Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Greece 's have become a lot worse than most other people 's because of a couple of things those centuries it spent under Ottoman rule did to it . |
| 2 | Offices It works in this fashion : If you were working in a suite of offices , you might , if you were so inclined , have one office dedicated to word processing , one for drawing , another for accounting and so on . |
| 3 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 4 | So I 'm sitting and getting worse if I opened my eyes it went like that , the whole fucking sky was going round . |
| 5 | When the above entry is printed out according to the SIL MANUSCRIPT ( MS ) programme it appears like this : Many people will find it preferable to type the words of their dictionary in alphabetical order so that the computer prints them out in alphabetical order without further programming . |
| 6 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 7 | The word was brought west by Xenophon , who introduced it into Greek when describing the fabulous garden built by the Persian Emperor Cyrus at Sardis ; from the Greek paradeisoi it passed into Latin as paradisum ; and hence into Middle English as paradis . |
| 8 | With the recent review of the Carlton combo it seems to many of us out here that you 've started to wake up . |
| 9 | The drop is dramatic : a straight five hundred feet into the torrent below , and as the bridge sways under your weight it feels like several thousand feet more than that . |
| 10 | Every instrument here is adding what weight it has to one of the four component parts of the texture ( i.e. and the tune itself ) . |
| 11 | Because there are so many variables in the equation , it is inevitable that management has some discretion as to how much weight it attaches to any point in a particular case . |
| 12 | I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them . |
| 13 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 14 | Three major weaknesses of the paper are its lack of clarity , its lack of detail and the many opportunities it offers to those who hold information that should be made public , to use various loopholes to avoid so doing . |
| 15 | Partnerships should look at the case for an education service , in terms of the opportunities it presents for sensible planning , provision for population migration and demographic change , best use of scarce and expensive resources , effective curriculum and professional development , smooth transition between the ages and stages of education , and quality education for all those with special educational needs . |
| 16 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 17 | It also has a joint venture with a waste management company , which delivers Crec computers it collects from municipal waste sites and which Crec , in turn , pays to dispose the extracted hazardous materials . |
| 18 | The processor can interpret several elements of the picture at once ; in other words it acts in parallel fashion . |
| 19 | These are too common to be the result of incapacity , and they are furthermore reinforced by the unpredictable but frequent use of the other devices of sound : alliteration in ‘ light laid ’ , ‘ shining shield ’ , ‘ ward all wounds ’ , etc. , alliterative assonance in ‘ sails of silver ’ , ‘ Night of Naught ’ , ‘ sight … he sought ’ and ‘ boat it bore with biting breath ’ . |
| 20 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 21 | But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves . |
| 22 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 23 | Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole . |
| 24 | You also have to think of the effect it has on other people , how er if you just let people get away with it , it does n't mean you hate them , loathe them and damn them but er you 've got to make them realise that for other people , for everybody . |
| 25 | In the time of King Edward it answered for six sulings and now for two and a half , there is arable of seven teams , in demesne , there are three teams and fifteen villians with nine bordari have six teams . |
| 26 | The anecdote is instructive for the light it throws on changing relationships with clinicians . |
| 27 | Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth . |
| 28 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 29 | But it is much more difficult to justify on academic terms an expansion of what I will call ‘ educational exposure ’ ; the development , through extensive first-hand experience , of an understanding of what being a teacher involves , of the demands it makes upon those who teach for month after month , of the stresses and strains ( as well as the joys ) of the classroom . |
| 30 | In its natural habitat it grows in clear , still waters , sometimes in depths where there is strong sunlight penetration and sometimes in dappled shade . |