Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It sold two and a half thousand copies very quickly and Lime had to get more pressed . |
| 2 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 3 | If you do feel hungry , you can eat anything you like — as long as it has little or no fat in it . |
| 4 | Although treatment of secondary hyperprolactinaemia with a dopamine agonist may reduce plasma prolactin concentrations , it has little or no effect on the growth of a macroadenoma . |
| 5 | The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time . |
| 6 | It cost one and a half million pounds — but the hospital says it 's money well spent . |
| 7 | Ordinarily it provoked little or no attention from passers-by . |
| 8 | It bears little or no relation to ideas of marriage held by non-Christian races in Africa and Asia . |
| 9 | He makes it sound simple but the success speaks for itself . |
| 10 | Because it costs two and a half times as much to collect as the money that is received . |
| 11 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 12 | There is no comparison between the firm , delicate flesh of such a natural specimen and the fatty flab of the farmed fish made pink by E160g , washed in Nuvan to minimize lice infestation and packed into a cage so that it gets little or no natural conditioning . |
| 13 | It is preferable to smack the dog with your hand rather than use a rolled-up newspaper which the dog may see as an extension of the game , especially if it gets excited and a tug-of-war ensues . |
| 14 | It gets bruised but the fruit remains . |
| 15 | It sounds impressive and the major advantage is that use of drugs is minimal , if at all . |
| 16 | She says it 's lovely — it sounds great and the whole setting is wonderful . |
| 17 | He said copyart can be practised by people of differing abilities because it takes little or no skill to produce exciting and impressive images . |
| 18 | It takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 19 | Ah but th th th there 's a rack and w one goes on and holds the horn post up to the boot while it 's driven , then it comes out and there 's two , one 's half a tooth , so it ensures one or the other 's in , and they work like that . |
| 20 | For their part , consumes should take reasonable care when making purchases ; where there is small print it should be read carefully or , if it seems complex and the purchase involves a large sum of money , professional advice may be required . |
| 21 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 22 | It took four and a half hours to reach the summit and , believing it would be easier and quicker to regain the glacier by traversing the mountain , we continued our crab-like progression to the west . |
| 23 | It took one and a half days to the confluence with the Tisza with mosquitos , heat , sometimes unbearable , and camping wild on sandbanks . |
| 24 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 25 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 26 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |
| 27 | Surely you can see that the very serious element in it puts the straightforward demonstration ‘ Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out' ’ protest song , in its place and makes it seem trite and a little bit cosy ? ’ |
| 28 | At — 0.7 V it becomes neutral and the resistance rises . |
| 29 | Once the adsorbent surface of the nose is filled with odorant molecules , however , it becomes saturated and no ‘ stronger ’ smell will be perceived , even though the concentration of the odorant may increase . |
| 30 | Once a repetition has been observed to flow , it can be dammed like a river , building up the pressure until it becomes irresistible and the dam bursts . |