Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination . |
| 2 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 3 | Sun will also be offering Viking versions of the Galaxy 630MP , 670MP and 690MP multi-processors it introduced this winter , configured with one to four processors . |
| 4 | However , USL finds the royalties it pays third parties for using their technology , particularly those sent to Microsoft Corp for its Xenix functionality and Sun Microsystems Inc for its BSD functionality , on the increase and likely to rise further . |
| 5 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 6 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 7 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 8 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 9 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 10 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 11 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 12 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | In common with these base emotions it receives general condemnation as an anti-social force which , by its very nature , is inherently immoral and despicable . |
| 14 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 15 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 16 | By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both . |
| 17 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 18 | AS Lyles customer base grows to include an ever increasing number of independent retailers it places increasing marketing emphasis on their point of sale material . |
| 19 | When a graphic is places it has eight handles positioned at the corners and centres of each side for re-sizing and general manipulation . |
| 20 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 21 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 22 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 23 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 24 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 25 | Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children . |
| 26 | Amid talk of rebuilding and reorganising resources it appears suitable material is in short supply . |
| 27 | ‘ For many farmers it spells financial disaster and few of the smaller ones have recovered . |
| 28 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 29 | PagePlus is cheap , and for single-page work like flyers , headed stationary and ads it represents good value — in my judgement , which is based on my experience as well as my prejudices . |
| 30 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |