Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roddick calls it the Marcel Proust questionnaire and it asks such unlikely questions as : How would you like to die ? |
| 2 | Its lights flickered at random and it made odd beeping noises . |
| 3 | And it provokes disturbing theological questions . |
| 4 | This is sometimes done at discotheques , and it produces some dramatic effects . |
| 5 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 6 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 7 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 8 | Mephenesin was not a good drug : its effects were too short lived , and it had other unwanted effects . |
| 9 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 10 | The study is re- examining the national accounts measurement of government services ; it argues that most public servants in fact do things which can be measured and it provides some alternative estimates for real output growth in education , health and public administration ( which compares well with broadly analogous private financial services ) . |
| 11 | The document argued that a school would be more effective in achieving its aims if they were written down and it suggested six possible aims expressed at a high level of generality , for example : to develop lively enquiring minds … ; to acquire the knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world . |
| 12 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week announced that it has expanded the number of software and communications products offered under its Distributed Computing Model to the DPX/20 Unix and DPS GCOS systems , and it introduced two new models of the DPX/20 , based on IBM 's Power RISC architecture . |
| 13 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 14 | So here we are in January , my premiums are going into the Japanese fund , I want next month 's , February 's to go into the managed , that 's just changing , and it leaves these Japanese funds invested , here . |
| 15 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 16 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 17 | ‘ But it says such shocking things ! ’ |
| 18 | But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements : |
| 19 | It will consist of waste sent to the Sellafield reprocessing plant , Much of the waste is of the low-level variety , but it includes 10,000 cubic metres of medium-level waste , and 80 cubic metres of high-level waste . |
| 20 | ferry timetables forced a quick visit , but it allowed two good days ' walking . |
| 21 | Here 's a lovely winter scene but it contains ten deliberate mistakes . |
| 22 | Flying a new type of glider is always fun , but it worries many inexperienced pilots : there is always an extra element of risk if an unexpected situation occurs on the first flight in an unfamiliar machine . |
| 23 | Food for Microwaving is also useful but it has some curious entries : under flour , for instance , it simply describes what flour is and what it is used for , but has nothing to offer on how microwaving affects it in pastry , cakes , etc . |
| 24 | Multimedia is one ingredient in this climate of change and potential diversification but it has some particular implications which publishers need to understand . |
| 25 | But it has some clear themes . |
| 26 | Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms . |
| 27 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 28 | ‘ It is a sad reflection , but it affects all stately homes , ’ Tatton Park director Mike Beaufoy said . |
| 29 | It is not as highly structured a programme as microteaching would demand but it applies some microteaching principles in the emphasis placed on the elements of classroom interaction . |
| 30 | But it follows 27 consecutive months of rising unemployment and record business failures . |