Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were speculators , who hoped to sell it for even more than the showroom price even though it meant tying up a £50,000 deposit for four years . |
| 2 | The final alignment began at Haifa Bay , passed overland through the Jezreel and Bet Shean Valleys , and followed the Jordan Rift Valley southwards until it reached the northern shore of the Dead Sea . |
| 3 | Sony Corporation 's Tape Recorder Division tried to redesign a small portable tape recorder so that it gave stereophonic sound . |
| 4 | On the journey our eldest child picked up bubonic plague , and when the steamer moored at Chauk my wife managed to get medicines from the BOC Hospital shortly before it closed . |
| 5 | A layer of heavy-gauge builder 's polythene can then be used to line the excavation as a safety precaution against leaking , but also as a means of retaining moisture within the setting concrete so that it dries as slowly as possible . |
| 6 | Fig. 3 ( b ) Having rammed the soil down firmly to ensure a firm base , a layer of heavy-gauge builder 's polythene is used to line the excavation as a safety precaution against leaking and also to help retain moisture within the setting concrete so that it dries as slowly as possible . |
| 7 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 8 | And the audience laughed , with relief rather than humor , and from somewhere at the back someone clapped loudly , making the laughter rise again before it subsided into silence . |
| 9 | The exception was clothing , which bucked the trend of the rest of the UK textile industry partly because it supplies Marks & Spencer , and partly because it makes very little in the UK . |
| 10 | The images of angels are much more ambiguous and capable of different interpretations ( this could , of course , be said of the angel theme generally as it recurs in the history of art , and in various guises across different cultures ) . |
| 11 | Wilcock had written about Haynes and his Edinburgh bookshop in the Village Voice soon after it had opened , and had popped up in the one-off Longhair Times too . |
| 12 | Views were being sought by 30 July on a proposed change in the 1985 Companies Act to exempt from disclosure in client company accounts payments for non-audit services made to companies which have become associates of an audit firm solely because it has gained voting rights in them in an insolvency appointment . |
| 13 | The coupled signal causes the current I and potential difference V to fluctuate about the values and corresponding to the point O. Assuming that the capacitor exhibits negligible reactance at the operating frequency so that it couples the signal properly , Thévenin transformation reveals an effective signal circuit connected to the nonlinear network terminals comprising e.m.f. in series with resistance . |
| 14 | Mrs Palichuk sank onto a scarlet kitchen chair and eased off her drab grey winter coat so that it draped over the back , retaining , however , the black kerchief which modestly veiled her hair . |
| 15 | That is one reason why we look forward to some progress being made with the Milk Marketing Board so that it becomes a real marketing institution . |
| 16 | Using a brush and diluted green and blue food colouring , paint the quarter globe of white on the cake drum so that it looks like Earth . |
| 17 | Pus the white foam washer on to the waste outlet so that it sits flush against the underside of the outlet rim |
| 18 | The kite might start to climb , then perform a curving sweep up to about 45 degrees , execute a beautiful turn and point head downwards until it crashes into the ground . |
| 19 | I was told there used to be a safety barrier there but it kept being knocked down so it was n't of putting er safety barriers up there bollards . |
| 20 | We need not a tinkering with security policy — a change here and a change there — but a root-and-branch change in security policy so that it changes from a reactive one to a proactive one and becomes a policy of going after the IRA , of taking the fight to the IRA . |
| 21 | The Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) federal Prime Minister , Brian Mulroney , eventually overcame this obstacle by using an arcane constitutional device to create a PCP majority in the upper chamber ; however , the Liberals used procedural and judicial processes to delay the tax legislation so that it did not receive its royal assent until Dec. 17 . |
| 22 | Spread the American frosting over the body of the sheep and swirl with a palette knife so that it looks like a woolly coat . |
| 23 | Even if you are confident of your ability to manage a compost heap so that it becomes hot enough to cleanse itself of disease spores , there remains the risk of the subsequent compost matter containing thorns which are extremely resistant to decomposition . |
| 24 | He said that the government would consider developing community radio only when it knows the outcome of the 1984 conference . |
| 25 | Mr Brown argued for changes to the tax system so that it assisted people who undertook training , and for new incentives for companies which upgraded staff skills . |
| 26 | You could try blocking all daylight except when viewing or have a trickle feed from the mains tap so that it flushes continuously or just use lots of elbow grease . |
| 27 | In other cases it is not true ; for example , a flight will be available in an airline booking system long before it takes place . |
| 28 | But is it possible to sharpen the trial procedure so that it does function as an effective arbiter of the truth value of the police case ? |
| 29 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 30 | One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result . |