Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [subord] 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 | She finds our convent hateful because it cuts her off from the light , the air , and the sun to which she is accustomed . |
| 3 | Unfortunately he 's still a bit dozy when it comes to starting . ’ |
| 4 | It was a bit different as it turned out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The removal of the box at Pinmore made his photograph possible as it gave an unimpeded view of the subject . |
| 8 | The flask was a deal emptier than it had been before the dinner break . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Roger , Roger , is n't the human mind ingenious when it comes to plotting the destruction of another being ? |
| 16 | Cos it 's a little bit bigger cos it did n't , it did n't work out completely right , you did a hundred and forty five . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But you might find the cottage a bit draughty if it gets really rough . ’ |
| 19 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
| 20 | Arturo Moreno , the deputy secretary-general , resigned on May 10 after it emerged that the transcript of the taped telephone conversations , lodged with the Supreme Court , implicated him . |
| 21 | But , on reaching it , it proved to be a good twenty feet taller than it appeared , for it grew from the floor of a protective circular sinkhole , perhaps forty yards across , and with vertical walls about twenty feet deep fringed by tangled thorny-vines and spider 's webs . |
| 22 | Miss Rantzen , 52 , won the damages from The People newspaper in December 1991 after it accused her of keeping quiet about an alleged sex pervert . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But they overlook one vital fact — it would have been the simplest thing in the world for the ICC to announce the ball was changed under Law 5 because it had gone out of shape — if that had been true . |
| 25 | Illus.4 shows the opening of Act 5 as it appears in both quartos . |
| 26 | Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it . |
| 27 | If there is a petition , and winding-up ensues , then s 127 of the Insolvency Act 1986 will void the restructuring , leaving a lender unsecured if it took place after the petition . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | IBM is using it in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got volumes . |
| 30 | ‘ Be ready at eleven tomorrow morning ! ’ rapped a voice she would know anywhere , his tone not one whit pleasanter than it had been when he 'd left her flat last night . |