Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It applied its new cash limits to approvals of local capital spending and to local grants . |
| 2 | However , the company plans to buy shelf space in the New Year , when it launches its new title , House Beautiful , as a monthly magazine . |
| 3 | It encourages our spiritual growth but the initial step , the initial step which people make is generally as a resump result of something much more simple , much more basic . |
| 4 | It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative . |
| 5 | It destroys my digestive system . |
| 6 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 7 | CUCGA intends within five years to have ( i ) established relations with the media , Government Departments , Members of both Houses of Parliament and other bodies with an interest in higher education ; ( ii ) established itself as a campaigning body on behalf of graduate organisations ; ( iii ) opened its membership to encompass all university convocations and analogous bodies in the UK ; ( iv ) established methods of funding to allow it to support its expanded role ; ( v ) developed a comprehensive portfolio of policy issues upon which it can actively and publicly campaign at appropriate times . |
| 8 | The choice of prose can accompany a deliberate disguise , as with Julia in Two Gentlemen , who adopts it to support her new role as a boy in her search for Proteus ( 1V.ii.26ff . ) . |
| 9 | It forbids its own purity . |
| 10 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 11 | It 's not only the patient , who lies there paralysed and unable to talk , and unable to move , it involves his whole family . |
| 12 | The British foreign office also showed itself more forward-looking than almost any other in the adoption of the typewriter : it appointed its first typist in 1889 and had eight by 1900 . |
| 13 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 14 | Does it make you sad saying goodbye to children that you 've looked after though ? |
| 15 | But when the nation was not at war the social round of the Fields was formidable Olive , it is said , eventually grew tired of Morris Grange so , in 1919 , Norman bought Lartington Hall with its 140 acres of parkland , 3 grouse moors , 3 lakes , 13 farms and most of the cottages in the village , and it became their principal residence for the rest of their lives . |
| 16 | It became her only home . |
| 17 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 18 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 19 | Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course . |
| 20 | Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms mostly to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course . |
| 21 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 22 | Did it tumble then , did it hurt its little self ? ’ |
| 23 | The fact remains that it will be a long time before the legal profession properly shakes off the constraints of client expectation that force it to underplay its modern role . |
| 24 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 25 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 26 | She is too afraid of her reaction : ‘ To this day , it drives me crazy listening to her various hypotheses , the way religion and superstition all merge with her own beliefs . |
| 27 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 28 | It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon . |
| 29 | As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring . |
| 30 | It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken . |