Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 2 | The board says it needs such a store in any case in the 1990s because there may be a shortage of reprocessing capacity at British Nuclear Fuels ' Sellafield plant ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 289 ) . |
| 3 | The verb to love is difficult to define as it covers such a range of emotion . |
| 4 | It is a singularity of the book that it contains such a wealth of excellent and dramatic illustrations and deals with such titanic forces and events , but written in such a flat style . |
| 5 | then it went down to seven , fifty , now it 's six fifty it looking good a nick in , he 'd be lucky to get five I would have thought is there anyone you want a bit of crystal for ? |
| 6 | The disease is growing in importance as the population of many western countries ages : it kills 120,000 a year in the USA . |
| 7 | It seemed such a waste to be driving back to England and leaving it all behind . |
| 8 | But it seemed such a peach of a way out of trouble . |
| 9 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 10 | Either this plaster board holes or whatever the house well the trouble is it costs such a lot of money |
| 11 | And it seems such a shame after all , yes . |
| 12 | It meant such a transformation in his life , a whole new community and way of living . " |
| 13 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 14 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 15 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 16 | Nor did it mean such a thing to any of the other administrators prominently associated with it . |
| 17 | I can never see why people refuse to give autographs , for example — it puts such a dampener on things . |
| 18 | it considers such an education to be the greatest safeguard against the dangerous growth of State power , to be indispensable for the preservation of an effective democracy and to be the one , moreover , which can only be the province of a voluntary independent movement ; |
| 19 | It had half a squadron of tanks embarked and there was another half squadron stockpiled in Kuwait itself . |
| 20 | It carries such a weight of ideology , however , that there is great room for misunderstanding . |
| 21 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 22 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 23 | Absolutely it makes such a lot of difference that 's right , yes |
| 24 | It makes meaningful an analysis of the level ( or levels ) of ideology and relates it in a non-reductive way to the economic base — the mode of production . |