Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It supplies about a hundred pubs , and three large hotels in Skegness . |
| 2 | It tore past me , and I suddenly knew : the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul . |
| 3 | But there is more meaning in the word slum than simply a foul street or yard : it denotes also a certain quality of housing . |
| 4 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 5 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 6 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 7 | But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East . |
| 8 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 9 | It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion . |
| 10 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 11 | The government had promised a White Paper on inner cities , but in March 1988 it produced instead a thirty-two page glossy colour brochure , Action for Cities , and twelve separate press releases . |
| 12 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 13 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 14 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |
| 15 | Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar . |
| 16 | It has also a certain originality which provides a small surprise at the end of the meal . |
| 17 | It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise . |
| 18 | It has only a small interest in furniture at present , having built up an enthusiastic stock market following with an unbroken record of sales and profit growth in bathroom and kitchen equipment since its was founded in 1979 . |
| 19 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 20 | Opened up , it contains only a rapid sketch of the artist 's hand holding a supplicatory top hat , above the characteristic signature . |
| 21 | Within the modern academy , English is treated with respect , though those teaching it may feel themselves impaled on the perennial dilemma of making it appear either a soft option or inhumanely technical and jargon-ridden . |
| 22 | So she I think she 's erm , she would n't want it done just a few days before anyway she 'd have |
| 23 | You know , it happens quite a few times , does n't it ? |
| 24 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 25 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 26 | Between these times it shows either a slight rise or a general plateau ( tests of Groups 1 , 2 and 6 ) or a slight decline after a peak at about noon ( Groups 3 , 5 and 7 ) . |
| 27 | Running on paraffin , it costs just a few pence a day to run , and there is sufficient fuel for five to seven days continuous use , whilst radiating 170 BTU 's of heat stored in the 0.5 litre capacity base . |
| 28 | Gestetner made pre-tax profits of £27.2m last year on sales of £900.3m , but the company has since said that trading in Europe has deteriorated and that it sees only a small profit for the half to end-April.Inchcape is buying the shares from Bermudan-registered Chiltern Capital Ltd , quoted in Australia . |
| 29 | A better example is on a small sherd from Colchester but it includes only a single head , in full face view with tentacles like a radiate crown , supported on a thin writhing neck ( fig. 14.32 ) . |
| 30 | It is boring , often done in locations where it is difficult to avoid ‘ bosses ’ , it affords only a limited range of ‘ bluffs ’ or easing techniques , and is looked down upon by regular policemen and women , a view unintentionally reinforced by those sergeants who apologize to regulars when asking them at parade to do sanger duty . |