Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She released her hair from its restraining band ; it tumbled in heavy red-gold waves past her shoulder-blades , and she shampooed it with her favourite herbal shampoo . |
| 2 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 3 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 4 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 5 | It differs from ordinary hammer drills ( which operate on a ratchet/percussion mechanism ) because it is operated by an electro-pneumatic mechanism . |
| 6 | The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) . |
| 7 | Cunningham said his members are adamant about having input into system software and ensuring that it integrates with other operating environments such as Windows NT , Taligent and OS/2 . |
| 8 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 25 reported that some government officials and members of the armed forces had welcomed the creation of the Forum , provided that it complied with strict government guidelines on political behaviour . |
| 9 | ‘ It goes beyond conventional drug design . |
| 10 | There is a possible solution to this problem , but it goes against standard phoneme theory . |
| 11 | In computing its ACT liability , the company can offset tax credits on dividends it receives from other UK companies ( s 241 ) . |
| 12 | You will find it sold under various brand names . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 14 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 15 | A further merit of the presentation is the help it offers to those company functions whose responsibilities involve risks contingent upon the completion date of an R&D project . |
| 16 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 17 | Rules was decorated like a Victorian library ; it smelled of superior malt whiskies and very old leather . |
| 18 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 19 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 20 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 21 | In Genet 's case it produced among other things Prisoner of Love , a record of the time he spent with the Black Panthers 's in the US and Palestinian soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon . |
| 22 | It fits into standard fireplace alcoves and runs on solid fuel . |
| 23 | Studies of ethnic retailing examine how it fits into overall shopping patterns and its potential for the maintenance of retail centres in inner urban areas . |
| 24 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 25 | Originally at Udimore , it moved to Great Sowdens Wood , Brede , between 1840 and 1845 , then to Aldershaw , Beckley , between 1892 and 1896 . |
| 26 | It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day . |
| 27 | It looks at joint compensation schemes cases in which civil liability principles do not apply . |
| 28 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 29 | Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry . |
| 30 | One which the Act employs in relation to information which can be briefly conveyed , is to require it to appear on all business communications of the company . |