Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It tumbled against the German mark — ending perilously close to its critical floor in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 2 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 3 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 4 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 5 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 6 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 7 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 8 | No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them . |
| 9 | It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems . |
| 10 | It differs from the other consumer goods in the private market in four ways . |
| 11 | This was a large rectangular building in the same tradition as the mortuary houses at Phourni , with a rabbit warren of small chambers inside and a colonnade along the east front ; it differs from the Phourni mortuary houses in having been built all at once . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the body of Boromir establishes a similar transverse thread as it drifts down the Great River , to be seen by Faramir , to have the workmanship on its belt noted and compared with the brooches of Sam and Frodo eight days later . |
| 13 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 14 | She looked at Lily 's shrunk and sanded face , abstracted on some pinnacle of pain , and saw it lanced by the fierce thrust of grass and sucked dry by the brutal assault of flowers . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 16 | It trades in the primal delight which the hills bring ; in their clean innocence and the wonderment they inspire . |
| 17 | Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium . |
| 18 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Gower , who will be in India this winter commentating for BSkyB , last night changed his position on the protest , saying : ‘ I had hoped they might drop this before it got to the full meeting . |
| 20 | That was , that , but it got over the main point of the story . |
| 21 | It rippled in the light breeze like a sea . |
| 22 | The tower was added in 1864 and it passed to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904 . |
| 23 | Formerly a part of Kievan Rus , Belorussia also came under Lithuanian and Polish control until it passed to the Russian Empire under the partitions of the late eighteenth century . |
| 24 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 25 | The wagon broke free from the freight train as it passed through the German town of Northeim . |
| 26 | While it passed over the flat surface four hard pointed styli engraved the foil , sometimes in a continuous line and sometimes with a series of indentations , several times a second , each stylus responding to the quantity of the parameter concerned . |
| 27 | Such ‘ normality ’ can surely apply not just to the sciences , but to any discipline ; it refers to the working acceptance of current assumptions and procedures . |
| 28 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 29 | A Design Change can be aborted using option 2.7.0 , Abort DC , if , for example , it refers to the wrong module or it has been activated through the wrong package . |
| 30 | In the early part of the April issue , it refers to the Veterinary College , but in the later part to the Royal Veterinary College . |