Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather resembles a Victorian village school in outline ( or perhaps Victorian village schools resemble it ! ) , with its steep roof and dormer windows looking like belfries ; you fully expect to see a vicarage and church in the same style hovering nearby . |
| 2 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 3 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 4 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 5 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 6 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 7 | A normal two page A4 fax can demand up to 200k and it only requires a moderate amount of activity before faxes are stretching the memory requirements of any system to the limits . |
| 8 | As the moisture content of the wood in an unheated structure may be around 15 per cent , it only requires a small amount of damp in an unventilated corner to get the rot going . |
| 9 | Although it only contains a small number of members , we have here a distinct and interesting adjective type , which among other things strikingly illustrates the unconscious linguistic skill of ordinary speakers ( see also Appendix B Section 5 ) . |
| 10 | You must do this very thoroughly , as the picture will not be as tightly secured against the glass if it only has a free-standing photograph frame backing as opposed to the hardboard backing one uses for normal pictures . |
| 11 | It only needs a voyeuristic archbishop and an alien disguised as Elvis Presley to provide the material for an entire Sunday Sport . |
| 12 | It was said of Brent under the Labour council : ’ If you have a council that is as monumentally incompetent as Brent 's has been in the last few years , it rightly gets a major vote of censure from the public . ’ |
| 13 | It obviously requires a considerable degree of skill , not only in placing the tool into the nest and extracting the termites , but also in terms of selecting or constructing an appropriate tool . |
| 14 | Where written pupil work is produced , it obviously contains a great deal of information ; something can be learnt about the general stage of understanding of the class by looking through such work after the lesson , while more is revealed if it is possible to discuss it with the pupil concerned . |
| 15 | It brilliantly combines a legitimate trepidation about the Nazis with a certain ambivalence ( perhaps typical of those on the bourgeois Left in Britain at the time ) about the Russian bears who may or may not have been rescuing him , resolved in the end by the arrival of the charming governess — " better keep a hold on Nurse , just in case of something worse " ! |
| 16 | The form of the note is not included in the Examples section since it merely requires a straightforward letter informing the acquirer of our involvement . |
| 17 | However , it seems likely that they could have given the 1968 Act a more liberal interpretation since it merely requires a local authority to provide sewerage wherever it can but within the bounds of reason and by no means universally . |
| 18 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 19 | A referential symbol , it might be argued , refers only in virtue of what it means , i.e. it necessarily carries a descriptive content . |
| 20 | This does not produce the same effects as lifting the accelerator altogether ; it just maintains a balanced throttle . |
| 21 | it just gets a wee bit much |
| 22 | ‘ I believe everyone has innate creativity ’ she confided in me , ‘ but with some it just takes a little bit of coaxing before it will surface ’ . |
| 23 | I like it because I 'm out , I think , and I like looking in the shops and sometimes I bump into people I know , and it just makes a little break … |
| 24 | It just shows a different plane . |
| 25 | Classical physics tends to express things in terms of second order differential equations , that is ones involving the rate of change of a rate of change , whilst [ 9 ] is first order — it just incorporates a simple rate of change . |
| 26 | Ken , now the only pilot in the UK checked out to captain the flying-boat , said that after the recent test flights the Sunderland is now ‘ fully serviceable and in really tip-top condition , it just needs a good home where it can be looked after . ’ |
| 27 | At 6,352 yards , par 71 , it already offers a stern test of technique without being physically onerous . |
| 28 | Tandem Computers Inc , Cupertino is moving its Asian headquarters to Singapore from California later this month , specialising in telecommunications , banking and finance ; it already has a joint software company , Twin-Soft Asia Pte Ltd , with Singapore Computer Systems Ltd which it formed last year , and it is planning to launch a screen-based smart telephone that can access host computers using a telephone handset , a small display , a programmable microprocessor and a modem , in Singapore next month . |
| 29 | I can assure my hon. Friend that we shall continue to attach the greatest importance to achieving improved rules and disciplines , as we have throughout , along with better market openings , both of which are of importance to our textile industry , which wants lower tariffs on woollen textiles in the United States of America , where it already has a substantial export trade but where there is great further potential . |
| 30 | That facility will not come into operation until next year , but it already has a full complement of men — about 400 . |