Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her voice came to his ears it denied the ordinariness of her clothes and the simplicity suggested by her powderless face and loose lying hair , for her tone was crisp , each word clear . |
| 2 | Like higher animals it has a nerve cord , muscles , and a gut , with a brain at the mouth ( hardly a head ) end . |
| 3 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 4 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 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 | A complete microcomputer system will generally comprise : i ) the computer/processor itself , with a large amount of memory a workspace for storing instructions and data ; ii ) a screen and keyboard ; iii ) probably a printer ; iv ) some kind of external storage device — usually disk drives There is one major difference between microcomputers and other larger computers It concerns the way in which information is stored by the computer . |
| 7 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 8 | In other words it provides the context , but the actual shape and form of local politics is the outcome of a whole number of processes operating at both the local and the national level . |
| 9 | In other words it leaves the format open to the department concerned ? |
| 10 | as Cybil mentioned you know I mean if if we want to criticise your first ten words it comes a bit hard up to five thousand you know . |
| 11 | In other words it places a ceiling above which such a pupil is prevented from rising . |
| 12 | The intellectual case for disposal is fine and if a Government take an intelligent view about the need to buy new pictures it poses no danger . |
| 13 | For both parties it monitors the number of users logged into software , how often its used and reports back licence infringements . |
| 14 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 15 | Apart from these demographic characteristics of informal care-giving , in other important respects it remains an issue of central importance to women . |
| 16 | In some respects it resembles the wartime leadership style of Lloyd George ( 1916 — 22 ) and Winston Churchill ( 1940 — 5 ) . |
| 17 | But ICI reckons that in a number of key areas it has the edge over the competition . |
| 18 | Given the amount of calls and the fact that they 're telephoned in different areas it seems a lot of trouble to go through if it was a hoax . |
| 19 | For a bank(s) it reduces the element of interest rate risk associated with fixed rate loans . |
| 20 | For Bolivia and its miners it means the loss of hard fought for democratic rights and freedoms and the emergence of a new era of lawlessness , inequality and poverty . |
| 21 | Ingleborough is a wonderful mountain for the amateur explorer , its surface being perforated by hundreds of holes , some gaping chasms , some mere slits in the ground not easy to locate , and for underground enthusiasts it offers a lifetime of excitement and adventure . |
| 22 | By then introducing smaller helpings of loose feed at regular intervals it keeps the fish interested and , more importantly , it gradually preoccupies them with that particular item of food . |
| 23 | In addition it has snow ( I quote Arnie Wilson ) which at its floor level of 2,494 feet it has no right to expect . |
| 24 | In those early days it seemed the sky was the limit ! |
| 25 | In the old days it needed a team of 20 women to do the equivalent job — and even then they did it less than half as fast . |
| 26 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 27 | With some notable exceptions it assists the process of individual growth and development but does little for collective growth and development . |
| 28 | In many cases , however , despite the existence of general conventions it remains a writer 's personal decision whether to use a comma or not . |
| 29 | When I caught all the balls it made the game a lot more fun for both of us . |
| 30 | ‘ Every six or seven years it overruns the Humboldt . ’ |