Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the broad , low , peat-covered plateaux of central and north Lewis is repeated only in central North Uist where it resembles similar extensive , windswept and empty surfaces in mainland Sutherland and Caithness . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was one of the great merits of manufacturing to the early eighteenth-century observer Daniel Defoe that it brought increased employment and greater prosperity to a district compared with those which remained wholly dependent on agriculture . |
| 3 | Jabberwocky is a poem that was made up in Wonderland and it describes some of the wonderful creatures to be seen there . |
| 4 | Although NeXT Computer Inc has stumbled , Data General Corp , which last year signed to resell NeXT boxes , will maintain a relationship with Steve Jobs ' company — it says it was always more interested in the NeXTstep software anyway , and it will market the environment on the 80486 personal computers it buys OEM once it becomes available . |
| 5 | In fact it was already a quality of Britten 's music before Grimes that it said new things with material which , on closer inspection , often turned out to be surprisingly familiar and straightforward . |
| 6 | It has also sought , without much success , a guarantee against predatory pricing by Eurotunnel although it seems clear that the government would not allow the ferries to go bankrupt as the result of such a strategy . |
| 7 | Siemens has always modelled its mainframe business so closely on that if IBM that it seems inevitable that the growing antipathy towards IBM 's mainframes would rub off on Siemens customers even without the prospect of something approaching depression in Germany : the coincidence of the two strongly implies that once the company finally and painfully gets the ravaged Nixdorf side of the house straight , it will have to repeat the process all over again on the Siemens side . |
| 8 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 9 | He was also said to have pledged support for South Korea if it proved necessary to apply for UN sanctions against the North over the issue of nuclear inspections [ see also p. 38818-19 ] . |
| 10 | The Town Development Act , 1952 , did not apply to Scotland and it became necessary to cope with Glasgow 's housing problem by means of a second New Town . |
| 11 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 12 | Bristol Crown Court has heard how Mrs Lorraine Hurkett , 26 , and her daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , died after being struck by Flook 's Vauxhall Nova when it jumped red lights . |
| 13 | This will result in a narrowing of the range of costs which were given by Touche Ross when it costed four alternative options for single-tier councils . |
| 14 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 15 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 16 | ‘ We had looked at the agent in March and it seemed OK , ’ spokesman John Garner says . |
| 17 | He will run at Newbury unless it becomes good to firm or firmer . ’ |
| 18 | As revealed exclusively in TODAY , yesterday , the £100 million contract was awarded to multinational Alcatel after it undercut British firm Westinghouse . |
| 19 | The Russians for their part promised to recognize the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary when it seemed appropriate and Austria agreed not to oppose the union of Bulgaria and eastern Roumelia , if circumstances brought it about . |
| 20 | On July 24 the Djibouti government rejected suggestions by Ahmed Ali that it sought territorial expansion at the expense of Somaliland . |
| 21 | Vietnam informed the UK that it required adequate Western financial assistance for resettlement . |
| 22 | oh I like the ones you buy , but I , my mother used to make one every Sunday and it tasted horrible , tasted eggy |
| 23 | THERE is another festival of sport this Sunday but it requires some channel switching . |
| 24 | The argument developed in this chapter is of vital importance for the teaching of RE because it concerns deep-seated anxieties with religion which people have today . |
| 25 | Robert Byrd ( West Virginia ) , the appropriations committee chairman , came under attack from Nunn because it allowed unauthorized " pork-barrel " programmes to be funded and because no money was given to restart production of the F-117 A fighter , a stealth aircraft Nunn called the " star " of the Gulf war . |
| 26 | Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany . |
| 27 | Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years . |
| 28 | Sauvignon , that quintessential crisp , dry white variety , is popular in fashion-led Australia where it produces clean dry whites — but with a difference . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 30 | Many people are attracted to Yugoslavia because it offers such great value for money . |