Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It operated a large tramway system in North-West London , with over three hundred cars . |
2 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
3 | To retain its hegemonic dominance it criminalised the inner city uprisings of disenchanted youth , marginalised the youth of the black communities and removed trade-union struggles from the field of civil law to the arena of public disorder . |
4 | SAVE it using a distinctive filename extension such as ‘ . |
5 | If you need a line feed as well , it 's no problem to add it using the Byte-Put function BPUT# . |
6 | It destroys the original key pattern more completely than operations 1 and 2 above , but retains the ability to separate keys that are part of consecutive runs . |
7 | it crosses a one way road , you 're coming up right |
8 | A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream . |
9 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
10 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
11 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
12 | As before , whenever the robot moves its gripper to a new position , it records the joint settings J and the torch 's image coordinates I as a new entry ( I , J ) in its set R. |
13 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
14 | It requested the International Law Commission to prepare a report on which discussions would be based . |
15 | No I , I would think the black and the white were one , but mind you it goes a long blinking way do n't it ? |
16 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
17 | Perhaps more than anything else he did , it represents the real Kenneth Williams . |
18 | It represents the integrated user views of the data and the data relationships in the area chosen . |
19 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
20 | It announced a 27 p.c. fall in profits to £28.4m for 1991 but the first quarter of 1992 showed a ‘ significant recovery ’ . |
21 | Shares in Grampian , which recently failed in its bid for chemist group Macarthy , fell 9 to 163p yesterday after it announced a 15 p.c. drop in pre-tax profit to £11.2m in a tough year for its retail and sports goods activities . |
22 | Meanwhile , it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end . |
23 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
24 | ‘ Hothousing is entirely different because it involves a pushy parent force-feeding their child to be bright — the natural spark is n't necessarily there , ’ says Mr Short . |
25 | Several people said it was , to be sure it was , and did n't it make a plain man flinch . |
26 | Montserrat , part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 to 1956 , when it became a separate United Kingdom Dependent Territory , is governed by a Governor , who presides over an Executive Council and a Legislative Council with seven elected , two official and two nominated members . |
27 | Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 . |
28 | The beef herd proved the breed 's ability to thrive on modest feeding and to give high killing-out percentages in all age groups , and gradually the beef traits increased in importance until it became a single-purpose beef breed . |
29 | It became an essential research tool in the early quest for controlled thermonuclear fusion , helped to clarify the scope of the problem of heating , containing and controlling the deuterium fuel , and set the parameters for the development of the subsequent fusion research programme . |
30 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |