Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her voice came to his ears it denied the ordinariness of her clothes and the simplicity suggested by her powderless face and loose lying hair , for her tone was crisp , each word clear . |
| 2 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 3 | Like higher animals it has a nerve cord , muscles , and a gut , with a brain at the mouth ( hardly a head ) end . |
| 4 | Indeed , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it suffered an almost total collapse because of the imposition of a tax levied according to the value of goods advertised . |
| 5 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 6 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 7 | Apart from its legs it resembled an old fashioned typewriter with a carriage and Qwerty keyboard . |
| 8 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 9 | When the pressure is expressed in atmospheres , the value of R is given by In SI units it becomes The general gas law for one mole of gas can now be expressed as where is the volume of one mole of the gas . |
| 10 | Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues . |
| 11 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 12 | A complete microcomputer system will generally comprise : i ) the computer/processor itself , with a large amount of memory a workspace for storing instructions and data ; ii ) a screen and keyboard ; iii ) probably a printer ; iv ) some kind of external storage device — usually disk drives There is one major difference between microcomputers and other larger computers It concerns the way in which information is stored by the computer . |
| 13 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 14 | In other words it denoted the duly consecrated and divinely endorsed king . |
| 15 | In other words it handles the conceptual processes . |
| 16 | In other words it represents the square root of 2 — the problem that so worried the Greeks because its answer was an irrational number ! |
| 17 | In other words it provides the context , but the actual shape and form of local politics is the outcome of a whole number of processes operating at both the local and the national level . |
| 18 | In other words it leaves the format open to the department concerned ? |
| 19 | as Cybil mentioned you know I mean if if we want to criticise your first ten words it comes a bit hard up to five thousand you know . |
| 20 | In other words it places a ceiling above which such a pupil is prevented from rising . |
| 21 | The intellectual case for disposal is fine and if a Government take an intelligent view about the need to buy new pictures it poses no danger . |
| 22 | She said if I used Head and Shoulders now on this it would revert back because it has such a sa a strong P H balance in Head and Shoulders it has the same effect as reversing it . |
| 23 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 24 | For both parties it monitors the number of users logged into software , how often its used and reports back licence infringements . |
| 25 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 26 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 27 | Apart from these demographic characteristics of informal care-giving , in other important respects it remains an issue of central importance to women . |
| 28 | In some respects it resembles the wartime leadership style of Lloyd George ( 1916 — 22 ) and Winston Churchill ( 1940 — 5 ) . |
| 29 | In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere . |
| 30 | But ICI reckons that in a number of key areas it has the edge over the competition . |