Example sentences of "[noun prp] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |
| 2 | This had been substantially rewritten since publication of the first draft in February [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , some of the revisions reflecting conservative criticism of the party leadership , but as delivered by Gorbachev it still came across as a spirited defence of his perestroika reform policies . |
| 3 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
| 4 | In February it publicly reprimanded the insurer for failing to be tough enough with its agents . |
| 5 | In Arthur Christiansen it too had an inspirational editor and expert newspaper technician . |
| 6 | Keith Richardson says it was an excellent Gloucester performance and with Wales beating England it just goes to show that the formbook can be beaten and Gloucester could well beat Bath on Saturday if they run and tackle as hard as they did in this game . |
| 7 | The Imperial Airways ground staff at Karachi assisted with the repair of the Croydon , but without the facilities available in England it still took several weeks . |
| 8 | National growth was uneven ; in the north of England it quickly took root although in the northwest and in Wales it grew more slowly ; it was always weak in Liverpool . |
| 9 | As the cabin cruiser The Aznewts approached the bank of the River Severn at Holt Fleet in Worcester it suddenly rolled over throwing three of the crew overboard . |
| 10 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 11 | Two of the stars in the Square point downward to Fomalhaut in Piscis Australis , which is the southernmost of the first-magnitude stars to be visible from Britain ; from South England and New York latitudes it can be seen easily enough , but from North Scotland it barely rises . |
| 12 | But talk about a hassle they wanted , they , well they picked the be the pr you know the present that you c you claim erm , a deep fryer and I think it was in March time and by July it still had n't come in spite of ringing and writing and everything else |
| 13 | On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible . |
| 14 | John Cole It really takes the biscuit How much longer can we tolerate mass starvation ? |
| 15 | ‘ Anybody who shows good form between now and the end of June must stand a very good chance , and with the Amateur at Portrush it certainly helps people from this province . ’ |
| 16 | In the centre of a rich and densely populated countryside with ready access by canal and river to 5 of the most populous counties in Ireland it still remained ‘ but a small town of very insignificant appearance ’ with only about 867 inhabitants . |
| 17 | ‘ I only pray that we never pull out of Northern Ireland it really has to be ‘ No Surrender ’ . |
| 18 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 19 | Story has it that when Minton hung this portrait at Allen Street it so offended an art critic that he spat at it . |
| 20 | In November it also became the birthplace of Rolling Stone magazine . |
| 21 | Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans ; beyond it — unknowable nomads ! |
| 22 | Unfortunately for Rory Finegan it also allowed costs to An Bord Pleanala , the IDA and Raybestos Manhattan , estimated at £10,000 . |
| 23 | While this attitude of hostility to immigrant groups was less severe in west Africa it certainly played a role in Ghana from Nkrumah 's period , and in Nigeria as a result of the ‘ localization ’ decree of 1974 . |
| 24 | The Cross is descending in the south-west , followed by the Pointers ; Canopus is so low that it will probably not be seen , and from parts of Australia and South Africa it actually sets . |
| 25 | In the case of Algeria and Israel it strongly advised the EC Commission to delay disbursement of funds until firm guarantees on respect for human rights had been received from the respective governments . |
| 26 | When Lilly finally handed over reports from the June symposium to the Committee on Safety of Medicines on 7 October it also proposed that the data sheets of information to doctors be changed to recommend ‘ half doses to the elderly ’ , according to the DHSS press office , or ‘ reduction of dosage to over 75s ’ according to the health minister . |
| 27 | The first version comprises a repository based on Portable Common Tools Environment technology from GIE Emeraude , Louveciennes , and the Neutral Information Model , which in turn is based largely on the Exchange repository interfacing technology from Software One Ltd , Marlow , UK It also includes a control integration system based on IBM Corp 's SDE WorkBench/6000 , which is derived from Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench . |
| 28 | J. H. Plumb has raised the interesting question ‘ Why did history develop in Europe , whereas in China it never extracted itself from the iron grip of the past in the service of the present ? ’ |
| 29 | CATHERINE It often happens . |
| 30 | It looked like an eye Jo it really did . |