Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 2 | It is wrong ; it evokes a false conceptual model . |
| 3 | If you are working with a rubber solution glue , you will find it easiest to apply it using a large clean pin or a piece of wire , about 6.75cm ( 2 ½in ) long . |
| 4 | They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques . |
| 5 | Make caramel sauce by cooking butter and sugar in a pan until it turns a rich brown colour . |
| 6 | They raise questions about the notion that it guarantees a common curricular entitlement in so far as they yield teaching strategies which are applied to children classified as having learning difficulties , but not to others . |
| 7 | For some of this distance it parallels the Tizi n'Test road , so travellers are aware of the big river , but nobody had written about its higher reaches . |
| 8 | She scrubbed the old lino floor until it revealed a pleasant geometric pattern of tan , brown and yellow diamonds ; poured bleach , then caustic soda , and then her own physical energy into the stained hideous bath , succeeding in restoring it in several places to snowy whiteness . |
| 9 | On opening , it revealed the accompanying dogeared relics of my happy spell in Nottingham some 40 years ago . |
| 10 | Though distinction has been made on morphology it is also useful from the veterinary standpoint , for it separates the single harmful species , Oslerus osleri , living in the upper air passages , from the relatively harmless species which are retained in the genus Filaroides , and which live in the lung parenchyma . |
| 11 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a Common Open Software Environment desktop toolkit . |
| 12 | It goes a steady eighty miles an hour right . |
| 13 | It receives a substantial recurrent grant from the University , which covers its operational overheads . |
| 14 | A section of the crowd turned events when it attacked the private Catholic chapels of several embassies . |
| 15 | This behaviour is typical of the several meals we have investigated using scintigraphic techniques , and shows that it represents a physiological relevant test meal . |
| 16 | Instead , it represents a small forgotten corner of Czech territory . |
| 17 | Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years . |
| 18 | It represents a direct divine revelation that delivers a capacity for understanding beyond the parameters of normal discourse . |
| 19 | It represents the only available medium whereby effect can be given to the instinctive need to control its progress that mankind seeks . |
| 20 | The Histories is particularly relevant today because it represents the common discursive origin of historiography , sociology , anthropology , ethnography , and prose fiction . |
| 21 | It displays the classic erosional features of limestone areas , and because of the pioneer work of the Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić ( 1865–1927 ) , the Slavonic terminology which he devised is still used by geomorphologists throughout the world to describe limestone scenery . |
| 22 | The group 's shares fell 5.6 per cent after it announced a revised estimated cost for the Channel tunnel project . |
| 23 | ‘ It slows the autonomic nervous system to the barest limit of operation , but does n't affect the higher brain functions . |
| 24 | It involves a national postal survey of the election agents of major parties in the 1992 general election and interviews with the national and regional officials of the parties who are responsible for organising on-the-ground campaigning . |
| 25 | It involves the whole political economy of modern agriculture — and that includes consumers and politicians as well as producers . |
| 26 | It involves an arduous ten kilometre run preceded by a long assault course , against the clock , finishing with a shoot on the firing range . |
| 27 | It became a private limited company , continuing as Stanley Gibbons Ltd. , and he remained chairman until his death . |
| 28 | Although the crossbow is known to have existed as early as the fourth century , its main use was as a hunting weapon and it was not until the latter part of the twelfth century that it became a major military weapon . |
| 29 | The chief designer objected strenuously until the move was found to be successful , when it became a long-cherished personal proposal previously vetoed by management . |
| 30 | The chief designer objected strenuously until the move was found to be successful , when it became a long-cherished personal proposal previously vetoed by management . |