Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Montserrat , part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 to 1956 , when it became a separate United Kingdom Dependent Territory , is governed by a Governor , who presides over an Executive Council and a Legislative Council with seven elected , two official and two nominated members . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It reported a strong Serb artillery attack on Zadar and showed footage of residents running for shelter in the city , situated just outside Serb-held enclave of Krajina. — AP and Reuter |
4 | Arnet Corp , Nashville , Tennessee , has signed Tech Data Inc to distribute its fax and I/O boards in the US : it has a new X-Windows facsimile viewer programme for Intel iAPX-86 Unix systems : prices start at $1,300 . |
5 | Ilmor 's Mario Ilien responded to the apparent inconsistency of these threats by pointing out that Fiat did not appear to be included in the ban — even though it has an official Alfa Romeo CART team , operated by Patrick Racing , competing in the Surfers event . |
6 | I 'll pass on this one and leave interested parties to contact John Watson , though I guess it 's worth adding that NME 's ‘ Dancing Master ’ cassette is now a collector 's item mainly because it contains a live U2 cut , ‘ An Cut Dubh ’ , recorded in March , 1981 and unavailable on an authorised recording . |
7 | It seemed a certain ANC lawyer down in Durban named Griffiths Mxenge was giving trouble . |
8 | There is an interesting story in Fielding 's Memories of Hailing of a farmer and Ms dog , first published in 1842 , it concerns a certain Mr Henry Hawkes , farmer of Halling : |
9 | It includes a 386 SX PC , Windows 3.0 and MS-DOS 4.01 ready-loaded , a mouse , laser-quality printer plus your choice of applications software . |
10 | It includes a multi-threaded NFS file system , NIS+ naming service , a transport-independent remote procedure call for network-independent distributed applications and Kerebos and DEC support for enhanced network security . |
11 | The more things change , the more they stay the same : taking a leaf from our own book , InformationWeek says it procured an internal IBM memo written June 26 by the director of advanced workstations and AIX systems Jeff Mason telling staffers not to push System/3x users to the RS/6000 , which he himself is responsible for , for fear of undercutting sales of the company 's highly profitable higher margin AS/400s . |
12 | This was the theory that it kept a Long Kesh compound filled with loyalists as a propaganda exercise to impress observers outside Ulster that it was acting impartially towards both the British loyalist and the Irish republican community . |
13 | Either it permits an obdurate East Berlin leadership to continue , at the risk of deeper disaffection among the population and growing isolation among its allies , or it encourages reform , and risks destroying the fragile foundations of East German statehood entirely . |
14 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
15 | It had a 6.8 Chrysler engine , an aluminium body , and he drove it very fast . |
16 | Like many other aspects of Nez Perce design , it demonstrates a strong Crow influence |