Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 2 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 3 | Now that opposition to the governor 's plan to create the park is growing , it seems likely that , if the Yanomami Park is not created before UNCED , it stands little chance of ever becoming a reality . |
| 4 | BL Additional MS 10289 , which contains a copy of Jouglet , is more interesting in that it shows distinct traces of particularly Norman interest , beginning for instance with a long Roman du Mont St Michel , St Michael 's Mount being situated on the coast of Normandy . |
| 5 | So far as the UK is concerned , the proposed Directive contains little that is new in substance and , indeed , it shows clear signs of actually being based on the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers , the UK rulebook for takeovers . |
| 6 | If Labour can not win when the country is in the deepest recession since the war and the Tories have ditched their greatest electoral asset , can it have any hope of ever again forming a government ? |
| 7 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 8 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 9 | In total , including Turnham Green , it occupies 13,300 acres of mainly flat land on a gentle south-westerly slope down from the hills of Harrow and Highgate — from 36 feet to 15 feet above the ordnance survey datum — with a fine depth of approximately 40 feet of gravel and sand over London clay , topped by fine vegetable mould . |
| 10 | It provides comprehensive coverage of practically every variable involved in the sport , and it makes the extraction of extensive statistics a simple matter . |
| 11 | Not only does this save time in the Commons , it provides another type of less politically charged scrutiny by those who may have a wide range of expertise and experience . |
| 12 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |