Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS .
2 A great deal could be written on the contrast between Chaucer and Gower reflected here : one might note , for instance , that incest plays a relatively small part in the tale of Appollonius , and that it is hardly condoned in the Canace and Machaire story of Gower although it is romantically treated in a tragic and sympathetic manner .
3 However , the sea air deteriorated the steel work and it was offered on loan to the MRT where it was cosmetically restored and placed on display .
4 Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it .
5 Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres .
6 The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks .
7 ‘ He is still the right man for the job , ’ said Kelly and it is now understood the issue will not even be on the agenda when the Football Association holds its annual meeting at Bournemouth on June 26 , a week after the conclusion of the ill-fated US Cup tour .
8 Darlington 's first hospital opened in Russell Street and it was later replaced by Greenbank Hospital in 1885 .
9 JCU , or JCF as it was often called , was very much a part of the build-up of the Canberra force at Binbrook .
10 It 's project engineering Roger but it 's actually saying that the project manager needs to be trained to ferret out certain information .
11 The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things .
12 This date is too late for the birth of Jesus as it is well known that Jesus was born in the reign of Herod the Great , who died in 4 BC .
13 I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place .
14 She says he 's very happy and it 's very important to him that 's he 's arrived at Stoke Manceville because it 's well known .
15 You may have come across Roget as it is affectionately called , but we are willing to bet that not many of our readers habitually use the book or have it on their shelves .
16 More than 40 years later , on a drizzly Friday morning in October , I seek out the rue Didouche Mourad as it is now called .
17 There is even one report of a couple of Russian geologists hopping on to the bouldery surface of an aa flow on the slopes of the Klyuchevskaya volcano in Kamchatka while it was still moving .
18 As an example of phonetic differences at the segmental level , it is said that Australian English has the same set of phonemes and phonemic contrasts as RP , yet Australian pronunciation is so different from RP that it is easily recognised as such .
19 After the horses were released from the machine and the ditch , we walked leisurely to the inn , only regretting that the clouds hung so heavily over Loch Maree that it was completely obscured .
20 It is presumed that they were then introduced at BMK but it is also recorded that hand loom weaving had already stopped at Burnside in 1881 when second hand power looms rom Crossleys of Halifax were introduced .
21 It 's April and it 's probably going to rain .
22 ‘ Someone takes five copies out of Sarajevo where it is faxed through to Geneva , phoned to Zagreb where it can be relayed by fax to London and it is also printed in Tuzla and Zenica . ’
23 I used the bike extensively around London and it was perfectly suited to dealing the city 's often poor roads .
24 Your doctor prescribes it as Prozac but it 's already earned the nickname the happiness pill , but is it safe ?
25 It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 .
26 Based on research done at Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre or , PARC as it is widely known , the Apple Lisa was the first commercial micro to take these concepts to the mass market .
27 The match hinged on the confrontation between Christy O'Connor Jnr and Mark James and it was effectively settled at the first hole .
28 No doubt she had spoken English with Russell and it was all coming back to her .
29 Kingfisher — or Woolworths as it was then called — was still being reshaped under the guidance of Mulcahy and his team , who had spearheaded a buy-out of the company from its US parent four years earlier .
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