Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colliery owners undertook to support the new Union by giving it sole negotiating rights ; by agreeing to deduct the Union contribution from wages ; by contributing 12,500 to the Union 's pension fund and by harrying known members of the NMA . |
| 2 | Ivor thought it odd defending champions Europe should go first because tradition , and courtesy , normally allows the visitors the honour . |
| 3 | Demos are an excellent way for amateur programmers to hone their skills as they can set themselves any task they wish to perfect , be it exciting text scrollies , explosive FX , multiple sprite animation ( mention sprite masking and you 're a dead man ! — Ed ) , rotation , scaling or just about any other facet that makes Commodore games so wild ‘ n ’ wonderful . |
| 4 | I 'd call it functional group isomers . |
| 5 | Peter Watts , currently the president of Tangent , will head up the new venture , which will use ISDN technology , allowing for electronic software distribution and simultaneous voice , data and image computer conferencing , all areas on which Unilinx has it long range sights . |
| 6 | On the face of it gross profit rates showed a steady decline over the 1960s and a dramatic fall between 1970 and 1975 from 23 per cent to 13 percent ; if capital consumption is taken into account the fall was from 17 to 4 per cent . |
| 7 | what they call it desperate dye faces |
| 8 | Campaigners fighting to keep it open fear children will die if the ward — one of the world 's leading child cancer centres — is moved to another hospital without Bart 's expertise . |
| 9 | Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered . |
| 10 | The brown hyena deposits two different smell chemicals by everting an anal pouch and squeezing it round grass stems . |
| 11 | The term also carries with it certain elite connotations , and quickly generates references to ‘ standards ’ and ‘ excellence ’ . |
| 12 | Figures are not produced for the lengths of old field boundaries removed or watercourses canalised but in 1983 , SAFER Auvergne spent 163,481FF on building new farms and buildings ; 470 , 165FF on irrigation , drainage and straightening water courses ; 1,859,119FF on roads , clearance for cultivation ( scrub etc ? ) and boundary construction , much of it attracting state subsidies . |