Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While acknowledging that Sun has a ‘ big PR problem , ’ it thinks the few cranky customers threatening to jump to Hewlett-Packard Co do n't represent a trend . |
| 2 | They say it made a few other people happy as well … |
| 3 | ‘ It needs a few more minutes , so I think I 'll go upstairs , ’ she announced , throwing Luke a cool glance . |
| 4 | The family is a basic social grouping , and it has an all pervading influence over its members . |
| 5 | Though the Sahara is often monochrome and denuded , it has the same topographical shape , river beds , mountains and plains as when it was fertile . |
| 6 | It has the same timesaving benefit as e-mail in that one message can reach any number of receivers simultaneously . |
| 7 | The Sahara is a new desert , and , other than water , it has the same geographical features as other major land masses . |
| 8 | It has the same excellent graphics and takes place in the Castle Wolfenstein where you must find the spear of destiny , killing the guards along the way . |
| 9 | It has the same monumental simplicity as well as the fine proportions of the Ypres Cloth Hall ( 500 ) . |
| 10 | In itself , the cinema-test technique is as good — or bad — as folder testing for press ads : it has the same clear limitations . |
| 11 | It has the same written compass as the standard instrument but it sounds a minor third higher . |
| 12 | It has the same written compass as the standard clarinet but sounds a major sixth lower . |
| 13 | According to the unions , however , it contains a few minor strings , but nothing like the substantial changes in working practices being asked for nationally by the employers . |
| 14 | Milupa , maker of the newly-introduced Aptamil with Milupan — recommended by the professor — claims it contains the same fatty acids that occur naturally in breast milk and which are crucial to the development of the baby 's brain . |
| 15 | It Germanised the few Polish street , town and place names , undertook propagandist ‘ research work ’ on historical subjects , supervised the Germanising of family names among those Poles who decided to take the plunge into German identity , took down Polish-language warning notices about venereal diseases from public toilets and instituted a system of bonuses for all teachers and civil servants prepared to move and settle in the eastern provinces . |
| 16 | It shows the same throw-away attitude to human life which animates abortionism and the practice of sedating new-born handicapped children to death ’ . |
| 17 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
| 18 | Though he may say things to them that have no exact parallels in Scripture , his word does not contradict Scripture , neither does it have the same normative quality . |
| 19 | It repeated the same three-note phrase over and over , and Montaine caught the little tune and sang it back . ’ |
| 20 | With its varnished mahogany and gleaming brasswork fuselage it managed a few erratic hops but never got off the ground ! |
| 21 | It had the same dark hair , the same white skin and the same extraordinarily inviting eyes . |
| 22 | It retains the same numerical value ( while changing its sign ) if the other category in a dichotomy is chosen as the base for comparison . |
| 23 | It does the same tedious things that all the other babies do , but it manages to do them — uniquely — ’ She laughed with them , at herself . |
| 24 | In the other it ran a few hundred yards to a high chain-link fence with a locked gate , and then on to another distant cluster of lights , the harbour buildings . |
| 25 | Not only does it draw from what Pollitt ( 1986a , p. 159 ) describes as the ‘ belief-system of the incoming Conservative government of 1979 ’ — the crusade against bureaucratic waste , belief in the superiority of private sector managerial techniques and drive towards increased value for money — but it shares the same ideological roots as privatization and contracting out . |
| 26 | Like compadre it carries the same moral connotations of diffuse , enduring obligation and the same quality of masking a hierarchical relationship in the mutuality of kinship relations . |
| 27 | Procedurally speaking , this is not an aggravated assault , since it carries the same maximum penalty as common assault ( six months ' imprisonment ) and is also triable summarily only . |
| 28 | Indeed , a kind of inertia may be present whereby the genetic constitution of a species prevents it following the same adaptive route in relation to a common ecology as other species may show . |
| 29 | But it makes no such specific point about assessed needs . |