Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As promised last week , there 's also a four-page report on slimming which I 've found really interesting since it involves one of the finalists in our recent 16+ Model Of The Year competition . |
2 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
3 | But as time went on , it became less of a joke . |
4 | It seemed to float above the town , particularly when one approached from the south , from the flats , and as you climbed Steep Hill and came nearer , so it became less of a mirage and more of a stone reality . |
5 | The Barclays Managed Rate Facility gives you the best of both worlds : it offers much of the flexibility of an overdraft both with an interest rate comparable to Money Market rates . |
6 | Nevertheless , to some extent it can be said that it fulfils some of the functions of the preambles in Community texts to which I have just referred . |
7 | in Hungary it produced one of the performances , completing five laps in pre-qualifying , the best of which was 23.5secs slower than Thierry Boutsen 's pole winning time . |
8 | It fits many of the statements of attainment in Science in the National Curriculum : |
9 | Understand what it is we are trying to achieve by cutting off a lot of top growth , and the where , when and how of it lose much of the mystery . |
10 | War was declared in August 1914 but it was not until the following year that it made much of an impression on the affairs of the Union . |
11 | It snatched one of the sticks that Philip was holding and dragged it to the far side of the feeding-place , barking . |
12 | As a baby brother to the all-singing and dancing Publisher 's Paintbrush , it maintained much of the functionality of the more expensive product , but at a vastly reduced cost . |
13 | It incorporates all of the Solaris Workgroup technologies plus advanced system administration , commercial-grade I/O and enterprise-wide installation . |
14 | Moreover , it reported some of the speeches and activities of Nyerere , who led the nationalist party ( TANU ) from its formation in 1954 . |
15 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
16 | I hope you find this useful since it develops some of the issues raised in our initial submission . |
17 | The district council 's public relations manager Chris Trim said the District Commercial Services was separate from the council and run as a public company , although it used some of the council 's facilities such as payroll and computers . |
18 | On the foreign exchange market the pound was stronger in quiet trading against the dollar , it firmed 0.4 of a cent to $1.640 whilst against the Deutschmark it rose to DM2.7568 . |
19 | The above list is by no means exhaustive , but it covers most of the matrix types which arise in the present text . |
20 | For the surgery being considered here , often called ‘ conversion surgery ’ , involves one or more of several procedures which aim to transform as far as is possible the subject 's anatomy so that it approximates that of a member of the preferred sex . |
21 | It has all of the things that you find in other packages — reshaping tools , rotation , reflection , resizing etc. but it also has operations that will combine objects . |
22 | It has all of the facilities you need , and a few nice bells and whistles thrown in . |
23 | In spite of the sharp rise in the costs of doing business in Singapore in the 1980s , many companies are still choosing it as their regional base because of the ease of doing business there : it has one of the world 's most modern infrastructures , a free enterprise system with no foreign ownership restrictions , no exchange controls , few tariff barriers , a highly motivated and skilled workforce and attractive investment incentives . |
24 | It has many of the characteristics of a great ecclesiastical building ; it has vast arches , void spaces , coloured lights , and above all , it has recurrence of ritual . |
25 | In fact it has three of the blighters , two of which are occupied by a VL-bus ET4000 Super VGA card and a cached IDE host adaptor , the first I 've seen . |
26 | The houses and cottages are of brick or half-timbered , and it has more of a feel of the Midlands than of what we imagine as Gloucestershire . |
27 | Carried out every ten years since 1801 , with the exception of 1941 , it has most of the characteristics of the longitudinal survey except , of course , that it is a study of the whole population rather than a sample . |
28 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |
29 | It contains most of the reading passages , together with the pronunciation of all the terms listed in the glossary . |
30 | As her photographs prove , the garden looks attractive and it contains most of the items a conventional garden is supposed to display . |