Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch . |
| 32 | But , for Canterbury , it made possible the appointment of a new prior , and Anselm appointed Ernulf , who was one of Lanfranc 's men , but of a very different stamp from his predecessor . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | It made unlikely the resurrection of the four-party coalition of the outgoing government — the DC , PSI , and the smaller Liberals ( PLI ) and Social Democrats ( PSDI ) . |
| 35 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 36 | In the 1991 Chairman 's report it made clear the fact that the Buckfastleigh Branch having been leased in 1991 to the South Devon Railway Trust , showed only the fare income for the Paignton branch , hence a fall in turnover from the 1990 season , which included the fare income from the Buckfastleigh branch . |
| 37 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 38 | 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 ) . |
| 39 | It incorporates all the functions normally expected in an electronic organiser , including diary , clock , alarm , notepad and address book . |
| 40 | It incorporates all the features of the monochrome flat panel series , plus the RISC engine , X server accelerator , large screen and colour . |
| 41 | It incorporates all the Solaris Workgroup technologies plus advanced system administration , commercial-grade input-output and enterprise-wide installation . |
| 42 | ‘ You see it happening all the time , the move around between the carer and the resident as to who is the adult and who is the child . |
| 43 | Now in this room I see it happening all the time , and if you 're doing something important , then I can bring you back into it ca n't I ? |
| 44 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | At Manhattan 's Fulton fish market in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge , fishmongers pay about $1.40 to have 100lb of fish carried across South Street — the same price they would pay to have it carried all the way from the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 47 | It , it 's really because as somebody gets older the risk gets very , very great , and it needs all the money that 's built up in the early years to sustain the risk , the charges for the risk later on , in the later years . |
| 48 | PACE has taken a charity stall on nearby Aylesbury Market , but it needs all the help it can get . |
| 49 | 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 ) . |
| 50 | The verb to love is difficult to define as it covers such a range of emotion . |
| 51 | ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’ |
| 52 | it has all the ingredients I wanted ; Figure 1 was the result of my first visit . |
| 53 | It has all the ingredients for an appealing story , and an appealing picture . |
| 54 | He says It has all the ingredients that kids want jeopardy , death and destruction but it also has people saving lives and so the parents like it and that is why it has been so popular . |
| 55 | Clairol 's Silver Shot ( £19.95 ) is a small , compact hairdryer that wo n't take up loads of room and it has all the advantages of its bigger , professional-style counterparts . |
| 56 | It has all the advantages of a cannon plus the ability to rumble forward through the middle of enemy formations crushing everything in its path . |
| 57 | It 's promoted by the natural-born hucksters within Apple because it has all the earmarks of something trendy and fashionable . |
| 58 | This second expedition to Benghazi is not mentioned in any official documents and it has all the hallmarks of a David Stirling private-enterprise job , especially in view of the personnel who were to be involved . |
| 59 | IT has all the hallmarks of history repeating itself , the charismatic young pretender ousting the tired old campaigner , so it is inevitable that comparisons between Bill Clinton and John F Kennedy are coming thick and fast . |
| 60 | It has all the hallmarks of a master plan . ’ |