Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 4 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When a graphic is places it has eight handles positioned at the corners and centres of each side for re-sizing and general manipulation . |
| 11 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 15 | In many ways it has considerable weaknesses . |
| 16 | In addition to twenty-five cabins it had three bars , a dining room which measured fifteen by fifty feet , a lounge with a baby grand piano , a writing room , library and sick bay . |
| 17 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 18 | Like most creative processes it requires certain skills and an overall understanding of simple design principles before even partially decent results are achieved . |
| 19 | For higher speeds the load angle d increases until at the highest speeds it approaches 90 degrees . |
| 20 | In a number of cases it ousted earlier conventions , such as the indiction or year of grace ( see later ) . |
| 21 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 22 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 23 | Men it examines feminist attempts to construct gender-fair methods , and the limitations of these attempts . |
| 24 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 25 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 26 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 27 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 28 | For women it has serious consequences because childcare costs are not taken into account . |
| 29 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |
| 30 | Once damp has affected walls it deposits hygroscopic salts on the surface , leaving white salty tidemarks which make detection all the easier . |