Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 2 | With Hitchock in this mood it already looks a good signing and Porterfield said : ‘ We are not bringing the Russian to take Kevin 's place . |
| 3 | Standing lonely and remote in a geographical position roughly half way between the Orkneys and Shetland Islands people that know Fair Isle would perhaps agree that on most days it rather belies a somewhat optimistic name . |
| 4 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 5 | As well as a comparable curved stretch of wavecrest pattern , in one of its angles it also has a single petal motif which is almost identical to that possessing voluted tendrils at Cirencester . |
| 6 | Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans ; beyond it — unknowable nomads ! |
| 7 | The walk has a good middle in the form of the countryside centre , but like any decent excursion it also has a good beginning and a good end . |
| 8 | With such a tool it only needs a little extra pressure to severely weaken the main trace line . |
| 9 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |
| 10 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If one bit of the brook is cleared and not the rest it just creates a problem somewhere else . |
| 13 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But , like all machines it also has a mechanical structure . |
| 16 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 17 | For a large number of firms it also represents a substantial lost business opportunity . |
| 18 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 19 | Whilst sport offered an acceptable outlet for Dominion nationalism it also proved a useful tool for incorporating indigenous rulers into the running of the Empire , especially in India . |
| 20 | In Italy it also involved a major intensification of work . |
| 21 | This request was obviously not well received , for at the bottom of the letter is the hand-written comment : ‘ At first sight it certainly appears a bad case of body snatching , but I assume this is not so . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd like to comment on Mr Grigson 's table , in particular the figure proposed for Ryedale , er his figure is based on the assumption that because Selby gets the new settlement it therefore gets a corresponding reduction in house building elsewhere in the Greater York portion of Selby . |
| 23 | In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded . |
| 24 | ‘ A great deal or risible tosh , ’ sniffed the Telegraph admitting : ‘ At times it even achieves a level of plodding competence . ’ |
| 25 | For more information , together with some useful tips on nutrition and some tempting low-calorie recipes , write for a free leaflet to : The Flour Advisory Bureau It also runs a 24-hour Helpline on 071–4936786 . |
| 26 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 27 | While a welcome improvement it still meant a gap of 3,332 between CNA and average population . |
| 28 | If there is no room to fit a separate shower cubicle , the simplest answer it so fit a bath/shower mixer in place of normal bath taps . |
| 29 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 30 | At the meeting when the Council approved this document it also received a paper entitled ‘ Academic freedoms which might be granted to colleges ’ , directed towards ‘ relaxing controls ’ . |