Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the , th the end of chapter nineteen it says all the city was stirred up because of them . |
| 2 | Thus although there was no significant relationship between normality and P(A) from Study 3 it seems advisable to see whether this is also the case using normality ratings taken from the Groeger and Chapman study . |
| 3 | The Trust has already obtained such permission once , when in February 1986 it divested some 21 per cent of its holding in Wellcome . |
| 4 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 5 | On May 24th it became clear that America has won the contest hands down . |
| 6 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
| 7 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 8 | In July 1939 it seemed clear to me that war was inevitable . |
| 9 | In January 1990 it became clear that donor countries were by threatening to cut the size of their aid programmes , placing pressure on the Sri Lankan government for an improvement in the country 's human rights record . |
| 10 | In January 1990 it included 5,953 names , of whom 4,141 were men . |
| 11 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | For 20 years after World War Two it seemed possible that the dog eat dog ‘ survival of the fittest ’ brand of free market capitalism had been supplanted by a social contract between employers and workers , with only occasional mediation by the state . |
| 13 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 14 | JFK is superbly made : at over three hours long it seems short . |
| 15 | From Deuteronomy 1:19–25 it seems plain that Moses intended to go straight on into the promised land at this point ; it was the people 's suggestion that they should send spies ahead . |
| 16 | From Feb. 4 it heard considerable evidence confirming the existence of a " third force " involving members of the security forces who had provoked township violence . |
| 17 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 18 | As the first round of the lower-level negotiations closed on Feb. 28 it became clear that these and other technical issues were still unresolved , and a second round of negotiations was due to commence in Budapest , Hungary , on April 23 . |
| 19 | On 31 August 1948 it seemed certain that another glorious Hollywood career was about to be poured down the drain when Robert Mitchum was arrested for smoking marijuana . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |
| 21 | Just wanted to point out , Phil , last year we , we had savings on erm , the teen care phase of a hundred and seventy thousand and this , on er , reference number seventeen it shows fifty thousand , er , what do you include the whole of that to casualties together ? |
| 22 | From the information available it seems likely that the total winter population of the county now rarely exceeds 4,000 birds . |
| 23 | Fourth , structure ( 47 ) for the clausal adjective follows just the same general intensional pattern as will be needed for sentences which contain not an adjective but a ( non-finite ) verb phrase : ( 61 ) Leonard proved this theorem to rival the Nomination theorem in its scope Atkins will guarantee her picture to have fetched $100,000 at its last sale 4.7 It seems permissible to agree , in this case , that we do have good grounds for accepting that the adjectives are understood as part of a structure felt to be a clause , of which the preceding noun phrase would be the subject . |
| 24 | On March 11th it named 35 people who , it said , had probably been murdered by ‘ government forces ’ since November 1988 . |
| 25 | From 2 June 1832–1845 it carried 200,000 to 300,000 passengers per year — more passengers per mile than the Liverpool and Manchester railway . |
| 26 | When war again broke out with France in June 1778 it proved difficult to scrape together 21 ships of the line ready for sea , in spite of a nominal strength of 199 first , second or third rates . |
| 27 | Right , later on it describes in enormous detail how the president is chosen and the electoral system and then under section two it gives several specific powers that the president has and I would like at least one contribution from this packed assembly here . |