Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 2 | It is a little bit weak and it lacks a bit of punch . |
| 3 | And and then er I took it to the station as well , but I could n't get many other voices , they were a bit garbled but it works really well ! |
| 4 | She finds our convent hateful because it cuts her off from the light , the air , and the sun to which she is accustomed . |
| 5 | The language is a bit spicy but it did n't put me off in the slightest . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately he 's still a bit dozy when it comes to starting . ’ |
| 7 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 8 | It was a bit different as it turned out . |
| 9 | He had a reputation for being a bit slow-witted but it did n't perturb him in the least . |
| 10 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 11 | True religion makes spiritual progress easier because it provides a vocabulary , a structure and a community , all of which can help people to attend to this dimension . |
| 12 | In the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 13 | Yes but why did Hitachi Data Systems Ltd choose the name Osiris for its new mainframe Unix combination ( see front ) : in the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 14 | The removal of the box at Pinmore made his photograph possible as it gave an unimpeded view of the subject . |
| 15 | ‘ Vehicular traffic light signal ’ is defined as follows : ‘ Three lights shall be used , one red , one amber and one green … the lamp showing the amber light shall be capable of showing a steady light or a flashing light such that it flashes at a rate of not less than 70 nor more than 90 flashes per minute etc . |
| 16 | The flask was a deal emptier than it had been before the dinner break . |
| 17 | Carried away on a rushing tide of dark enchantment , she quivered as his tongue caressed her skin , his mouth feather-light as it brushed enticingly , back and forth , over her swollen nipples . |
| 18 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
| 19 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 20 | Just build up of , erm I was talking to our Tom about nosebleeds , Alan was saying that his father used to be a lot like David and he used to get terrible headaches and it used to end up in a really bad nosebleed and he started giving blood regular and it stopped it . |
| 21 | The TPLF acknowledged on Jan. 6 that it had staged a " strategic withdrawal " from Debre Tabor . |
| 22 | It was not until I saw a sailor much smaller than myself performing in a Force 6 that it dawned on me that the answer must lie in a good technique . |
| 23 | Externally , Safrane is slightly larger than the Renault 25 that it replaces , gaining 28mm in height , 12mm in width and 21mm in overall length . |
| 24 | The most notable early landscape was the Thomas Moran Wyoming scene featured in the Transco catalogue cover ( lot 14 est. $150–200,000 ) that brought $240,000 ( £150,000 ) after a keen telephone battle ( a price $90,000 higher than it brought at Christie 's in 1984 ) . |
| 25 | Unfortunately Infinitary rule 1 as it stands is not strong enough to give us a complete system when the set of basic values is infinite . |
| 26 | Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million . |
| 27 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 28 | The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government announced on Jan. 23 that it had accepted " with only slight amendments " a peace plan to end its 15-year civil war with the National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , the US-backed rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi . |
| 29 | The extension of the LFA has left this gross anomaly unaffected since it brings in land at the lower elevations outside the original LFA boundary . |
| 30 | It was in Meiji 22nd that it became so . |