Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK they 're quite happy for their girls to be academic but daring to be more positive about being ordered outside that because it involves such a lot , having control over your own body , again you know , abortion raises its hairy head again . |
| 2 | It involves such a lot . |
| 3 | It became such a success that further developments were needed . |
| 4 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 5 | A freshly bought loaf , still warm from the oven , smells and tastes delicious — but we would not expect it to taste good a week later . |
| 6 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 7 | On this night the fire-watchers heard the nose-cone come down , it made such a crash , thought it was an incendiary , and spent the rest of the night searching for it , in vain . |
| 8 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 9 | The United States filed a brief denying the supposedly exclusive character of the Convention , but urging that principles of comity should be applied to determine whether an order should be made under the Federal Rules when the foreign country had unequivocally stated that it regarded such an order as a violation of its sovereignty ; and argued that a District Court could in any event not order the taking of depositions in Germany without compliance with the procedures prescribed by the German authorities ( in this case , those of the Convention ) . |
| 10 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 11 | The board says it needs such a store in any case in the 1990s because there may be a shortage of reprocessing capacity at British Nuclear Fuels ' Sellafield plant ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 289 ) . |
| 12 | The verb to love is difficult to define as it covers such a range of emotion . |
| 13 | It is a singularity of the book that it contains such a wealth of excellent and dramatic illustrations and deals with such titanic forces and events , but written in such a flat style . |
| 14 | And Geoff , she said Geoff come round last night he said she is in such a muddle and it wants such a lot doing to it ! |
| 15 | then it went down to seven , fifty , now it 's six fifty it looking good a nick in , he 'd be lucky to get five I would have thought is there anyone you want a bit of crystal for ? |
| 16 | If either kind of conjecture fails an observational or experimental test it will be falsified , while if it passes such a test we will say it is confirmed . |
| 17 | The disease is growing in importance as the population of many western countries ages : it kills 120,000 a year in the USA . |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed such a pity your room should be so dark and cold , Mr Stevens , when it 's such bright sunshine outside . |
| 19 | It seemed such a waste to be driving back to England and leaving it all behind . |
| 20 | But it seemed such a peach of a way out of trouble . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed such a shame to wake you , but I knew you 'd be really cross if you did n't get some studying done . ’ |
| 22 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 23 | That suppressed anger has had its volcanic eruptions in many aspects of popular culture , but never has it had such a lava flow in the realm of rock'n'roll . |
| 24 | Either this plaster board holes or whatever the house well the trouble is it costs such a lot of money |
| 25 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 26 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 27 | It takes half a minute . |
| 28 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 29 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
| 30 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |