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

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1 As to how much it costs Davies Brook to produce each bottle of table water , we were told that was confidential information .
2 So it chose John Major to begin the work of reconciliation .
3 So it becomes Z N S O four .
4 2-Dgal very specifically prevents the synthesis of those glycoproteins in which the molecule involves a link between the two sugars galactose and fucose ; thus it blocks fucose incorporation into glycoproteins .
5 The facts that seem to emerge from analysis of the recent controlled studies are : ( a ) pure ethanol given intravenously , orally , or by an intragastric route , in different concentrations does not stimulate gastrin release whether or not it stimulates acid secretion ; ( b ) among the alcoholic beverages beer and wine produce pronounced stimulation of gastrin release whereas whisky , gin , cognac , and vodka do not have any effect on gastrin concentrations .
6 A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition .
7 Two days later it elected Mikhail Gorbachev to that post .
8 She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy .
9 He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales .
10 Overall it lowers life expectancy and among other things increases the risk of high blood pressure , diabetes , heart disease , gallstones and gout .
11 Well it lands sea plane , sea plane .
12 Sunday brunch is one of the great American inventions and here it means Eggs Benedict washed down with a ‘ Mimosa ’ — champagne and fresh Florida orange juice .
13 Its master stroke was its ‘ double cross system ’ , whereby it turned enemy spies into double agents , working for the British and feeding false information back .
14 Rather it reflects Mrs Thatcher 's determination to gain space and capacity to achieve her policy objectives .
15 It is in this layer that historians will discover answers to their key questions : how the firm responds to opportunities and threats ; how it interacts with government , other firms , its employees , and its customers ; how it establishes R&D programs and marketing strategies ; and so on .
16 How it suited Bram Stoker for his Transylvania .
17 Certainly added visual information helps lip-reading , but , since Cued Speech is based on spoken phonemes to which deaf children may not have access , it is difficult to see how it affects language development as a whole .
18 In chapter 5 below , David Howell , his leading backroom boy , describes the work of the Public Sector Research Unit , how it scoured North America for business methods adaptable to Whitehall 's needs and searched for think-tanks to visit .
19 Sometimes it takes people years .
20 At least it forced project officers to consider the role of women .
21 At least it got column inches — the worst reviews for years
22 I am sorry that we have misplaced the Blackpool NDB by .87 of a nautical mile , but we will be correcting it in our free amendment , and at least it gives Mr. Allan something to be caustic about .
23 Instead it chose Lodongiyn Tudev , hardline editor of the party newspaper .
24 The wet cobbles in the mill-yard only needed huddled operatives arriving for an 18-hour shift in their shawls , but instead it got art critics .
25 Instead it promoted free-market conditions which , it was envisaged , would stimulate an increase in opencast output , since it represented a ‘ cheap ’ source of coal whose production was ‘ in the national interest ’ .
26 Rumour of the partnership , to be known as C&M Arts , spread through the art market last autumn , when it purchased Mark Rothko 's ‘ Brown , Black and Blue ’ ( 1958 ) for $1 million at Sotheby 's evening sale on 17 November .
27 And that is when it becomes art history .
28 The strategy of the Bank of England is to bring forward auctions and offers for sale by tender at times when it thinks market demand will be strong and not at times when prices are falling .
29 THE EAST LANCS Railway scored a double this summer when it granted power distributor NORWEB permission to lay a nest of six , 33Kv cables along a part of the ELR right-of-way , then secured a three-week contract to haul some of the materials by rail to and from the construction site .
30 The reason that Xerox finally wants out is not hard to divine : back in 1989 when it created Xerox Desktop Systems Inc , which marketed the Ventura Publisher product , it said that annual business was running at $40m .
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