Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When you create a document in Ventura it has an underlying frame . |
| 3 | Apart from its legs it resembled an old fashioned typewriter with a carriage and Qwerty keyboard . |
| 4 | There is determination to maintain strong links with other countries through a thriving International Office and as a result it plays a leading and responsible role in the global community . |
| 5 | On Afghanistan it welcomed the latest initiative by the UN Secretary General to find a political solution , and supported " the Afghan mujaheddin 's efforts to form a broad-based government " . |
| 6 | In the spring it has a near miraculous effect on snow accumulations . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues . |
| 9 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 10 | In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port . |
| 11 | In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also . |
| 12 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 13 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
| 14 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 15 | Successful living in Los Angeles requires controlling the environment , whereas in Bali it requires a total surrender . |
| 16 | This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory . |
| 17 | In other words it handles the conceptual processes . |
| 18 | In other words it represents the square root of 2 — the problem that so worried the Greeks because its answer was an irrational number ! |
| 19 | When attacking , it protrudes its long snout , and as it pushes it against the flesh of its enemy it fires a small , venom-carrying harpoon — a hollow dart formed from a tooth — that can kill a human being within a few hours . |
| 20 | It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence . |
| 21 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 22 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And on Saturday it hosts the mean , macho and magnificent World Wrestling Federation 's superstars — here for the SummerSlam ‘ 92 spectacular . |
| 25 | After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 28 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 29 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 30 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |