Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It features good food at exceptionally low prices . |
4 | The tap could be regulated so that the water flowing from it filled another tank in exactly twenty-four hours , while raising a float inside the tank a fixed distance . |
5 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
6 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
7 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
8 | It introduces molecular biology from both the biochemical and genetic viewpoint , assuming little prior knowledge . |
9 | It requires considerable commitment by already hard-pressed teachers , and considerable organizational skill by the management team , to ensure that such issues are truly taken on board , and do not somehow fall down the cracks between more clearly defined and familiar roles . |
10 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
11 | As Booker Noe Jr , the master distiller at Jim Beam , puts it : ‘ It takes good Bourbon at least four years to get to know the inside of the barrel . ’ |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | Deeply embedded in the local population and the majority of the labour leadership , it influenced political strategy on all important issues ( see Bush 1984 for most of the next two paragraphs ) . |
14 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
15 | And although the proposal for a BPS women 's section was opposed by the women on the BPS Council , it had strong support among less powerful female psychologists , and students . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It provides comprehensive coverage of practically every variable involved in the sport , and it makes the extraction of extensive statistics a simple matter . |
18 | 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 . |