Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 2 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 3 | This model confirms the importance of the greenhouse gas forcing of the climate , but it suggests that a doubling of greenhouse gas concentration will produce an increase in surface air temperature of 1.6 + 0.3 °C , which places it in the lower range of the generally accepted predictions of temperature increase ( Gilliland and Schneider , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 5 | This three-quarters works itself to death , generation after generation , at the behest of the female quarter , more sapient but no less savage , which dominates it by an impenetrable social mystification of oestrus . |
| 6 | However , as will be seen , this position is entirely in line with a view of Englishness which identifies it with a non-industrial or pre-industrial past . |
| 7 | North Tyneside is a ‘ programme authority ’ for the purposes of urban programming , which puts it in the second highest division of local authorities for central assistance , which is inner-city related . |
| 8 | ’ Nobody expects it from a well-dressed , well-spoken girl , especially in designer shops . |
| 9 | Ltd. ( ‘ the dock company ’ ) , which operates it as a commercial port . |
| 10 | A small arched pole is then threaded through a sleeve in the front of the flysheet which extends it into a good size porch . |
| 11 | The decision has drawn protests from environmentalists , who warn that it could have a damaging effect on the Danube valley ecosystem , and the Hungarian government , which views it as a possible infringement of territorial integrity . |
| 12 | And as if to point up this change Bukharin declared , ‘ Our Red Army , which is to an enormous extent composed of peasants , is the greatest cultural machine for the re-education of the peasantry , which leaves it with a new mentality . ’ |
| 13 | Whatever the grandeur of the situation she transcends it with a sweet serenity which mesmerizes everyone . |
| 14 | She handles it like a sophisticated traveller unthreatened by a new airport . |
| 15 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 16 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 17 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
| 18 | John gives Mary the coin , she hides it in the red box for safe-keeping and departs . |
| 19 | If she does so and the husband purchases the replacement house for her , and she occupies it on the same terms , a subsequent transfer to her of that house will not be within the terms of the concession ( see p18 ) because that house will never have been a matrimonial home . |
| 20 | One is not really aware of the pain as being in a certain place ; one is aware of the pain , and one connects it with a certain place , rather as one connects different sorts of sensations with different sorts of malady — rheumatism , indigestion , and so on . |
| 21 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 22 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 23 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 24 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 25 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 26 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 28 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 29 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 30 | He fills it with a restless , bristling energy , as if he might clamber out of the frame and into real life . |