Example sentences of "[noun prp] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But in Washington it caused a nasty row . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like Scotland it has a traditional reliance on textiles and alcoholic drinks — 20,000 people work in Beaujolais production alone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the Atlantic it has a bathymetric distribution of 1410–1700 m . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | She said : ‘ I really love Africa it has a special place in my affections . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The largest island in the Bay of Naples it boasts a bustling port , thermal spas and sandy beaches . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For Davenport it represented a personal triumph , following the miserable time he endured while with Boro . |
| 17 | At Felixstowe it offers a 24-hour service to some of the world 's biggest ships , handling around 6,000 vessel movements a year . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |