Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It could be quite a useful preparation for a nervous or beginner skier as it relates the feeling of skiing to everyday activities , eg riding a bicycle and driving a car .
2 nice try Gary but it did n't work
3 At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour .
4 Shevers , who had already dropped the name Hawk 72 for the new aircraft , opting instead for ‘ Liberty ’ , says he is concerned that Textron , which already produces engines for light aircraft , may decide that resumption of single-engined aircraft production does not represent such an increase in its product liability exposure as it did for Cessna 's former parent General Dynamics .
5 The employees at Binns on High Row volunteered for the yearlong course after it came up in the company 's suggestion scheme .
6 Furthermore , within Compact there is a strong incentive for employers to participate in this sort of curriculum support since it provides insights into the ways the schools which they are partnering approach learning .
7 If you accept that unanimity is a near Impossibility , and that a majority decision is the next best thing , you also have to accept , as a general rule , that you will abide by a majority decision when it turns out that you are among the minority .
8 Take it along to a trick cyclist if it bothers you . ’
9 Having worked for the influential retailer Woodhouse since it opened in 1975 , Guy Tolson is well-placed to analyse the ebb and flow of trends in fashionable menswear .
10 It is important to consider the wider implications of the revenue support grant settlement as it applies to all London .
11 It was black and scalding with a kick like a Galloway bulls and it spread like fire through my tired frame .
12 Unfortunately , London University 's proposal that the Witt should become self-financing comes just as the Getty computer programme is ending its support of the Witt Computer Index because it has changed its policy from building up a vast database of its own to producing systems for accessing other databases .
13 Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups .
14 Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August .
15 Strategic partnerships with software companies are the order of the day at Compaq Computer Corp as it tries to transform itself into a much more broadly-based systems manufacturer , and according to Computerworld , the latest is with Oracle Corp .
16 ABSEILING 130ft from maltings at Bury St Edmunds is not everyone 's ideal Saturday afternoon pastime but it suited our daring duo from the maltings , and from Export .
17 When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb .
18 John wound up the toy car so it went .
19 *John wound up the toy car because it went .
20 I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets .
21 Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands .
22 The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October .
23 The process , which a highly skilled operator controls through a keyboard , itself caused a revolution in the printing industry when it appeared in the 1890s , putting many hand composers out of a job .
24 She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy .
25 The bulk of coil production is for the building industry but it has a wide range of other applications , from washing machines to venetian blinds .
26 The barley which is grown in the Borders is particularly useful to the whisky industry because it has a high starch and low nitrogen content .
27 She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes .
28 Now the diode is reverse biased and the capacitor can charge until the feedback makes the output switch back to its original saturation level where it remains in the absence of a further trigger pulse .
29 The force-push of expanding gas on the piston is multiplied by the leverage effect of the conrod , then again by the leverage-increasing effect of gear pairs before it reaches the driving wheels .
30 Management consultants are not quite in the American lawyer category when it comes to vilification , but they attract their fair share ( well almost … ) : the Financial Times defines a management consultant as someone who sees something working in practice and wonders whether it will work in theory …
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