Example sentences of "it [verb] several [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view , the evidence of the face ( Boxes 3 and 4 ) is of greater significance , for it involves several functional complexes of the nose , orbits and palate , and this supports the relationship of Sivapithecus with the orang-utan . |
| 2 | It produced several serious expressions of interest . |
| 3 | The River Weaver had been improved in 1733 , but the improvement of the Sankey Brook Navigation from the coalfield around St Helens in 1754 – 7 was especially significant in that it involved several new cuts . |
| 4 | The polarisation of views , inherent in the structure of a dialogue , may oversimplify complex issues at the heart of the debate , but we hope that it highlights several important conflicts which remain unresolved . |
| 5 | It has several graphic editors for handling rules generation , linguistic variables and system structure , with 8-bit resolution for all internal and external data . |
| 6 | If , as he now seems to acknowledge , present board proposals are unacceptable , it has several other options prepared . |
| 7 | The second number of the 1993 volume , which has now gone to print , contains an extra selection of book reviews , and as well as the usual listing it has several other items that will be of interest to anyone who wants to keep up to date with what is being published . |
| 8 | It has several distinguishing features . |
| 9 | It has several circular tholos tombs , of which one , ‘ E ’ , dates to the Pre-Temple Period , 2500–2000 BC . |
| 10 | It has several criss-cross patterns along the bar with a rest-type design and hole through the centre-piece . |
| 11 | Intangible though bargaining power may seem at first , it has several important features . |
| 12 | It contains several rare species and is the home of Britain 's rarest spider , the great raft spider , which is known in only one other site in the UK ( at Pevensey in East Sussex ) and has all but disappeared elsewhere in Europe because of the draining of its fenland habitats . |
| 13 | Other parents said the book ‘ defames Christianity in that it uses several biblical passages to justify the totalitarian themes depicted in the novel . ’ |
| 14 | It reviews several behavioural studies . |
| 15 | It introduces several key changes to the way companies ' results are reported : the p&l account has an entirely new format ; extraordinary items become virtually extinct ; earnings per share will be calculated after any extraordinary items ; any gain or loss on disposal of revalued assets will be calculated with reference to the carrying value , and realised revaluation surpluses will therefore be excluded from the p&l account . |
| 16 | A government of national salvation by another name , it includes several non-party technocrats , the leader of the Greens and , most important , three members of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) , bringing to an end the former Communists ' 45 years of political ostracism . |
| 17 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 18 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |
| 19 | Well you say it ignores several local plan policies . |
| 20 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 21 | Happy and novel and thoroughly charming , it gave several talented artists their first big chance , going on to bigger , if hardly better things . |
| 22 | Right , later on it describes in enormous detail how the president is chosen and the electoral system and then under section two it gives several specific powers that the president has and I would like at least one contribution from this packed assembly here . |
| 23 | Most notably , it had several close encounters with the Earth , causing great upheavals , dividing the Red Sea , spattering the landscape with flaming petroleum , and in general making life sheer hell for our ancestors . |
| 24 | It had several gun-shot wounds . |
| 25 | It had several gun-shot wounds . |
| 26 | It retains several distinctive features such as a mighty stone spiral staircase , heavy wooden shutters ( which may have doubled as combat shields ) , a greenstone fireplace , and exposed roof timbers . |