Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | IBM Corp also duly announced the 2.1 release of OS/2 yesterday , describing it as an enhanced OS/2 32-bit operating system with support for Windows 3.1 applications , a new 32-bit graphics engine , 256-colour XGA and Super Video Graphics Adaptor device drivers , support for high-speed printers and some CD-ROM drives . |
2 | IBM Corp also duly announced the 2.1 release of OS/2 last week , describing it as an enhanced OS/2 32-bit operating system with support for Windows 3.1 applications , a new 32-bit graphics engine , 256-colour XGA and Super Video Graphics Adaptor device drivers , support for high-speed printers and some CD-ROM drives . |
3 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
4 | ‘ Whit ’ was dropped from the title but people failed to recognise it as the old Bradford Whit Walk , so the event reverted to the original name . |
5 | Although a phenomenal critical and box-office success , it took Stone ten years to raise the finance , eventually obtaining it through the British Hemdale company . |
6 | accenting it like a demented Maurice Chevalier . |
7 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
8 | Fight discrimination by incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law and then extending it into a full UK Bill of Rights . |
9 | We will fight discrimination by incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law and then extending it into a full UK Bill of Rights . |
10 | Morton Pitt added rooms on the south elevation in 1823 when he converted it into the ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL . |
11 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
12 | Try it with the best Agatha Christies . |
13 | Leaving the Chamber now and again to compare it with the live BBC-2 coverage , Mr Brown also looked very telegenic . |
14 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
15 | The Badlands spirit is swelling — catch this wave now , but do n't think about doing it in a Fat Willys T-shirt . |
16 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
17 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
18 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |
19 | The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State . |
20 | The report dated 27th June , 1857 , was forwarded by Buckler to Hall , who said he did not receive it until the following Monday evening , 29th June . |
21 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
22 | BECAUSE the Labour Party does not know how to cope with popular demands in Scotland for devolution or independence , it wanted to dilute the trouble by spreading it over the whole United Kingdom , creating ‘ regional ’ authorities even in England , where there is no popular demand for them whatever . |
23 | Meanwhile SunSelect continues to be skittish on any questions about WABI 's list price , packaging , availability or anything else substantive , ostensibly because of the gala rollout it has planned for May 5 at the 500-seat Great American Music Hall in San Francisco , having ditched plans to hold it at the giant Paramount Theater in Oakland , California . |
24 | The thick coils of hair had been pinned up beneath it by a patient Sister Anne , who sighed as she went about her task . |