Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] it " in BNC.

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2 He noted that its heavy brow-ridges gave it an ape-like appearance , but rejected it as a ‘ missing link ’ because of its large capacity .
3 In the book the strength of the climax is that his moral attitudes make it necessary for him to reach the girl before she becomes the wife of someone else , which he does .
4 To see Di Stefano , Puskas and Gento caress and flick the ball , to see their back-heel passes and drag-backs and overhead kicks , was to realise that our school-yard coaches had it wrong when they 'd hectored us into a kick-and-run , ‘ fixed bayonets ’ type of football .
5 Furthermore , the orang-utan can tolerate a wide range of bitter and sour fruits and high alcohol levels and its strong hands allow it to open spiny or hard fruits like durians and legumes .
6 It was a style which many of the country 's administrators were familiar with , from their visits to France , and its classical origins made it acceptable to the cultured amateur .
7 A kind of downward spiral results , the kids growing progressively more pessimistic about their chances , their hopes plummeting and their general postures making it more difficult for them to get jobs .
8 Their Parthenon-building ancestors began that culture , and their Byzantine ancestors kept it alive when the rest of Europe had fallen into the dark ages .
9 The harder it became , the more he and his remaining comrades enjoyed it .
10 Its eyes can discern very small intervals of time ( it can respond to a falling hand in less than one hundredth of a second ) , and our clumsy attempts to kill it must appear ponderously slow , as if filmed in slow motion .
11 The aircraft flies comparatively slowly , at about 700 km/hr , but its big wings allow it to cruise at a height of more than 21 000 m — nearly double that of a transatlantic airliner .
12 Moore , who did not place much value upon a society as a whole , might not have agreed , but his general principles allow it as a possibility .
13 ‘ Sometimes I think I see the devil incarnate , ’ she muttered , more to herself , but his sharp ears picked it up .
14 In addition to the fact that multiple complexes with defined stoichiometries can be mapped simultaneously , this in gel procedure circumvents the limitations imposed by the aforementioned factors , whereas its inherent advantages renders it ideal for methylation protection analysis of non-abundant and/or kinetically labile complexes .
15 Seeing me , it had taken to the air , clumsily at first , then with Increasing speed as its great wings beat it downriver to Rash .
16 As in the 1920s , Morocco provided the scenario in which Franco appeared to be endowed with a special mix of luck and divine protection — baraka as his Moroccan soldiers called it .
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