Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a little bit weak and it lacks a bit of punch . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | She finds our convent hateful because it cuts her off from the light , the air , and the sun to which she is accustomed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately he 's still a bit dozy when it comes to starting . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Externally , Safrane is slightly larger than the Renault 25 that it replaces , gaining 28mm in height , 12mm in width and 21mm in overall length . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Roger , Roger , is n't the human mind ingenious when it comes to plotting the destruction of another being ? |
| 13 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 14 | But you might find the cottage a bit draughty if it gets really rough . ’ |
| 15 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 16 | Such a policy is clearly unlawful discrimination under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 because it differentiates between men and women , even though it is based on the unequal state pension age . |
| 17 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 18 | Illus.4 shows the opening of Act 5 as it appears in both quartos . |
| 19 | It is 3.5″ long x 1.5″ wide x 2″ deep and it seems to be made of brown Bakalite ( like the old radios were made of ) . |
| 20 | Exports to Germany have risen 18% to £1.2 billion and it has consolidated its position as Scotland 's top export market . |
| 21 | I 've read ZZAP ! since Issue 81 and it beats the other mags into a pulp . |
| 22 | IBM Corp is using the 88110 in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got them in volume : a 40MHz 88110 offers roughly the performance of a 33MHz SuperSparc . |
| 23 | IBM is using it in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got volumes . |
| 24 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |
| 25 | References below to the 1988 Act are to the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 as it applies to the semiconductor design right . |
| 26 | Our clients understand it ceased trading on December 24 and it follows that the reference NatWest gave was worthless . ’ |
| 27 | Chantelle Goddard the coach says it 's nearly like snow … a bit hard but it gives the youngsters an ideal opportunity to train … |
| 28 | And I would suggest that the that is putting it within the er remit of paragraph three three of P P G three that it offers the opportunity to er upgrade areas of low landscape value . |
| 29 | And that again is emphasised by P P three and it goes back to the erm the o the object of sustainability and reducing C O two emissions . |
| 30 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |