Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It got so bad FBI agents had to stay at my house to protect me from religious extremists whipped up by their campaign . ’ |
| 2 | It integrates previously incompatible data systems , improves transmission speeds , ensures that information is quickly available where , when and how it is needed . |
| 3 | As a result of the vast range of clothing and household goods that Savacentre sells , it receives far more customer returns than the average JS branch . |
| 4 | It involves very large client groups ( elderly , physically disabled , and mentally ill people as well as people with learning disabilities ) ; constitutes one of the major tasks of the personal social services ; and it is an arena in which hopes and aspirations have consistently been disappointed ( Walker , 1982 ; Webb and Wistow , 1986 ; Martin , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | In fact , it offers more experimental menu items and store formats than any of its competitors . |
| 6 | That premium should not grow too large lest it bring increasingly intolerable cohabitation rules with it — which is why the basic level of child benefit should be raised first . |
| 7 | When the spaces between the scallops are left plain , it needs very little fabric fullness . |
| 8 | It looks really weird seeing Christmas and it 's hot and they can go swimming and . |
| 9 | The Halifax says it has about 505,000 Tessa account holders , with an average first-year balance of £2,700 , giving a total of around £1.4bn . |
| 10 | Currently , it has about 550,000 motor policies in force ; last year , in terms of written premiums , it wrote £84m , and this year it is looking at £150m-plus . |
| 11 | I think that is why it has so many cinema fans and why the best cinema creators in Spain come from there . |
| 12 | It has only four combat aircraft — armed maritime reconnaissance aircraft — and no armed helicopters . |
| 13 | It has only two EC competitors . |
| 14 | After a period of being grounded on the Shag Rocks , it has now confounded weather experts by drifting west , directly towards the Falklands . |
| 15 | The impact of modern technology is probably of profound importance , providing as it has relatively cheap information storage on film and communication equipment ( video and newspapers ) . |
| 16 | The Amiga also has a Motorola 68000 , 512K , a built-in 3.5 inch disc drive and a mouse , but it has much better colour graphics and sound . |
| 17 | It has very low surface brightness , and is best seen with low powers as an oval blur . |
| 18 | At the time of publication ( 1987 ) it listed almost 300 Holtzapffel lathes still in existence in the world with 20 per cent of them in the United States . |
| 19 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 20 | Run on an open-access basis , it includes very basic literacy/numeracy skills , to 0-level standard . |
| 21 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 22 | It delivers significantly better quality pictures than NTSC with definition somewhere between PAL and HDTV . |
| 23 | Roddy Greig , Manager , Transport and Messenger Services , said , ‘ It takes only seven plastic cups to produce enough material to manufacture a 12-inch ruler . |
| 24 | It takes so many man hours . |
| 25 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
| 26 | The company said it shipped over 90,000 Sparc processors during the quarter , 57,000 of which were systems , the balance being upgrades and multiprocessors . |
| 27 | Compaq Computer Corp says it shipped more 80486SL-based Compaq Conturas in the first month of the product 's availability than any other portable in Compaq 's history . |
| 28 | Love was too complicated an emotion for him ; it required too much staying power . |
| 29 | The mechanisms of the upper atmosphere and the deep sea that cause it to spoil so many Larin Christmas times are still unknown ; but there is beguiling evidence that whenever El Nin-o appears in the Pacific , so the monsoon rains in India are perilously sparse , the winters in the continental USA are unusually harsh , and there is a further episode of drought in that wretched quarter of Africa known as the Sahel . |
| 30 | It brought together key branch members and staff for a lively exchange of HCIMA news and comment . |