Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this it followed that kingship , like fatherhood , was a divine institution to which resistance was not merely impolitic but sinful . |
| 2 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 3 | To do this it uses raw materials that are drifting around in the cell , being , very probably , the products of other protein machines . |
| 4 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid it looks that way . |
| 7 | As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions . |
| 8 | As such it means that vigilante heroes , no matter how good , are not the stuff of which Christians are made . |
| 9 | As such it provided further evidence of a more flexible North Korean foreign policy arising in response to the momentous changes in Eastern Europe , and to South Korea 's recent successes in establishing relations with socialist countries . |
| 10 | In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers . |
| 11 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 12 | Right , you 've got a garden hose running off your mains as well using , say , twe I do n't know how much it uses twenty gallons a minute , something like that . |
| 13 | Yeah but , I think if you straighten lines and mess around with them too much it leaves little bits in underneath the other one . |
| 14 | If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 17 | Are you sure it says one point five quarts ? |
| 18 | The old practical experience is still the best advice : leave a good clear inch ( 2.5cm ) or more between bud and soil when planting , and make quite sure it stays that way , especially when mulching later . |
| 19 | We must make sure it stays that way , " says Dr Simon Lyster , WWF 's Senior Conservation Officer . |
| 20 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 21 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 22 | In 1971–79 it approved financial assistance amounting to £87.5 million ( at 1979 prices ) for the Highlands and Islands as a whole , of which £52.2 million for loans and shares ( including projects directly administered by the Board ) and £35.4 million grants ( see Appendix 3 ) . |
| 23 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 24 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
| 25 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Her scream rang back to her in a thundering descant whose bass-line was so deep it vibrated each organ of her body and she was sick . |
| 28 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 29 | It is the same ball game and , and as far as I , as far as I 'm concerned it makes more sense |
| 30 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |