Example sentences of "it add a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Genette remarks in the title essay of Figures , all figural language opens up a topos ; it adds a dimension to discourse , turning a line into a space ( 1966:210 ) . |
| 2 | It adds a scent to the landscape and softens the aridity and intenseness that might otherwise prevail . |
| 3 | Article 35 of the First protocol restates the basic rules of limitation of the methods and means of warfare and the prohibition of methods and means ‘ of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering ’ ; to this it adds a prohibition of methods or means ‘ which are intended or may be expected to cause widespread , long-term and severe damage to the natural environment ’ . |
| 4 | To a man of Joyce 's stamp it added a degree of humiliation and defeat , in that the wound was not sustained in the course of open battle but as a captive of what he soon called his ‘ sub-human ’ enemy . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it added a lot of atmosphere . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it added a lot of atmosphere . |
| 7 | She heaved a great sigh of which she was privately rather proud , thinking that it added a touch of verisimilitude to the sad tale she was spinning . |