Example sentences of "of [pron] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the centre of them it has a horny beak , shaped like that of a parrot , capable of delivering a shell-cracking lethal bite . |
| 2 | The noises made when an Englishman a Frenchman and a German read aloud ‘ 2 + 2 = 4 ’ are different , but to all of them it means the same . |
| 3 | The majority are now unemployed , resources are few , but they can manage 50p a head for the garden , and for many of them it provides the only pleasure they have in life . |
| 4 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 5 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
| 6 | The Tunisian General Workers ' Union ( UGTT ) held a two-day session in April 1989 at the end of which it elected a new 13-member executive bureau with Ali Sabahni as new secretary-general . |
| 7 | The Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , involving a 20-kilometre diversion of the Danube along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary , was to have been bilateral venture , but Hungary withdrew in 1989 because of what it considered the unjustifiable environment effect , including the pollution of drinking water and destruction of wetlands . |