Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't necessarily mean biggest , although it requires some critical mass in each country , and only in selected industries in each country ’ Carroll said . |
| 2 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
| 3 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
| 4 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
| 5 | Still , she did n't mind at all having the blame laid at her door if it saved some other female from having to put up with his unwanted attentions . |
| 6 | " Pictures for the People " was a grand slogan , and if it extracted some national treasures from London for display in Middlesbrough and Huddersfield , it might even do some good . |
| 7 | Reading this poem urges us to ask what ‘ essential history ’ is and wonder if it has some ritual pattern . |
| 8 | This filter examines every character to see if it has some special meaning or if it is to be translated into another character or sequence of characters . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |
| 10 | Unless it had some other cause entirely … |
| 11 | The Bank told us that it does not reject applicants for loans unless it has some firm reason ( such as serious doubt about ability to repay ) . |
| 12 | Again , the placebo could be powerful because it meets some psychological need for attention and treatment . |
| 13 | These two abilities presumably evolved separately ; after all , the splitting of water is useful in its own right , because it releases some chemical energy . |
| 14 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 15 | In some ways these experiences both alleviate the problem as well as reproduce it , since it enables some outside income to prop up a failing agricultural economy postponing either abandonment of the area and/or more radical transformations . |
| 16 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 17 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |
| 18 | Despite its state-centrism , it is worth quoting at length as it catches some key specifics of the practices of the communications industries ' project for global consumerism . |
| 19 | He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity . |