the following resolution : |
27 | The same is true of Univel — already so tightly bound to Novell it uses the same premises and the self-same order-entry system . |
28 | For Davenport it represented a personal triumph , following the miserable time he endured while with Boro . |
29 | At Felixstowe it offers a 24-hour service to some of the world 's biggest ships , handling around 6,000 vessel movements a year . |
30 | The rationale is interesting , and as so often with Justinian it has a moralistic flavour : ‘ because it is quite ridiculous and unreasonable that an object which someone does not absolutely possess among his property he should be able to transfer to others or charge as a hypothec or pledge or manumit and deceive the hopes of others . ’ |