Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped to develop valuable projects ; it utilized market skills in the implementation of schemes ; and it began that process of integrating central-government departments into corporate entities through which regional problems might be better addressed . |
| 2 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 3 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 4 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 5 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 6 | It was a protracted illness , accompanied by a high temperature , and it precipitated another bout of bronchitis . |
| 7 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 8 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 9 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 10 | And it backs increased monitoring of genetic damage in groups of humans , such as workers in chemical factories . |
| 11 | Admission to a Home is a very big step in a person 's life — and it brings all sorts of fears and anxieties . |
| 12 | Maximum reach is 8m , and it works either side of the tractor . |
| 13 | William Boyd 's excellent survey of evacuation in Scotland showed that out of sixty-eight questionnaire returns giving details of journeys in the first wave , fully one-third spoke of their evacuees not arriving at their destinations until 5 p.m. or later ; and it included graphic descriptions of such journeys , including the testimony of one teacher evacuated from Glasgow to Aberdeenshire , whose journey was : |
| 14 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 15 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 16 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 17 | Taboo is a Polynesian word , and it means some kind of supernatural law or prohibition which you infringe at your supernatural peril . |
| 18 | Consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group Plc has bought one of the UK computer superstore pioneers , Vision Technology Group Ltd , which operates the PC World chain of superstores , for about £8.5m in cash and loan notes : Vision Tech was incorporated in 1991 to acquire a group of companies engaged in the sale by mail order of personal computers , peripherals , software and accessories to corporate and educational customers and the individual customers ; it made £400,000 pre-tax on volume of £49.3m last year from its stores in Croydon , West Thurrock , Brentford and Staples Corner , and it has net assets of £800,000 . |
| 19 | Its current revenue budget is £317 million gross and it has 15,000 staff of which 8,000 are teachers . |
| 20 | ‘ And it raises all sorts of questions about the car crash , does n't it ? ’ |
| 21 | When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine . |
| 22 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 23 | The bus held about twenty people , but it carried all manner of other things . |
| 24 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 25 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 26 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 27 | To a large degree this was centred , although not confined , to the newer , suburban churches , but it affected all aspects of Nonconformist church-life . |
| 28 | But it includes large parts of the Wear Valley district where the LibDems took spectacular local authority control from Labour in May . |
| 29 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 30 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |