Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 2 | Does it want some new batteries in ? |
| 3 | It has little other direction in which to go . |
| 4 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 5 | It has another practical benefit in that it is easy to keep clean and to wash . |
| 6 | Since it holds this important role in the written form , it is also used to communicate across local areas and between regions in a spoken form . |
| 7 | And so the year 1798 drew to a close , and with it came another crippling winter in a decade of crippling winters . |
| 8 | The we-group of the Chewong , however , extends into the domains of non-human beings , that is , it includes all those things in the environment such as trees , stones , rivers , mountains , which are supposed to have consciousness — and thus in Chewong parlance are ‘ people ’ ( beri ) , as well as the large number of beings who are said to exist , but who are invisible to the ordinary eye . |
| 9 | It stores this additional information in its own on-board RAM chips , waiting for you to ask for it . |
| 10 | That does n't necessarily mean biggest , although it requires some critical mass in each country , and only in selected industries in each country ’ Carroll said . |
| 11 | You told me to throw it away before but I kept it to put that other mug in it . |
| 12 | It is not as highly structured a programme as microteaching would demand but it applies some microteaching principles in the emphasis placed on the elements of classroom interaction . |
| 13 | It covered some 2,000 establishments in all sectors of the economy . |
| 14 | I do however point out that the passage in question does not in terms refer to any admissions policy which the school or local authority has adopted nor does it indicate any fixed way in which an appeal committee should approach the importance of such admissions policy . |
| 15 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |
| 16 | They have an ingenious device called a " lens ' , whose shape appears to be mathematically calculated so that it bends these silent rays in such a way that there is an exact one-to-one mapping between objects in the world and an " image " on a sheet of cells called the " retina " . |
| 17 | The UN was designed to oversee global peace and security , but how can it fulfill this primary task in the violent post-Cold War era ? asks Paul Wilkinson |
| 18 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 19 | The DUP was formed with the intention of increasing the non-evangelical element in the movement , but it had little initial success in broadening the recruiting base . |
| 20 | He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity . |
| 21 | Maybe it explained all those girls in his past as well . |
| 22 | It claims some 3,000 jobs in construction would reduce to 1,000 full-time jobs when the construction phase is over : the local area has a 30 per cent male unemployment rate . |