Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it — often in mid-air . |
| 2 | This is spoken in the north and also understood in the eastern and western states ; but it receives short shrift once it ventures to enter the south . |
| 3 | It displays simple graphics as well as text . |
| 4 | Instead it involves such things as finding new uses for old products or showing how solutions considered impracticable can be made to work . |
| 5 | And would it make much difference if the pact only covered a limited number of seats ? |
| 6 | Since the Constitution of a country is only a part of that country 's whole system of government , does it make any difference whether a country has a Constitution or not ? |
| 7 | If that is so should it make any difference whether the debtor is a party to the agreement ( he is not a party to the contract ) or not ? |
| 8 | Would it make any difference if the second extract was rewritten with referring expressions instead of repetition ? |
| 9 | Would it make any difference if Party A fought the election campaign on a manifesto which openly outlined its policies , as opposed to the adoption of these policies after winning the election ? |
| 10 | Would it make any difference if there was n't a European parliament at all ? |
| 11 | A notice is preferable as it imposes greater protection than a caution ( which can be warned off ) but requires the consent of the landlord as the land certificate will need to be placed on deposit for the purpose of registration . |
| 12 | Newcastle 's Tote Eider Chase is always a recognised Grand National trial , but with Bonanza Boy , Mr Boston and Mr Ed the most notable of several Liverpool aspirants who pulled out at yesterday 's declaration stage , it offers fewer clues than usual . |
| 13 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 14 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 15 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 16 | The pancreas is vital for digesting food , because it produces digestive enzymes as well as the hormone insulin . |
| 17 | Living as it does at high level , it produces fewer lambs than other breeds . |
| 18 | It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute . |
| 19 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 20 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 21 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 22 | In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security . |
| 23 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 24 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 25 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 26 | ‘ It provided built-in variety when the technology of TV was very different . |
| 27 | The quatrocentennial Columbus exhibition cost a staggering $30m : it drew more visitors than any previous event in history . |
| 28 | Not that it carries the equivalent of flab — merely that it needs extra strength because of its different combustion process operating under compression ratios twice that of petrol engines . |
| 29 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 30 | This figure is non-committal as to the precise mechanism likely to lead to the generation of passive margin upwarps as it illustrates secondary convection as well as non-uniform ( depth-dependent extension ) and the effects of lateral heat flow into unthinned lithosphere . |