Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It testifies both to a new realism in Moscow 's approach to the country 's profound economic crisis , and acknowledgement by the Western financial community that red-blooded free market therapy can not alone provide the answer . |
| 2 | The next logical step is to look at the idea of Highlander , to see how it operates , and how it differs completely from a conventional school for community organisers . |
| 3 | It differs substantially from a conventional yoghurt in that it is made only from organic milk using traditional methods which do n't adulterate the ‘ whole ’ product . |
| 4 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 5 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 6 | It tastes just like a good cup of tea . |
| 7 | Imagine , first , a horseshoe bat giving out a continuous hum of ultrasound as it flies fast towards a still object , like a tree . |
| 8 | Moreover , as countless makers of this design will confirm , it flies well in a broad range of wind speeds . |
| 9 | QUAYLE Munro , the small Edinburgh merchant bank , is set to become a quoted company following what it described yesterday as a reverse takeover by East of Scotland Industrial Investments , the unquoted investment group managed by the bank , writes BILL MILLAR . |
| 10 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 11 | WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union risked an ‘ inflationary disintegration ’ of its economic reforms unless it moved rapidly to a convertible rouble backed by gold , according to Wayne Angell , a governor of the US Federal Reserve , writes John Lichfield . |
| 12 | It stands independently as a valuable scheme . |
| 13 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 14 | With the wast-level grill , when you slide the grill pan out , it nestles safely into a special recess in the drop-down door . |
| 15 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 16 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 17 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |
| 18 | It looks very like a small gorilla and though it appears to be tailless , like an ape , it is in fact a monkey , closely related to the macaques . |
| 19 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 20 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 21 | In the Weald ( extending into Kent ) the Sussex could thrive on rough or scarce grazing but , put on good pasture , it fattened quickly with a high daily weight gain . |
| 22 | It came again with a great wakening light , |
| 23 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 24 | The road bypasses the viaduct , preferring to cross under the railway at a more orthodox bridge a short distance further on , after which it climbs steadily in a barren landscape to the grassy tableland of Newby Head Moss at an elevation of almost 1400 feet . |
| 25 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 26 | Having decided for themselves that the problem lay in the lack of will and determination on the part of the Indo-Chinese to join whole-heartedly with the French in resisting communism , the US had to obtain assurances from the French that a programme of French government will be developed ; national armies will be organized ; France will despatch sufficient additional armed forces to Indo-China to insure that the restoration of peace and internal security will be accomplished in accordance with the timetable of the overall military plan for Indo-China ( which made it sound more like a military parade than a war and that the French will eliminate their policy of colonialism . |
| 27 | With a creak it opened inwards on a dark hole . |
| 28 | It consisted only of a simple two-storey stone block with an overall shed behind covering two platforms . |
| 29 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 30 | This may not prove to be a serious problem , but having it happen twice in a short period of time makes me wonder . |