Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 2 | And ten years after the kiosk starred in Bill Forsyth 's film Local Hero it still acts like a magnet for hundreds of fans drawn to the Buchan village of Pennan . |
| 3 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 4 | ‘ After a cross-country pursuit it eventually landed in a tree and I had to organise a rescue . |
| 5 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 6 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |
| 7 | ( In the 1992 election it hardly got beyond a slanging match over who had identified the young patient awaiting treatment for glue ear who was featured in a Labour election broadcast . ) |
| 8 | This last might seem to be an asset if you are trying to lose weight , but in actual fact it merely acts as a mask to the body 's natural craving for food . |