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 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 .
3 SAVE it using a distinctive filename extension such as ‘ .
4 If you need a line feed as well , it 's no problem to add it using the Byte-Put function BPUT# .
5 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 .
6 A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream .
7 It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 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.
11 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 .
12 It requested the International Law Commission to prepare a report on which discussions would be based .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 Perhaps more than anything else he did , it represents the real Kenneth Williams .
16 It represents the integrated user views of the data and the data relationships in the area chosen .
17 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 .
18 Meanwhile , it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end .
19 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 .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 Several people said it was , to be sure it was , and did n't it make a plain man flinch .
22 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 .
23 Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray .
27 To improve quality it recommended a two-divisional Sunday League , a straight knockout Benson & Hedges competition , and a County Championship programme consisting of 16 three-day and eight four-day matches , the latter to include Sunday play , on uncovered pitches and with bonus points only for bowling .
28 With regard to the fifteen inch speaker , Larry Hartke has stated that it offers no real performance advantages over Hartke 's renowned tens , but has been introduced to satisfy a specific demand .
29 It offers a striking balance sheet of a decade of conflict in the Third World and locates it within the broader pattern of US-Soviet relations .
30 It offers a graphical user interface and uses a simplified data-flow diagramming technique to model the parallel interactions .
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