Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 2 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 3 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 4 | Perversely it costs more per unit quantity to pack in drums than it does in 5 litre quantities . |
| 5 | Well it must get hotter than it does in this house for a start ! |
| 6 | Thus " obscene " , in law , has a very different , and very much stronger , meaning than it possesses in colloquial usage . |
| 7 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 9 | According to this , we can best assess the intrinsic value of something if we ask how good or bad a thing it would be if it existed in complete isolation . |
| 10 | What could be more sensible than the suggestion that the best way of evaluating a thing for its very own self , and not for its effects or its contribution to the value of larger wholes , is to consider what value it would possess if it existed in complete isolation ? |
| 11 | If it results in young Pardy being charged with a lesser offence , Deanes will be highly satisfied . |
| 12 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 13 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 14 | Presumably we shall have a good chew at the clause in Committee , but if it remains in that form we shall certainly be unable to support the Bill on Third Reading . |
| 15 | ‘ If the spirit continues to live after the death of the body , ’ he said to himself , ‘ is it so very surprising if it remains in this world for a time ? ’ |
| 16 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 17 | Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter . |
| 18 | Since it results in long operation code fields , full bit significance is not used for operation code assignment , except at the microprogram level discussed in 3.6 . |
| 19 | Since it believes in minimum meddling in industry , there is less need for detailed disaggregated figures , and so for figures to be collected by the departments where policy is made . |
| 20 | However , we aim to send off airmail abroad on the working day after it is posted , and to deliver incoming airmail on the working day after it arrives in this country . |
| 21 | What will determine whether it emerges in one form or another is market demand — the same thing that will determine the pace and direction of electronic book development more generally . |
| 22 | The National Deaf and Dumb Society , the first ever national organisation for deaf people in Britain , had had a very short-lived existence — a mere 6 years — before it dissolved in internal strife in 1885 . |
| 23 | It is the prostate gland which , when it enlarges in later life , as it often does , may cause difficulty in passing urine . |
| 24 | In this respect considerable reliance was placed upon Lord Diplock 's dictum in Gill and Duffus SA v Berger and Co Inc [ 1984 ] AC 382 : … while " description " itself is an ordinary English word , the Act contains no definition of what it means when it speaks in that section of a contract for the sale of goods being a sale " by description " . |
| 25 | As for the economy , when it hurts in this recession , the pain is felt most — in a way that is most unfair — by the same families and communities who felt the worst pain in every other recession . |
| 26 | How do you get twenty for that one when it went in that hole ? |
| 27 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 28 | It is apt that one of the first two recordings made by Kurt Masur in his new role as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic should be of the New World Symphony , particularly when it comes in ample time to celebrate the centenary of the first performance of that favourite work by this very orchestra in December 1893 . |
| 29 | You only recognize it when it rises in bodily form , like the Daurog itself . |
| 30 | It is recognisable even when it appears in feminist dress , as it does , for example , in these remarks of Hester Eisenstein ( 1984 ) : ‘ I argue that feminist theory has moved from an emphasis on the elimination of gender difference to a celebration of that difference as a source of moral values . |