Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
| 2 | It imposes legal liabilities on a person who has acted carelessly . |
| 3 | Or , you can simply relax at the hotel as it offers excellent amenities for a comfortable holiday . |
| 4 | It provided acute services for a neighbouring district without a DGH , and this already represented one-quarter of its business . |
| 5 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 6 | When the main ( COM or EXE ) file reaches a stage where it needs additional instructions from a subsidiary file , it calls up that file and runs through those instructions to complete the task . |
| 7 | Camp Chewonki is a great place ; it covers 400 acres on a peninsula which extends into Montsweag Bay , a protected arm of the sea . |
| 8 | Belfast Telegraph Plan 82 could fit the bill because it covers 20 selections with a fine guarantee of at least seven 1-1 draws together if eight of your 20 selections end as 1-1 draws . |
| 9 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 10 | This does not mean that the group is clandestine but rather that it has other characteristics of a conspiracy ; in particular , common purpose and internal communication on significant issues . |
| 11 | The delay has infuriated the RSPB , which believes it has serious implications for a recovery programme to save the species . |
| 12 | It has large capels with a pound sign on one and a dollar sign on the other . |
| 13 | It contains important findings from a longitudinal questionnaire survey of the 1983 cohort of students registered on the CNAA 's DipHE courses . |
| 14 | So long as there is a full right of appeal against a refusal of leave — a right which the present Government sought , at one stage , to abolish — this handicap is acceptable , even though it places public authorities in a more privileged position than the ordinary litigant . |
| 15 | Yes , it uses eight watts against a hundred , well I say probably against seventy five , eight watts instead of seventy five and given us the same amount of light out . |
| 16 | Structure , which can also be opposed to material , is a broader concept than both form , in its traditional sense , and device ; it embraces all aspects of a literary text , from sound to subject matter , and it includes both those which are defamiliarized and those which are not . |
| 17 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 18 | It finances these pensions from a flat-rate weekly poll tax , called a contribution , and a levy on employers per head of employee , with some supplement from general taxation . |
| 19 | Equally , it raises major issues of a different sort for the individuals directly affected . |
| 20 | It includes two nights in a luxury hotel , with breakfast , dinner at one of the capital 's top restaurants — with a chauffeur driven car for the evening thrown in . |
| 21 | It showed some women in a northern English town at the turn of the century ; they were standing under an advertisement for Mazawattee tea and seemed depressed . |
| 22 | It stores still pictures in a way that is very economical of space and can store about 54,000 still pictures per side ( depending on the system ) . |
| 23 | It requires three visits to a hospital after a woman has been accepted as legally entitled to an abortion — which means she must have the agreement of two doctors and ‘ qualify for ’ the abortion only on certain grounds . |
| 24 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 25 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 26 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 27 | It lays two eggs in a scrappy nest made of twigs and grass , and habitually changes to a new colony site each year . |
| 28 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 29 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 30 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |