Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech . |
| 2 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 3 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 4 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 5 | In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] . |
| 6 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 7 | It is one of the most ancient of dye plants , its use being recorded 2,500 years ago , and it is such a strong dye that it will produce a deep pink-brown without a mordant — with alum and tin it supplies red and red-brown . |
| 8 | With its removeable roof stored in the roof it looked great , but the word from Pininfarina and General Motors Europe was not promising . |
| 9 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 10 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |
| 11 | At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people . |
| 12 | Nobody seems to mind ; as an aberration it rates low , on a level with Christianity or driving carefully . |
| 13 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 14 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 15 | In the New Testament it means total allegiance . |
| 16 | The constant impression given by the Prague School is that the sort of description and analysis they call for is essentially objective and scientific in character , but in practice it seems impossible to exclude a strong element of subjectivity from this kind of structural study . |
| 17 | In practice it seems inevitable that the CCITT will simply respond to the initiatives of the manufacturing giants . |
| 18 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 19 | Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon . |
| 20 | As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals . |
| 21 | To the agriculturist it offers a basic form of protection against urban influences , and for the minerals industry it retains accessible , cheap , and exploitable natural resources . |
| 22 | Whatever the future of the ferry industry it seems clear that the Channel ports are bound to suffer sharp job losses in the short term . |
| 23 | In this light it looked black . |
| 24 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 25 | There 's a definite fashion of yes , yes , the only thing is , is that people are not erm , er religious bound by the fashion , they do n't , sort of say like well I think we 'll have to change our porch light it looks old fashioned compared to the one next door , erm |
| 26 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 27 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |
| 28 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 29 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 30 | The key to the seeding argument is Article 24 of Fifa 's World Cup rule book , which in effect allows it to use whatever criterion it thinks fit when allocating seeds . |