Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near Marston Doles the route turned south , past Priors Hardwick , Upper and Lower Boddington to Aston-le-Wall , near which it crosses the Banbury-Daventry road . |
| 2 | Continue down the short valley of Mosedale to the road , which you follow eastwards until it crosses the River Duddon ( 1.75 ) . |
| 3 | The IMF said in its April 1991 forecast that it expected the US economy to shrink by 0.1 per cent in 1991 , before making a full recovery to 2.8 per cent growth in 1992 . |
| 4 | Fine china maker Wedgwood is to shed 160 jobs when it shuts the Johnson Brothers ' Hanley Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 5 | Indeed , SunSoft Inc is said to have taken VUE 's virtual workspace — though not the icons and bars themselves — and is thought to have hired Motif experts from the Open Software Foundation and elsewhere to help it build a COSE desktop toolkit . |
| 6 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 7 | It concerned a Captain Benjamin Willard ( Martin Sheen ) , who is sent by boat up river into neighbouring Cambodia to assassinate the deranged Colonel Kurtz ( Marlon Brando ) . |
| 8 | This would enable Hongkong Bank to avoid paying a packet for goodwill and for it to remain a Hongkong bank while Midland remained British . |
| 9 | Under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act , it asked the US President to sanction retaliation if Thailand kept its doors closed . |
| 10 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 11 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 12 | It became the Winston Cup in 1970 following sponsorship by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company . |
| 13 | In later years , it became the Stroud Piano Company and later Bentley Pianos . |
| 14 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |
| 15 | It acquired the shares when it sold a London property to EL last year . |
| 16 | It provided the leadership in February , it succeeded in opening the eyes of the more backward sections of the proletariat and the working masses to the reactionary nature of the petty-bourgeois and liberal parties , it welded the proletariat into an invincible revolutionary force and , drawing the poor peasants into alliance with them , it led the October revolution . |
| 17 | She laughed at the one from Myra ; it depicted the Gemini star sign — twins , one laughing , one thoughtful . |
| 18 | When the European Parliament 's regional policy committee last carried out a study in Northern Ireland it produced the Martin report , which resulted in £63m for housing , he added . |
| 19 | So it made the Stenness Loch polluted for the as pollution comes in the Stenness Loch and it f spoilt the fishing here . |
| 20 | Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H . |
| 21 | It involved a VW Golf , Peugot 205 and Renault 5 . |
| 22 | The incident first attracted national attention because it involved the Kennedy family , a subject which tended to elicit fiercely polarized views . |
| 23 | It provided the West Bank mayors and notables with financial disbursements and economic favours . |
| 24 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 25 | Iraq seems in no hurry to repay the billions of dollars it owes the Gulf Arabs for money received during the war ; and the Gulf Arabs seem in no hurry to ask . |
| 26 | On the evidence I have heard , it is reasonably clear that the old naval dockyard generated comparatively little heavy goods vehicle traffic and in the main it used the Pembroke Gate entrance . |
| 27 | Also , it is able to supply kit within five days in line with current market requirements ; it has a UK stockpile of components for repairs and maintenance ; its pricing is right , and it is starting to get distribution right . |
| 28 | For customers specifically wanting US dollars , it has a US Dollar Call Deposit Account , offering interest and immediate access to funds . |
| 29 | It has a Bristol Mercury radial engine of 840 horsepower . |
| 30 | Driver of Vickers Laboratories explained the procedure : ‘ You shake up the sample in carbon tet to extract the oil , dry it , and run an IR spectrum in the crucial region because it has no C-C bonds . |