Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather resembles a Victorian village school in outline ( or perhaps Victorian village schools resemble it ! ) , with its steep roof and dormer windows looking like belfries ; you fully expect to see a vicarage and church in the same style hovering nearby . |
| 2 | It rarely pushed a non-paying customer into bankruptcy . |
| 3 | Public ownership of development land puts control of our scarcest resource in the hands of the community , and enables it thereby to take an overall perspective . |
| 4 | But once one team has started to dominate the gene pool of a species it thereby has an automatic advantage . |
| 5 | This questionnaire , the driver behaviour questionnaire ( DBQ ) , was designed particularly to look at driving errors from the type of perspective Reason has adopted elsewhere ( e.g. Reason , 1984 , 1990 ; Reason & Mycielska , 1982 ) , however , it additionally provides an important insight into the frequency of various types of memory failure in driving . |
| 6 | Sodomy was associated with witches , demons , werewolves , basilisks , foreigners , and ( of course ) papists ; and it apparently signified a wide range of practices including prostitution , under-age sex , coitus interruptus , and female transvestism . |
| 7 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 8 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 10 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 11 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 12 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 13 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 14 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 15 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 16 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 17 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 18 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 19 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 20 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 21 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 22 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 23 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 24 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 25 | Where the promise is the ‘ best evidence ’ it only expresses an implied promise ( implied in the request ) . |
| 26 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 27 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 28 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 29 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 30 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |