Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 2 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 3 | In December 1988 the monthly real interest rate was 0.8% ; by the following December it had risen to 4.3% . |
| 4 | Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives . |
| 5 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
| 6 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 7 | By early April it had sold 1,000 companies out of a total of over 8,000 . |
| 8 | Perhaps had the Ceauşescus ruled over a larger state their megalomania might have been more comfortably contained , but trapped inside little Romania it began to consume the whole nation and to penetrate into every area of life , even its most intimate secrets . |
| 9 | After Cold Higham it crosses Watling Street , runs past the important Iron Age hill-fort of Hunsbury , and reaches the crossing of the Nene at Northampton . |
| 10 | By June unemployment in western Germany had fallen to 5.3 per cent or 593,000 ( the lowest figure for over 10 years ) , but in eastern Germany it had risen to 9.5 per cent ( 842,504 ) . |
| 11 | Still , and as they only do it every Good Friday it do n't . |
| 12 | A. lymani has been recorded from both sides of the North Atlantic : in the western Atlantic it has been recorded off Nantucket in 547–1764 m while in the eastern Atlantic it has been found in the Bay of Biscay and off Portugal at depths of 1541–2350 m . |
| 13 | O. clavigera has been recorded from both sides of the Atlantic ; from Noval Scotia north to the Davis Strait and W. Greenland in the western Atlantic with a bathymetric range of 166–1100 m ; in the eastern Atlantic it has been recorded from SE . |
| 14 | In the western Atlantic it has been described from the West Indies ( 325 m ) , from various localities off North America at depths of between 425–818 m ; in the eastern Atlantic it has been recorded from Iceland south to the Azores and Cape Verde Islands at depths of 861–1635 m . |
| 15 | But to Western critics of newly- confident Japan it sounds distinctly over-the-top , especially when you add the extra ingredient of Picasso 's Les Noces de Pierrette . |
| 16 | By the third issue in late September it had become a little A5 booklet , to Elliott 's distress . |
| 17 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 18 | You 're right Craig it goes lower . |
| 19 | But there is a further problem : classical Greece it transpires , is a less than perfect model of ‘ full ’ literacy and certain periods and uses , even there , have to be termed ‘ restricted ’ . |
| 20 | But the only answer to that is for the West to build the most solid alliance it can with the only Germany it 's got . |
| 21 | Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry Emma it had to be done . |
| 23 | A. lymani has been recorded from both sides of the North Atlantic : in the western Atlantic it has been recorded off Nantucket in 547–1764 m while in the eastern Atlantic it has been found in the Bay of Biscay and off Portugal at depths of 1541–2350 m . |
| 24 | In the western Atlantic it has been described from the West Indies ( 325 m ) , from various localities off North America at depths of between 425–818 m ; in the eastern Atlantic it has been recorded from Iceland south to the Azores and Cape Verde Islands at depths of 861–1635 m . |
| 25 | Their destination could only be guessed at , but by their line of march through upper Clydesdale it looked as though they were heading for the West March , possibly even Galloway . |
| 26 | Hailing from the Swiss Alps it prefers rich soil and full sun . |
| 27 | An important consequence of the introduction of mechanical clocks was that in much of western Europe it led to the adoption of the uniform hour of sixty minutes . |
| 28 | In Western Europe it has been , as usual , the collapse of larger hopes and aspirations as well as the crisis of macro-national state power , real or apparent , which has allowed nationalism to fill the void in the souls of intellectuals and militants . |
| 29 | A letter erm from New Baysford it says Two weeks ago my car was nicked in Illkeston in the Pimlico car park between the hours of two and five whilst shopping . |
| 30 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |