Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It supplies about a hundred pubs , and three large hotels in Skegness . |
| 2 | It tore past me , and I suddenly knew : the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul . |
| 3 | But there is more meaning in the word slum than simply a foul street or yard : it denotes also a certain quality of housing . |
| 4 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 5 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 6 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 7 | It represents both the physical mihrab of the mosque and the spiritual archway to Paradise , and is often flanked by the " pillars of wisdom " ( pl. 31 ) . |
| 8 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 9 | But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East . |
| 10 | Thus in Lothian about 250 children — the vast majority not infected with HIV — are likely to suffer the death of one or both parents due to disease related to HIV in the near future ; this figure is probably an underestimate as it represents only the tested population . |
| 11 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 12 | Friuli is a particularly rich site for bird trappers , since it sits aside the main north-south trans-European migratory route . |
| 13 | It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion . |
| 14 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 15 | Losing the left engine is trickier since it drives both the single generator and the sole hydraulic pump . |
| 16 | The scream cam from quite a way away , but it penetrated easily the thick walls of the study . |
| 17 | The government had promised a White Paper on inner cities , but in March 1988 it produced instead a thirty-two page glossy colour brochure , Action for Cities , and twelve separate press releases . |
| 18 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 19 | In practical terms this meant that , say , creating the illusion of a glass of wine was relatively easy , since it involved merely the subtle shifting of light patterns . |
| 20 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 21 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |
| 22 | Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar . |
| 23 | It illustrates clearly the divergent needs of liquidity and profitability that confront most banks . |
| 24 | It is incomplete and it has also no structural significance although it is tempting to describe for example the " springs ' in terms of contractile polymer chains ( entropy springs ) and the " dash-pots ' as descriptive of the motion of chains through holes or barriers to motion caused by adjacent chains . |
| 25 | It has also a certain originality which provides a small surprise at the end of the meal . |
| 26 | A placid and leafy place indeed , except that it has also the local nickname of Enfer des palombes or ‘ The wood pigeons ’ hell' , because nowhere are these migrating birds more vigorously hunted on their autumn flight south than around Sare . |
| 27 | Some might accuse it of looking like a wedding cake , but I would suggest it has just the right amount of decoration . |
| 28 | It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise . |
| 29 | Third largest in terms of oil , it has easily the largest gas resources in the Middle East being second only to the USSR on a world scale . |
| 30 | This project would not have achieved what it has without the professional generosity and sense of professional responsibility of the language and service disciplines . |