Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It operated a large tramway system in North-West London , with over three hundred cars . |
| 2 | SAVE it using a distinctive filename extension such as ‘ . |
| 3 | it crosses a one way road , you 're coming up right |
| 4 | A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream . |
| 5 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
| 8 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 9 | No I , I would think the black and the white were one , but mind you it goes a long blinking way do n't it ? |
| 10 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
| 11 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 12 | It announced a 27 p.c. fall in profits to £28.4m for 1991 but the first quarter of 1992 showed a ‘ significant recovery ’ . |
| 13 | Shares in Grampian , which recently failed in its bid for chemist group Macarthy , fell 9 to 163p yesterday after it announced a 15 p.c. drop in pre-tax profit to £11.2m in a tough year for its retail and sports goods activities . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end . |
| 15 | ‘ Hothousing is entirely different because it involves a pushy parent force-feeding their child to be bright — the natural spark is n't necessarily there , ’ says Mr Short . |
| 16 | Several people said it was , to be sure it was , and did n't it make a plain man flinch . |
| 17 | Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 . |
| 18 | The beef herd proved the breed 's ability to thrive on modest feeding and to give high killing-out percentages in all age groups , and gradually the beef traits increased in importance until it became a single-purpose beef breed . |
| 19 | It became an essential research tool in the early quest for controlled thermonuclear fusion , helped to clarify the scope of the problem of heating , containing and controlling the deuterium fuel , and set the parameters for the development of the subsequent fusion research programme . |
| 20 | To improve quality it recommended a two-divisional Sunday League , a straight knockout Benson & Hedges competition , and a County Championship programme consisting of 16 three-day and eight four-day matches , the latter to include Sunday play , on uncovered pitches and with bonus points only for bowling . |
| 21 | It offers a striking balance sheet of a decade of conflict in the Third World and locates it within the broader pattern of US-Soviet relations . |
| 22 | It offers a graphical user interface and uses a simplified data-flow diagramming technique to model the parallel interactions . |
| 23 | It offers a discretionary portfolio management service to clients with a minimum of £100,000 to invest . |
| 24 | Second , it offers a massive storage capacity . |
| 25 | It offers an impressive teaching faculty , and at the same time a small college atmosphere . |
| 26 | It drives an elaborate root system deep into the tissues of the unfortunate crab , and sucks nourishment from its body . |
| 27 | It produced a 13-point action plan to reduce the risk of marine pollution . |
| 28 | This scheme — which was widely adopted by colonial administrations right across the continent — killed two birds with one stone : it both raised money and it produced a large labour force which had previously been occupied with growing food for their families . |
| 29 | It produces a good faster-growing cross to a Shorthorn bull ( typically Whitebred or Beef Shorthorn ) . |
| 30 | It produces a slight herringbone effect on the face of the rug and a series of ridges along the back . |