Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally making only acoustic guitars , the facility 's scope was broadened in 1983 to take in electrics , and today it produces most of Yamaha 's guitar range . |
| 2 | Perhaps it owes that to influences from its earlier history . |
| 3 | This is savannah ; and it covers much of Africa , India , and Australia . |
| 4 | It looks more like tea now , it looked like coffee before |
| 5 | It has little of Edinburgh 's fund management , Bristol 's big insurance business or Birmingham 's corporate banking . |
| 6 | Hume 's complex moral philosophy can not simply be equated with emotivism , but it has much in common with it . |
| 7 | His marks appear overstruck by that of Paul Crespin on ambassadorial plate issued to the Earl of Chesterfield [ q.v. ] in 1727 ; although George Wickes [ q.v. ] supplied the Bath presentation cup to Frederick Louis , Prince of Wales [ q.v. ] , in 1739 , it has much in common with a contemporary series of cups with De Lamerie 's mark . |
| 8 | Developed from the Romanesque craft , it has much in common with Dutch , northern German and Polish examples . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it contains much of value and of topical interest , and an extensive bibliography . |
| 10 | Although Kemp 's is a silly book , it contains enough of Wells 's lively turns of phrase — even when used against him — to make it readable . |
| 11 | A carp is quite happy on a high protein diet because it utilises some for tissue repair , construction of its own complex molecules such as enzymes and of course growth by addition of new body protein . |
| 12 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 13 | It says much for Ackerley — and Parker — that he emerges out of much camp narcissism as a figure of genuine humility . |
| 14 | It says much for Mr Klesch 's negotiating stamina however , that five years later , the £280m is still unpaid but British & Commonwealth has gone bust . |
| 15 | It says much for Robertson that in spite of the general disorder he still contrived to look dangerous and Craig Levein and Derek Ferguson strove to play properly as the rubbish raged around them . |
| 16 | The groups raise money and distribute it to help those in need , mainly through social workers . |
| 17 | The groups raise money and distribute it to help those in need , mainly through social workers . |
| 18 | It calculates this by class of business on the basis of a separate carry-forward of deferred acquisition expenses after making allowance for investment income . |
| 19 | Now I 'm an ex-gardener I 'm a horticulturist it take roughly about forty years for trees to reach maturity it does n't say much for our planners if they plan to put those trees there and then now are gon na have them up again it sounds much like change for changes sake and that that it basically my comment . |
| 20 | The same table also shows that the proportion of women qualifying for unemployment benefit increased over the years so that it surpassed that of men . |
| 21 | It covered most of South Wales west to Milford Haven and north to Llandyssul , in England north to Hereford and Wolverhampton and of course the famous main line all the way to Penzance with its branches . |
| 22 | Carefully thought out , it lists all of Leger 's exhibitions , but , more importantly , reproduces in colour a large selection of the finest paintings which have passed through their hands . |
| 23 | It included such as Wanda Staniszewska , Jackie Gallagher , Buddy Rozynski ( cousin of Louis Dudek ) and Aileen Collins ( later to be Mrs L. Dudek ) , Robert A. Currie , Yaffa Lerner , Anna Azzulo , Betty Sutherland ( later Mrs Sutherland Layton ) , and Dudek himself . |
| 24 | It meant most of Jonathon 's teenage years were spent in a wheelchair . |
| 25 | The National Council for Voluntary Organisations said that while much of the SORP was appropriate to the needs of larger charities , it feared those with incomes of less than £100,000 a year may ignore it because of the extra administration , cost and complexity it involved . |
| 26 | Becoming a Christian is not the solution and the answer and the th the grand elixir , it solves all of life 's problems , it takes away all the difficulties . |
| 27 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
| 28 | It took all of Shiona 's strength to keep her body from trembling . |
| 29 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
| 30 | It flicked each in turn , making the plump moons bounce as she flinched from each sharp little sting . |