Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I joined the NCT , like most members , I did so because I wanted the best antenatal classes possible and it seemed that I would have the chance to meet new mothers and make new friends after the birth too . |
| 9 | Erm it 's a few years old but it 's hardly had any use . |
| 10 | Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed . |
| 11 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |
| 12 | At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 13 | The computer was twenty thousand years old and it wanted to be friends with me ! |
| 14 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 15 | Increasing aggregate demand along with expansionary fiscal policy-lower taxes , raised government expenditures on transfers and goods and services-looks attractive as it moves the economy towards full employment at . |
| 16 | But the half time whistle has gone , four minutes late but it 's gone . |
| 17 | It 's only five minutes long but it saves the day . |
| 18 | The welfare system , runs this view , makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour . |
| 19 | How far this reorientation extended was likely to depend at least as much upon the responses of Western governments and the behaviour of the other states concerned as it did upon the Soviet authorities themselves . |
| 20 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 21 | With a take-off at 0815 hours on the 10th , GR 3 RF325 was to spend seven hours airborne as it flew from St Mawgan for flypasts at St Eval , Pembroke Dock , Ballykelly , Aldergrove , Kinloss , Topcliffe and back to ‘ Mawgan . |
| 22 | Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ? |
| 23 | Pate 's Grammar School in Cheltenham , which opted out of local authority control three years ago , faces making teachers redundant if it does n't find the money by April . |
| 24 | The vessel is described as being about six inches tall and it has been suggested that it may have been used as a chalice , and it might have originated in Spain or Syria and been brought home to England from one of the Crusades . |
| 25 | Not only does this clarify the nature of the authorities competent to issue and execute letters rogatory but it makes mandatory as between parties to the Protocol the use of Central Authorities both for the outward transmission and inward receipt of letters rogatory ; that there is an obligation to designate a Central Authority , a matter not wholly clear in the text of the Convention , is specifically provided in Article 2 of the Protocol . |
| 26 | compounded by the fact that the web of this disease spreads ever outward into society and incorporates many different and apparently conflictual sectors of the socio-economic and political systems such that it becomes very difficult to combat its influence |
| 27 | Erm it would be for the the policy itself to define the criteria such that it did only refer to exceptional circumstances and the occasional one or two cases . |
| 28 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 29 | Though the Enhanced Security product is the culmination of a five-year development effort , the company says that the really tough part was providing the documentation and analyses to convince UK testing house Secure Information Systems Ltd that it had actually done the work . |
| 30 | Though the Enhanced Security product is the culmination of a five-year development effort , the company says that the really tough part was providing the documentation and analyses to convince UK testing house Secure Information Systems Ltd that it had actually done the work . |