Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tumbled against the German mark — ending perilously close to its critical floor in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 2 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 3 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 4 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 5 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 6 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 7 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 8 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 9 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 10 | Anyway , his standing in society was far too high to have it blackened by the indiscreet infidelities of a wife bored with her husband 's success . |
| 11 | and then thump it with a huge mallet and it splits along the natural lines of the grain . |
| 12 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 13 | No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them . |
| 14 | It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems . |
| 15 | It differs from the other consumer goods in the private market in four ways . |
| 16 | He also said that he would not undertake to follow best practice while it differs from the operational guidelines . |
| 17 | This was a large rectangular building in the same tradition as the mortuary houses at Phourni , with a rabbit warren of small chambers inside and a colonnade along the east front ; it differs from the Phourni mortuary houses in having been built all at once . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the body of Boromir establishes a similar transverse thread as it drifts down the Great River , to be seen by Faramir , to have the workmanship on its belt noted and compared with the brooches of Sam and Frodo eight days later . |
| 19 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 20 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 21 | She looked at Lily 's shrunk and sanded face , abstracted on some pinnacle of pain , and saw it lanced by the fierce thrust of grass and sucked dry by the brutal assault of flowers . |
| 22 | Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 24 | It trades in the primal delight which the hills bring ; in their clean innocence and the wonderment they inspire . |
| 25 | Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium . |
| 26 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 27 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Gower , who will be in India this winter commentating for BSkyB , last night changed his position on the protest , saying : ‘ I had hoped they might drop this before it got to the full meeting . |
| 29 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 30 | That was , that , but it got over the main point of the story . |