Example sentences of "it [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 2 | The concept ‘ force ’ as used in physics is precise because it acquires its meaning from the role it plays in a precise , relatively autonomous theory , Newtonian mechanics . |
| 3 | I thought I heard the music of fairies , which is believed to render men forever enthralled to wonderland , and it plays in a responsive mind all life long . |
| 4 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 5 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 6 | It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way . |
| 7 | I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place . |
| 8 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 9 | It builds in a cumulative temporal structure to the index , in that the hearer must continually update the information in his previous discourse component , to take account of what has most recently been added . |
| 10 | It is not easy to identify , because it lies in a rich area and there are no convenient guides to it . |
| 11 | Peć is still the spiritual centre of the Serbian Orthodox Church , but it lies in a remote corner of Yugoslavia , close to the Albanian border , in the Albanian-speaking province of Kosovo . |
| 12 | It lies in a shallow valley a couple of clicks north of Redondo . |
| 13 | It lies in a direct line with Theta ( 3.7 ) and Epsilon , and there is a sixth-magnitude star close beside it . |
| 14 | Yet even on the tapes of the talks , considerably less gilded than the memoranda , it let in a little light for a moment . |
| 15 | We see it happening in a crucial passage in the Acts , the conversion of Cornelius . |
| 16 | When it stopped in a remote area police pounced and arrested the robbers as they off-loaded the cargo . |
| 17 | In the US , this is provided by the usual media assumption that the Libyans are guilty — thus providing the Bush administration with the kind of support it needs in a desperate election campaign . |
| 18 | It stands in a small square , now some five feet below the present ground level , surrounded by cypress trees . |
| 19 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |
| 20 | ‘ The location of the offence can be described in evidence by any witness of the incident to show that it occurred in a public or a private place . |
| 21 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 22 | It lives in a beautiful multi-chambered shell , which provides buoyancy and protection . |
| 23 | I think it matters in a broad sense , in that the ability to master a variety of skills and express oneself through a variety of media ( including language , music and the visual arts ) is important to any well-rounded and educated person . |
| 24 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 25 | It results in a low rate of excise duty on wines ( the fastest growing component of consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks ) and a high rate of duty on spirits ( whose share of expenditure on alcoholic drinks is falling ) . |
| 26 | Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters . |
| 27 | If it burned in a blue equilateral triangle , there was 2½ per cent methane in the air and ‘ the men had to be gotten out ’ . |
| 28 | Research has indicated that police are more likely to perceive an act as delinquent if it occurs in a low-income inner city area . |
| 29 | It 's more likely to throw everyone off course if it happens in a little room with a small audience . |
| 30 | But it happens in a whole range of programmes . |