Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 32 | So that it 's it it has certainly got a lot of value an exercise like that , even with entirely good conditions . |
| 33 | Telecom Eireann is cutting international rates but raising the cost of local calls to put tariffs more closely in line with costs , but it has predictably met a storm of protest from the consumer lobbies . |
| 34 | If the administration now seeks a coherent shopping-list of objectives , it has better find a way of accounting for these hidden benefits . |
| 35 | In case the House doubts the substance behind that view , it has only to consider a Gallup opinion poll that appeared recently in The Daily Telegraph . |
| 36 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 37 | It is perhaps interesting to note that whilst the LMS legislation would appear to be part of a wider strategy for the control of public expenditure , it has now spawned a range of better-informed pressure groups which , when focusing on the quality of the education service , find themselves increasingly calling for greater expenditure on books , teaching materials , equipment and the maintenance of school premises ! |
| 38 | Although it has now become a way of life , I still find it disturbing . |
| 39 | It has now become a challenge to find new varieties of herb — at the last count there were just over 130 . |
| 40 | I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage . |
| 41 | From this false start , their marriage had many more vicissitudes until it has now reached a point where there now exists between them a thinly disguised mutual antipathy . |
| 42 | It has now prepared a short-list of five projects for the next round of decisions to be made in a year or two , although the agency warns that these more ambitious and expensive projects can only be funded at the rate of one every 2½ years . |
| 43 | For this reason it has always enjoyed a notability out of all relation to its size . |
| 44 | It has always looked a bit ramshackle , with its claustrophobic nets , which were gas-lit until the 1960s . |
| 45 | A package of new loans made public last week reveals that the nation will move away from its traditional hunting ground of French-speaking Africa , where it has always had a science presence , and towards English-speaking and Latin American nations and the Far East . |
| 46 | It has always seemed a bit of a mystery that the College chose its present Camden Town site . |
| 47 | Iraq has launched a rocket into space but it has never put a satellite into orbit . |
| 48 | It has never cracked a cup . ’ |
| 49 | For , although the Institute has provided undergraduate teaching and postgraduate supervision over the years , it has never offered a degree course in the History of Art in the manner of other British universities with outstanding collections , such as Glasgow , Manchester , London or East Anglia . |
| 50 | One reason is simply that the futures industry has never been precise in its thinking on the question ; indeed , it has never found a definition necessary for commercial purposes . |
| 51 | ‘ Cars are also important for old folk and are essential in the rural parishes of Suffolk — it has almost become a necessity . |
| 52 | It has therefore signed a letter of intent with Noble Investment Co of Palm Beach to raise between $3m and $6m via an offering of securities to European institutional investors only . |
| 53 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 54 | But , ironically , it has recently opened a wing for old people , one of the most modern in Europe . |
| 55 | It has recently published a brochure giving a ‘ who 's who ’ checklist of foreign conversation characteristics . |
| 56 | From its regional offices in Quito , Ecuador , it has recently produced a multi-media package on cholera . |
| 57 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
| 58 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 59 | Erm it does obviously have a bearing on sales to the third countries when the er aircraft is in production . |
| 60 | Och i do n't know why they 're moving it down there , it 's already got a day unit on fifteen . |