Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves scrambling up a scree slope and then walking along a ledge called the Shamrock Traverse , before making a direct ascent up to the top . |
| 2 | Repairing gutters is not a job for the fainthearted since it involves working up a ladder for quite a long time . |
| 3 | Leaders on Capitol Hill virtually put all other business on hold as it sought to hammer out a debt ceiling increase . |
| 4 | THE body of a 26-year-old man who was apparently buried alive while trying to rescue one of his terriers when it became trapped down a hole , has been found on a Welsh mountainside . |
| 5 | Erm that 's good but there 's an awful lot there , it needs breaking down a bit . |
| 6 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 7 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 8 | While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers . |
| 9 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 10 | It has set up a Directorate of Women 's Affairs and has sponsored a musical show , ‘ The Women ’ s Vision ’ , which is taken around the villages by travelling artists . |
| 11 | It has set up a support centre in Warrington , UK , with a network of all the different types of systems it supports . |
| 12 | It has set up a unit to develop OTC drugs because it believes the Government 's health experts want to reduce reliance on prescription drugs as part of cost-cutting measures . |
| 13 | It has set up a Channel Partner programme and signed Emeryville , California-based Basis Inc as its first reseller . |
| 14 | To return to some of the initiatives London East TEC has introduced , it has set up a series of education and business partnerships . |
| 15 | It has set up a chain of Parent-Link groups across the country , where , with guidance , parents can sort out their problems . |
| 16 | Apart from its original holiday retailing company , it has set up a chain of travel agencies , developed a flight training centre in connection with its Orion airline subsidiary , moved into holiday hotel development and even into selling holiday properties abroad . |
| 17 | Instead , it has drawn up a list of 500 venues where notification is still necessary . |
| 18 | It has drawn up a list of some 30 technical consultants , with interests ranging from marine science to energy , which the bank will call in for advice on esoteric projects that it is asked to fund . |
| 19 | It has opened up a market to Apple , to which it previously had no direct access . |
| 20 | Before starting the drive and after completing it subjects filled in a questionnaire in which they were required to rate their ability at 12 different standard driving manoeuvres . |
| 21 | And it plans to put up a 20mph limit along the road . |
| 22 | It votes to set up a force , but keeps it too small and sends it off with orders not to shoot . |
| 23 | it tends to float down a bit . |
| 24 | The drain-all , strip-out approach to land has been adopted by insurance firms investing in agriculture precisely because it requires no more thought than it takes to fill in a form for the subsidy . |
| 25 | And what 's inspiring about a treatise on who can own brown rice stores and how many people it takes to make up a windmill construction co-operative ? |
| 26 | It aims to set up a network of high quality and affordable playcare provision meeting the district 's needs , community resources officer Jan Farrow said . |
| 27 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 28 | It aims to make more information about Gerson available , fund research projects , and eventually it hopes to set up a centre for people who want to try it , in combination with psychological counselling , according to Renee Henry . |
| 29 | They were speculators , who hoped to sell it for even more than the showroom price even though it meant tying up a £50,000 deposit for four years . |
| 30 | Claims of this type from existing Policyholders show it pays to take out a NatWest Hospital Income Plan : |