Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally making only acoustic guitars , the facility 's scope was broadened in 1983 to take in electrics , and today it produces most of Yamaha 's guitar range . |
| 2 | This is savannah ; and it covers much of Africa , India , and Australia . |
| 3 | It has little of Edinburgh 's fund management , Bristol 's big insurance business or Birmingham 's corporate banking . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it contains much of value and of topical interest , and an extensive bibliography . |
| 5 | Although Kemp 's is a silly book , it contains enough of Wells 's lively turns of phrase — even when used against him — to make it readable . |
| 6 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland all enjoy a species of regional government but it savours more of deconcentration than of devolution . |
| 7 | The same table also shows that the proportion of women qualifying for unemployment benefit increased over the years so that it surpassed that of men . |
| 8 | It covered most of South Wales west to Milford Haven and north to Llandyssul , in England north to Hereford and Wolverhampton and of course the famous main line all the way to Penzance with its branches . |
| 9 | Carefully thought out , it lists all of Leger 's exhibitions , but , more importantly , reproduces in colour a large selection of the finest paintings which have passed through their hands . |
| 10 | It meant most of Jonathon 's teenage years were spent in a wheelchair . |
| 11 | Becoming a Christian is not the solution and the answer and the th the grand elixir , it solves all of life 's problems , it takes away all the difficulties . |
| 12 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
| 13 | It took all of Shiona 's strength to keep her body from trembling . |
| 14 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
| 15 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 16 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 17 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |