Example sentences of "it [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
2 | It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon . |
3 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
4 | It retained its old destination boxes and other appointments . |
5 | Which I guess theoretically you can do under Windows but presumably it has its own locking mechanism . |
6 | It has its own diffuser attachment which enables you to dry your hair gently , eliminating the problem of frizz and flyaway hair . |
7 | is running it has its own setup menu |
8 | The base is spared the curse of the ‘ brown-outs ’ familiar in Manila because it has its own power plant . |
9 | It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered . |
10 | It has its own entrance hall which is used for receptions , and also adjacent is The Champagne Room , which can also serve as a pre-function room . |
11 | Although it works nicely with such as Norton Tools Disk Edit , it contains its own defragmentation utility , as Norton 's Calibrate and its ilk do n't like to run with device driven hard disks . |
12 | Showing political savvy , it reduced her six-year prison sentence to a fine of 15,000 rand ( $1,700 ) or one year in prison . |
13 | The bank , which also held its annual meeting yesterday , rejected a shareholders ' demand for it to sell its US-based fund management business , National Securities & Research . |
14 | A bootstrap operation , it attracted its first venture capital in August of 1990 , a $1.2m investment from Sunwestern Investment Group . |
15 | It says its Mature Answer Bases make it possible for anyone to support an ‘ Answer Based product . ’ |
16 | It exemplifies his preferred touch/feel alternative approach to medicine . |
17 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
18 | It concerns my great-aunt Jane Bayles , who was my father 's mother 's sister and lived at Hury at the bottom of the dale . |
19 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
20 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
21 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
22 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
23 | In this sense , the description of themselves as ‘ ordinary ’ was an identity which simultaneously expressed two things : it indicated their own class position , between the extraordinary highly placed and the extraordinarily lowly placed , and at the same time , by its yearning to transcend class identity , it expressed the tensions of that position . |
24 | Not only does it meet his own policy expectations but it does so in language supplied by Mr Greenspan in congressional testimony which would allow Mr Greenspan to run rings around his Administration critics . |
25 | It developed his imaginative skills ad self-confidence and helped him to settle in at school more easily . ’ |
26 | The company 's interest in pictures goes back to 1976 when it established its Fine Art Foundation to sponsor contemporary ( particularly young ) artists . |
27 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
28 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |
29 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |
30 | ‘ It satisfied my old GQ readers , ’ she said . |