Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it .
2	Raving resembled a huge , religious ritual , and like other such rituals it gave many people an insight into a transcendental state .
3	To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University .
4	‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard .
5	From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm .
6	If they are , in many cases it means certain death for them .
7	‘ For many farmers it spells financial disaster and few of the smaller ones have recovered .
8	Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it .
9	In many ways it has considerable weaknesses .
10	So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well .
11	Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures .
12	Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes .
13	Most colleges it seems contained people made unhappy by sexual harassment , who find little or no support from the people charged to provide that support .

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