Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It testifies both to a new realism in Moscow 's approach to the country 's profound economic crisis , and acknowledgement by the Western financial community that red-blooded free market therapy can not alone provide the answer . |
| 2 | The next logical step is to look at the idea of Highlander , to see how it operates , and how it differs completely from a conventional school for community organisers . |
| 3 | It differs substantially from a conventional yoghurt in that it is made only from organic milk using traditional methods which do n't adulterate the ‘ whole ’ product . |
| 4 | A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach . |
| 5 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 6 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 7 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 8 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 9 | It tastes just like a good cup of tea . |
| 10 | Imagine , first , a horseshoe bat giving out a continuous hum of ultrasound as it flies fast towards a still object , like a tree . |
| 11 | Moreover , as countless makers of this design will confirm , it flies well in a broad range of wind speeds . |
| 12 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 13 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 14 | It stands independently as a valuable scheme . |
| 15 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 16 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 17 | With the wast-level grill , when you slide the grill pan out , it nestles safely into a special recess in the drop-down door . |
| 18 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 19 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 20 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |
| 21 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 22 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 23 | It looks very like a small gorilla and though it appears to be tailless , like an ape , it is in fact a monkey , closely related to the macaques . |
| 24 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 25 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 26 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 27 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 28 | The road bypasses the viaduct , preferring to cross under the railway at a more orthodox bridge a short distance further on , after which it climbs steadily in a barren landscape to the grassy tableland of Newby Head Moss at an elevation of almost 1400 feet . |
| 29 | If it ends up with a segregated system — then so be it ’ . |
| 30 | Change the social or physical conditions in which the animal is growing up and you may find it ends up with a different set of rules for learning . |