Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] it [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This government have to be made to realize what a cruel blow it has struck on the very weakest sections of the community , the unemployed and the five and half million pensioners living in poverty .
2 But without a political deal it risks turning bad .
3 Today my black-gloved fist grasps the most interesting stick it has held to date .
4 This is the week Unix International gets to take its shot at Microsoft Windows NT thanks to the publication of a detailed study it 's had done by Locus Computing Corporation tellingly titled ‘ NT versus Unix , ’ ( UX No 411 ) .
5 Up to 80 per cent of the membrane of a halobacterium consists of bacteriorhodopsin , the light receptor it uses to carry out photosynthesis .
6 If successful in acquiring the British group it intends to operate Pearl as a separate entity with its own sales force .
7 Two undistinguished international seasons , only token involvement with the Lions in Australia and bitter controversy about South Africa have combined to give the game in Ireland possibly the worst public profile it has had .
8 A new pride in their work springs up because a fear is wiped out from their subconsciousness , and the social inferiority it endangers goes .
9 On an empty stomach it 's made me feel quite queasy .
10 What can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain , the greenhouse effect , nuclear weapons , and genetic engineering ?
11 It is very concerned about presenting the world with a fait accompli and meeting the fourth-quarter timeframe it has set .
12 Along the top line it has stamped ‘ Messerschmitt AG ’ Elsewhere on the plate are the letters and figures ‘ 109 651–04 ’ and on the bottom row , ‘ 1091–2 3006/19 ’ followed by ‘ BA ’ or ‘ BH ’ — the last two digits are somewhat indistinct .
13 The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers .
14 The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers .
15 But in historical retrospect it does count as a very early example of visual effects in a TV serial .
16 The Directive identifies handicaps to agricultural productivity ; to a much lesser extent it attempts to quantify aspects of social and economic decline .
17 One of the reasons it thinks COSE is interested in its participation is some key technology that DEC has that in its infinite wisdom it has failed to trumpet .
18 Having released a highly successful book of Russian posters the renowned publisher Aurora , which publishes books for export , does not know what to do with the rich reserve of editorial material it has accumulated over recent years , and it has been forced to sell transparencies and texts .
19 We 're actually in a part of Barley Hall now accidentally except that this part has been so Georgianized that we have n't incorporated into the medieval house it 's used as an office .
20 For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created .
21 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
22 As an interim proposal it has suggested a new line be built through Kent overground to a new terminal at Swanley , close to the M25 , and the upgrading of the existing Waterloo line .
23 Grieving is one of life 's basic experiences , yet because of its intensely personal nature it tends to stay hidden , despite the amount of attention given to the subject today .
24 Wimpey refused to quantify the additional charge it has taken for its involvement in the Channel Tunnel project , but it is thought to be similar to the £8 million announced by its fellow Chunnel contractor , Balfour Beatty , recently .
25 Could be ages to grow like that , now it 's grown a real good hedge , in fact no it ai n't a good real hedge it 's got massive great gaping holes in it
26 The first pieces of Jason , once also called Medley , its long-awaited graphical object-oriented next-generation product for client-server environments , is being rolled out as the tip of an overall strategy it has dubbed Nouveau .
27 The first pieces of Jason , once also called Medley , its long-awaited graphical object-oriented next-generation product for client/server environments , is being rolled out as the tip of an overall strategy it has dubbed Nouveau .
28 Pure bliss it 's got account on it
29 True , there is a stream Kingsdale Beck , draining the slopes of Whernside at the head of the valley and accompanying the road down but for much of its early journey it prefers to travel under rather than on its limestone bed and remains out of sight and hearing .
30 ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open .
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