Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It passed this information on in a terrible hushed whine that seemed to creep in and fill the head . |
2 | It offers short-term care up to a maximum of 6 weeks , a befriending service as well as bereavement counselling , transport and massage . |
3 | Acid rain affects trees partly because it dissolves essential nutrients out of the soil , such as magnesium and calcium — but again releases aluminium , which the trees take up to their detriment . |
4 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
5 | Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children . |
6 | He can impose his choice because the president is elected not by the voters but by the National Assembly , where the Motherland party still has an ample majority : it holds 290 seats out of 450 Should a party which , judging by the latest test at the polls , is supported by only one voter in five choose the head of state ? |
7 | In the last election in 1984 , it scored 24 wins out of 28 . |
8 | Strangely , it seemed less dark out on the water than on land . |
9 | In Paris , the government 's response was an admission of impotence : it turned civilian authority over to the Commander-in-Chief , General Raoul Salan . |
10 | Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’ |
11 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
12 | These figures are hardly surprising — it took most respondents up to six weeks to find a replacement . |
13 | Yeah , I know it puts more work back on the people asking for the money , but if , if that went ahead , and they it up , and the whole lot came down . |
14 | Conversely , Habitat flew in the face of expert opinion when it introduced pack-flat furniture on to the American market . |
15 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
16 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
17 | It closed 145 points up at $1.4555 . |
18 | It closed 30.5 points down at 2,281.6 , its lowest level for ten weeks . |
19 | If you do n't want to use the server 's printers , then by telling it so , it leaves that code out of the load procedure as well — all very clever . |
20 | Yeah but , I think if you straighten lines and mess around with them too much it leaves little bits in underneath the other one . |
21 | So powerful is that consideration , it is argued , that it lifts this case out of the ordinary Cyanamid considerations ( see American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 ) , in which the concern of the court is to preserve the subject matter and accept the risk that if the court should refuse the child may die before final decision , as a result of an intervening choking fit from which only ventilation could save him . |