Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [det] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 2 | It may be too that in the lower regions of society women were freer to find at least part-time employment : the distaff provided occupation for almost all , and even if the invention of the spinning wheel may have reduced the opportunities for some , it enormously increased those of others . |
| 3 | Beside the arms of Aarau , it also bears those of Bern . |
| 4 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 5 | It reluctantly accepted many of Gorbachev 's proposed reforms ( it had no alternative to offer , apart from more of the policies of the past — and no effective alternative leader ) , but conservatives with vested interests tried to restore the status quo in the 1991 coup attempt . |