Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Save any vegetable water and use it to whip up a healthy cocktail or as a basis for gravy . |
| 2 | It supplies about a hundred pubs , and three large hotels in Skegness . |
| 3 | It tore past me , and I suddenly knew : the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul . |
| 4 | ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’ |
| 5 | But there is more meaning in the word slum than simply a foul street or yard : it denotes also a certain quality of housing . |
| 6 | It turns out a healthy bhp ( or bhp with an intercooler in the up-market TDS models ) . |
| 7 | ‘ … originally the ego includes everything , later it separates off an external world from itself ’ . |
| 8 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 9 | If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score . |
| 10 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 11 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 12 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 13 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 14 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 15 | But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East . |
| 16 | He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles . |
| 17 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 18 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 19 | With the DES having to settle for this , and with the Diploma being seen in higher education as merely equivalent to the first two years of a degree programme , it became not an alternative track in higher education , but an ambiguous poor relation to the degree . |
| 20 | It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion . |
| 21 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 22 | It offers not a concrete image of history but an abstract schema of men making history of such a kind that it can manifest itself in the trend of their lives as a synchronic totality . |
| 23 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 24 | The government had promised a White Paper on inner cities , but in March 1988 it produced instead a thirty-two page glossy colour brochure , Action for Cities , and twelve separate press releases . |
| 25 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 26 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 27 | You let them play against one another and sometimes you transfer a player from one club to another , so that it builds up a mutual admiration society . |
| 28 | It let out a long clang . |
| 29 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 30 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |