Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Over half of that can be eliminated by buying British , so marketing can produce considerable improvement and it takes on a new and dramatic urgency .
2 His North Sea assault gave the environmentalists a powerful and unique spokesman ; it made the government sit up and take notice ; and it speeded up the long and painful process of making the public aware that there was a very real problem to solve , which was going to involve personal sacrifices .
3 It kept out the cold and gave strength and comfort beyond its natural powers .
4 It sets out a comprehensive and coherent range of services for supporting the families of ‘ children in need ’ including ( for the first time ) children with disabilities , children in hospital and even those in independent boarding schools .
5 It works out the same but
6 It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility .
7 So you 're okay with that , ten take away A minus , ten take away A add B will be ten take away A and then take away B. But if we do ten take away like we 've been doing here , A minus B and it comes out the same as this , it 'll be ten take away plus A , just take away A , and then take away minus B. Well taking away a minus B is the same as adding B. Erm do you remember the table ?
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