Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It represents one of his assignations . |
| 2 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 3 | The smell was so bad it made some of his children sick : |
| 4 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is to sublease three buildings with a total of 175,000 square feet , enabling it to consolidate all of its Silicon Valley operations at one contiguous campus in Sunnyvale ; the three buildings formerly housed MIPS Computer Systems Inc and AMD will sublease them from Silicon Graphics Inc , now parent of MIPS . |
| 5 | The nature of the diary is such as to feed twentieth-century nostalgia , and there is no doubt that it owes much of its popularity to this . |
| 6 | Naturally it has some of its stuff running on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcs and Unix SVR4 systems and will be doing more . |
| 7 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 8 | He turned to James in amazement and saw that he was enjoying his surprise , as though it confirmed one of his arguments . |
| 9 | The policies of the ILP had lost it much support but in its opposition to the war and to conscription it regained some of its influence on the Left . |
| 10 | For a while it preserved some of its glory in South Park as the rare postcard ( borrowed from the collection in the Bygones shop in McMullen Road ) shows . |
| 11 | While Amnesty recorded that ANC supporters had also committed abuses , it reserved most of its criticism for state departments . |
| 12 | ‘ If it concerns one of my clients you must appreciate my position is quite clear . ’ |
| 13 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 14 | Television not only gets its news stories in the same way as newspapers , it gets most of its feature stories from the very tabloids it is so fond of attacking . |
| 15 | It subsumes many of our recommendations for literature in our first Report , but does not repeat the list of authors given there nor attempt an equivalent for pupils ages 5 to 16 . |
| 16 | What a terrible indictment on the medical profession if it pillories those of its members who are brave enough to find the research evidence to support what many have suspected but few have challenged . |
| 17 | This is a truly radical development for the church , because it takes much of its thinking from Marxism . |
| 18 | It may well feel that there is sufficient resource and underwriting expertise within NCM already to enable it to convert some of its team onto domestic . |
| 19 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 20 | It lost much of its roof during the great storm of 1987 which devastated large parts of Kent and turned Sevenoaks into Oneoak . |
| 21 | Within the confines of a shorter timescale , it lost much of its effectiveness . |
| 22 | Though it still controlled local government , it lost some of its power of patronage and could no longer direct national policy in favour of its clientele . |
| 23 | Last year it derived three-quarters of its turnover from photocopiers and cameras . |
| 24 | Each student will have their own coursework folder , and in it keep all of their work including the question paper set by the tutor , their answers and a copy of the tutor 's assessment , for each of the five subject areas . |
| 25 | It contained two of his screenplays , Valley of the Stratocasters and , confusingly , Decimator . |
| 26 | It took all of his strength to free the buckled doorway , but eventually it broke free with a protesting groan . |
| 27 | It 's simple and it means most of my clothes mix and match really well . ’ |
| 28 | I get it form most of his kind , who remember that I was once a private investigator , and so to them not far removed for law . |
| 29 | Today it retains much of its charm and is a lively place full of good restaurants , cafés and pubs . |
| 30 | Unless there is some way to block it early on , aluminium has virtually free access into cells — which is where it does most of its damage . |