Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like higher animals it has a nerve cord , muscles , and a gut , with a brain at the mouth ( hardly a head ) end . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In other words it places a ceiling above which such a pupil is prevented from rising . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In many cases , however , despite the existence of general conventions it remains a writer 's personal decision whether to use a comma or not . |
| 8 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 9 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 10 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 11 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 12 | Most years it sees a couple of weddings , though Leila White and Tom England had quite a job preparing for their big day . |
| 13 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 14 | In some ways it resembled a flying fox , common throughout Malaysia ; in some ways it resembled a rat , but its easy flight and way of walking proclaimed it a bird . |
| 15 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |
| 16 | In some ways it resembles a barchan ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the arms trail , whereas in a barchan the arms or horns lead : the barchan presents its convex face to the wind , the parabolic dune its concave face . |
| 17 | The council has accused the company of adopting a scorched earth policy in its plan to remove trees it considers a safety hazard |
| 18 | But for the sisters it meant a chance to get to see more of each other . |
| 19 | In monetary terms it made a lot more sense to extend episode numbers within a serial , thereby getting more television hours with fewer changes in location . |
| 20 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 21 | But in class terms it marked a split within the ruling bloc , not the totalizing rupture from without that repealers claimed . |
| 22 | This is usually quite transparent , but at certain pressures it undergoes a sharo ’ Mott transi-Lion ’ to an opaque , pseudometallic state that reflects . |
| 23 | Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not easy playing game after game even for fit players it becomes a chore and you tend to pick up knocks . |
| 25 | Between the wars it provided a market for the growing volume of Treasury bills issued by the government to meet its short-term financing needs . |
| 26 | But when it was rammed down their throats it became a battle , and the manager lost . |
| 27 | In the other cases it played a facilitating rather than a decisive role . |
| 28 | If I show you the general norms it makes a lot more sense . |
| 29 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 30 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |