Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 2 | The sky is grey and abysmal ; it has grown blacker since morning . |
| 3 | For example , there is no conclusive evidence from anywhere that DDT has ever killed anybody , yet we have ample evidence that it has saved millions of lives . |
| 4 | It has saved billions of pounds by writing reports that are always respected and independent , and which suggest ways in which local government — and , now , the health service — can get better value for money . |
| 5 | Since the 1985 unrest , and particularly after the 1987 General Election , the Government has announced a number of initiatives on the inner city , and it has presented these as part of an effort to rejuvenate depressed areas on a sound basis . |
| 6 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 7 | They have meant , for example , that housing policies have endorsed the view that each nuclear family should have its own household , and thus increasingly it has become possible for people to take that option . |
| 8 | It has become clearer to people what they are there for , and the importance of research and students . |
| 9 | Essentially , that is the issue in the debates which opened up in the Enlightenment period , and it has remained central in theology ever since . |
| 10 | It has inspired centuries-worth of discussion and analysis . |
| 11 | It has done more , for example , for the understanding of music by ordinary people of this country than any other organisation , including the Arts Council ’ — this was a generous admission from the then chairman of the Arts Council — ‘ and it has done much for education and a great deal for general culture . |
| 12 | A CHESHIRE theatre yesterday raised the curtain on its Christmas show six months before it is due to open and disclosed it has scooped some of Britain 's major stars for its pantomime line-up . |
| 13 | JWP Inc , the Rye Brook , New York electrical and plumbing services conglomerate that bought struggling Businessland Inc and almost immediately regretted it , has decided that it has had enough of computers altogether and on Friday announced that it will sell its information services business ; it has retained Lazard Freres & Co as its financial advisor to attempt to find a buyer ; the unit now provides personal computer-related hardware , software and integrated services primarily to large corporate and institutional customers , has some 3,000 staff and had 1992 revenues of $1,700m . |
| 14 | The Labour party may well find that by the time it has spent billions of pounds on all income levels it will not have the extra money to spend on those who need it most . |
| 15 | Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks . |
| 16 | It has proved convenient for Conservatives and Labour parties and will probably continue to be so as long as one of them holds office . |
| 17 | It has proved excellent in South Africa since 1903 , especially in cooler areas with a higher rainfall where the Brahman and Africander are not successful . |
| 18 | For this reason it has proved popular with Local Authorities . |
| 19 | Those who suffer from PMS less frequently reported that it has got better with time . |
| 20 | Yamaichi is expected to become the 20th market-maker this summer ; it has recruited two of S.G. Warburg 's best analysts . |
| 21 | The European Commission is trying to deregulate the European airline market , but it wants to stop short of America 's ‘ open skies ’ policy . |
| 22 | Will it be used mainly at night , or does it need to look fresh for breakfast , serviceable for lunch and intimate for dinner parties ? |
| 23 | The annoyances , injustices , and setbacks from which it suffered seem small in retrospect , but they preyed on the minds of its members at the time . |
| 24 | Last week , it seemed to matter enough for Mr Hurd to hint that the Government would refuse to ratify if the amendment prevailed . |
| 25 | Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time . |
| 26 | If you 're using wooden or fibrous plaster mouldings without pilaster for the arch , it tends to look better with corbels fitted to its ‘ springing points ’ ( where the arch starts on the side walls ) . |
| 27 | The Shamir administration refrained , however , from challenging for the time being the apparent PLO involvement with the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , nor did it decide to use this as grounds for withdrawing from the conference . |
| 28 | It began to glow red for overload . |
| 29 | But BZW remains more pessimistic , believing the FT-SE index would have to fall to 2,200 before it started to look attractive to investors . |
| 30 | So should we be able to wear what we feel comfortable in , even if it means going casual in shorts and T-shirts ? |