Example sentences of "[noun prp] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day .
2 To Lucy it looked drab and overdone , lined with cars bumper-to-bumper like every other London street that she 'd seen since she arrived .
3 To the LDDC it seemed apparent that any effective programme for Docklands would need to concentrate on a number of key objectives .
4 The US State Department said on Tuesday it suspected Serbian arms destined for Somalia were on the ship which was apparently heading for Kenya .
5 in Hungary it produced one of the performances , completing five laps in pre-qualifying , the best of which was 23.5secs slower than Thierry Boutsen 's pole winning time .
6 Sourced in Fortran it contains several of the features listed above .
7 Performed in Shiraz it aroused enormous anger and offence .
8 Last May it sold three of its four Ford dealerships to a management team for £6.7m and changed its name from Godfrey Davis ( Holdings ) .
9 On Wednesday 20th May it arrived mid afternoon , the loco returned to Machynlleth , on depot at 17.30 , with the tanks left overnight in Aberystwyth .
10 By using the workload recommendations of the Royal College of Surgeons of England it becomes possible to calculate how the outpatient and operative workload requirements of the population can be met .
11 But if we seek through these texts to understand more about the social and cultural circulations of Renaissance England it becomes problematic .
12 In England it lies concealed behind Tescos and the shopping mall .
13 Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) .
14 In January it opened 15 centres which will up-date teachers ' skills in maths , science and computer education .
15 In December it put another million into the Univel Inc joint venture with Novell Inc , where it has a 45% ownership interest , and committed itself to providing another $4m to fund on-going operations .
16 And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission .
17 The new Government needed strength , for without Austen Chamberlain , Balfour , Birkenhead or Horne it looked weak on paper , and it had to face an immediate general election .
18 Swindon Town are back on the league treadmill at Grimsby tomorrow when the two teams met at the County Ground in November it finished 1-1 .
19 Beneath Sumatra the subduction zone does not exceed a depth of 200 km , but north of Java it reaches 400 km and north of Flores , at the extreme eastern end of the zone of steady-state subduction , it attains a depth of 700 km .
20 Lesotho is one of the poorest countries in the world , surrounded by South Africa it has few of its own resources .
21 I was glad that in the course of the night of 8/9 October it became clear that it would not be necessary to trouble Your Majesty to return to London .
22 Oh Jordan it 's all gone , you can always have another one if you 're still hungry , got some windy there ?
23 Problem solving : Given some image coordinates I , the robot looks up in R for the pair ( I' , J' ) with I' closest to I. It moves all joint angles to J' .
24 In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital .
25 Whereas for John the Kingdom came as a threat to a people who were unprepared , for Jesus it represented good news to those who felt unworthy or excluded .
26 We are not to argue , though , that since ‘ I ’ does not refer to the man René Descartes it has some other , more intangible , thing to refer to .
27 Geach says : ‘ We are not to argue , though , that since ‘ I ’ does not refer to the man René Descartes it has some other , more intangible thing to refer to . ’
28 His precautions were justified , for when he reached Sweden it proved difficult even to find accommodation for his servants .
29 When the Emperor Khai Dinh offered his slim , feminine hand to Joseph it felt limp and damp , and although the American boy murmured his farewell politely in French , the sovereign did n't raise his head to look at him .
30 Hailing from the Swiss Alps it prefers rich soil and full sun .
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