Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNF α additionally induces expression of the powerfully procoagulant tissue factor , released only at sites of endothelial damage where it activates the extrinsic limb of the coagulation cascade . |
| 2 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 4 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 5 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 6 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 7 | He felt attached to it so had tattooed the name in his right armpit where it matched the oriental dragon rampaging over the inside of his bicep . |
| 8 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 9 | A more speculative exploration area for stratabound mineralisation is the south-eastern margin of the back-arc Lower Palaeozoic Welsh Basin where it abuts the continental margin of the Midlands Microcraton . |
| 10 | Novell Inc has formed a new business unit at the old Digital Research base in Monterey , California to focus on helping customers use commodity hardware and Novell 's client operating systems to build low-cost turnkey systems for manufacturing and service industry applications such as manufacturing process control , industrial automation and support of point-of-sale terminals — where it claims the Digital Research FlexOS has become the standard . |
| 11 | Now Dr A. Noyan and colleagues from Hacettepe University in Ankara have discovered that the lymph nodes ( small swellings ) found at intervals along the lymph vessels act as tiny hearts , pumping lymph up from the extremities of the body towards the neck , where it enters the venous circulation ( Journal of Muscle Research and Ceil Motility , vol 4 , p 103 ) . |
| 12 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 13 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 14 | Once the correct order of probes has been established it is easy to fit the clones to this probe order , using an algorithm which essentially places each clone on that section of the probe order where it has the highest density of positives . |
| 15 | The maintenance of armies on this scale and the continued uncertainty of medieval political life had other effects too ; although it escaped the large-scale violence which affected much of Northern England during the Wars of the Roses , Sussex had an ample share of earlier troubles . |
| 16 | The new church , although it incorporated the old church of San Satiro , was named for the Madonna , which explains why the new church is renown as Santa Maria presso San Satiro , the church of St Mary near St Satiro . |
| 17 | The Commission will have limited powers , although it lacks the full enforcement machinery , to apply Articles 85 and 86 to any merger which does constitute a concentration within the Merger Regulation , but does not meet the turnover thresholds . |
| 18 | Although it retains the overall configuration and shape of previous models , the BV will be a substantially different aircraft with a seven-foot increase in fuselage length over the Guylfstream IV , an entirely new wing of thirteen feet greater span with an airfoil section optimised for high-altitude , high-speed operation , an enlarged flight deck ( the airstair door has also been moved five feet aft for easier cabin access ) , and new braking , nose-wheel steering and electrical systems . |
| 19 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 21 | Although it harboured the worst sort of poverty , inequality and exploitation during the 1930s and 1940s , not least because its bright lights attracted millions from the surrounding countryside , it seethed with exuberant life and economic activity . |
| 22 | It has been shown that the Upper Freshwater Bed of the Cromer Forest Bed dates probably from an early interglacial , but there is no sign of a marine transgression in the bed although it covers the middle part of the interglacial , when such a transgression would be expected . |
| 23 | The Etude retrouvée that he also plays is one that the composer did not use in the final set ; although it has the same title and key as Pour les arpèges composés , it is otherwise quite different and a splendid piece which pianists will look forward to seeing in print . |
| 24 | It looked tidier , neater than it had the previous day . |
| 25 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 26 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 27 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 28 | The Reformation Parliament of 1529 to 1536 attacked the ‘ privileges of Rome ’ and its jurisdiction of the Church , so it recognised the new marriage of the King to Anne Boleyn , in January 1533 . |
| 29 | But , of course , as the patient 's immune system recovered and rejected the cancer so it rejected the transplanted organ leaving the patient with no option but to return to dialysis . |
| 30 | It is thought that previously matured vitrinite would begin to undergo maturation again once it reached the maximum temperature to which it had been originally exposed . |