Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sourced in Fortran it contains several of the features listed above . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | And if this water then comes into contact with air from a cave passage it releases some of the carbon dioxide gas contained within it . |
| 5 | The policies of the ILP had lost it much support but in its opposition to the war and to conscription it regained some of its influence on the Left . |
| 6 | After four days it acquitted three of the defendants on all charges , and acquitted Powell — who had delivered most of the blows — on all but one minor count upon which the jury remained undecided . |
| 7 | Lesotho is one of the poorest countries in the world , surrounded by South Africa it has few of its own resources . |
| 8 | Fighting continued on July 3 , but the army had clearly gained the upper hand and by the end of the day it controlled most of the area surrounding the two camps . |
| 9 | And in the boot it had one of these things . |
| 10 | Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field . |
| 11 | For a while it preserved some of its glory in South Park as the rare postcard ( borrowed from the collection in the Bygones shop in McMullen Road ) shows . |
| 12 | And he said Eventually with ropes and various other tackle it took seven of them to lift the piano back up again out of the gap that it had produced in the stairs and get it up the stairs . |
| 13 | News at Ten may have been ahead of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News in the ratings but last night it seemed unsure of what it was trying to do . |
| 14 | This month it publishes Elric of Melniboné ( £10.99 ) , which has excellent cover art ; the ensuring months will see further volumes . |
| 15 | In a sense it reflects one of the themes of my novels : the mingling of the present and past and the ways the boundaries of time can seem strangely impermanent . |
| 16 | As well as an overwhelming majority in the Regional parliament it controls most of the municipal local authorities . |
| 17 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 18 | After a lot of effort it wriggled most of one arm free . |
| 19 | Last year it derived three-quarters of its turnover from photocopiers and cameras . |
| 20 | As this was a continuous problem it dominates much of the book . |
| 21 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 22 | At the time it seemed one of the better right hands I 've ever thrown — from the shoulder , punching not at but through the target , with half-pivot that threw all my weight behind the blow . |
| 23 | In fact it has three of the blighters , two of which are occupied by a VL-bus ET4000 Super VGA card and a cached IDE host adaptor , the first I 've seen . |
| 24 | In fact it stops short of the edge of the mylar sheet , say on stitch 56 , then set the pattern width dial to 56 . |
| 25 | In six of the survey 's eight categories it took one of the top three places ; it took top place ( see table 3 ) in its ability to attract and retain the ablest employees , its long-term investment value and its community and environmental responsibility . |
| 26 | Jean-Claude had taken me along a lane that struck out towards a château it fell short of reaching . |