Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Although it impressed both Cicero ( 106–43 BC ) and Virgil ( 70–19 BC ; ) , the Epicureanism on which it was based made little impression on the Romans , except for its hedonistic aspect .
2 Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be .
3 Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing .
4 That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state .
5 What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought .
6 Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year .
7 Shamrocks coach Peter Murphy has also named his panel for the series , and it includes eight Ulster players — three from Queen 's , two each from Banbridge and Cookstown , and one from Lisnagarvey .
8 After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) .
9 On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve .
10 The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years .
11 There 's a follow-up series on a Sunday evening now called king of something , king of ca n't think of the name , ca n't remember the name of it but it starts this Sunday evening at nine o'clock
12 Because it owns First New Hampshire Bank , Bank of Ireland took a bath in New England , America 's most depressed banking market .
13 details of any SPRs to which the SSR responds and whether it closes these SPRs or just replies to them .
14 The VPC may make an announcement on the proposal when it meets next Thursday .
15 The BMA 's understanding when it left last Wednesday 's talks , he said , was that that no longer applied .
16 She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing .
17 Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts .
18 When it opens next May , The Oxfordshire Golf Club will have 600 or 700 members .
19 Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year .
20 Any festival would be proud of a comment such as that above , showing as it does that Nikolai Demidenko 's first great success in the West was with us .
21 It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity .
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