Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Will it come next Tuesday night ?
32 That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state .
33 Any festival would be proud of a comment such as that above , showing as it does that Nikolai Demidenko 's first great success in the West was with us .
34 The fact that the country is surrounded on all sides by South Africa is ‘ not a bad thing ’ : it enables 50,000 Lesothan men to work in South African mines , returning with their ‘ pockets bursting with rands ’ .
35 It rivals any Disney ride as it rattles through valleys , races round sheer-drop corners and roller-coasts its way from Bastia to Ile Rousse and Calvi .
36 Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians .
37 It suggests good Washington connections as he said and a certain fluidity of ethics as he did n't say .
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