Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adis who appeared before news cameras at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford earlier this week was transferred to Stoke Mandeville because it houses the national spinal injuries centre . |
| 2 | It is one of the unhappy paradoxes of the Whitehall market-place that it reacts to the goad of strong , abrasive ministers like Duncan Sandys , whose revolutionary ideas it detests , and yet is slow to implement the more balanced , evolutionary policies of a Harold Watkinson , for which it craves . |
| 3 | This exception is directed at rationalizing the British Leyland case and it allows for the fact that persons who buy items of equipment may need replacement parts in time and should be able to obtain spare parts in a free market at reasonable cost . |
| 4 | It was he who recommended her to apply to Breakspear College when it started admitting women . |
| 5 | These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium . |
| 6 | It is now 4 years since I gave my first remedy in an LM potency and it has become my preferred method of prescribing for a number of reasons 1 ) No decision has to be made on potency level i.e. whether 6 , 30 , 200 , etc is indicated . |
| 7 | Praxsys founders include engineering vice president , Bob Van Dette , who brought a hand-picked development team over with him from Phoenix Technologies when it bombed out of the emulation business two years ago . |
| 8 | It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me . |
| 9 | People were making a lot of money out of Dr Martens clothing before it existed . |
| 10 | Police pursued the car along the A345 to Bulford village where it crashed . |
| 11 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 12 | It could hardly be Parma Ham if it came from anywhere else . |
| 13 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 14 | And Ros was just saying I mean sh on that , on that Friday she 's due to be in work on that Friday night and it comes on a day she 'll paid time off aspect . |
| 15 | Instead she was gazing sombrely out of the window of a smart Mercedes taxi as it left behind the flat landscaped suburbs of the island of Amager , crossing the bridge to the main island of Zealand and the approach to the city of Copenhagen . |
| 16 | Police suspect the thieves come from outside the Long Eaton area and it 's thought the youngsters who are aged from eight into their early teens may be organized by adults . |
| 17 | Roddick calls it the Marcel Proust questionnaire and it asks such unlikely questions as : How would you like to die ? |
| 18 | Following Japan 's defeat in 1945 , Korea was divided ; South Korea was occupied by United States forces until it became independent as the Republic of Korea in August 1948 . |
| 19 | Africa was always nasty to Miss Mates because it had maimed and nearly killed her treasure . |
| 20 | The dominating size and aggressive shape of Sandweg church reminded Miss Danziger that it had played as great a part in the physical defence of the island as in its spiritual well-being ; but , although its size and shape were awesome at a distance , the church became increasingly a place of sanctuary as she neared it . |
| 21 | I knew a guy who made a fortune out of CB radio when it became legal in Britain . |
| 22 | David Bowie came out properly in a blaze of obvious self-recreation — from Terry Nelhams through Andy Warhol and it touched every suburban heart . |
| 23 | Why initially did the stock market react favourably to the increased dividend declared by Lloyds Bank after it had made a loss of 224 million in the financial year 1986–87 ? |
| 24 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 25 | Steve Edgley and Lee James went to the 18th all square with Mark Saunders and David Hares and it looked as if Gloucester 's tee shot was out of bounds — until the ball hit a tree and stayed in play . |
| 26 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 27 | The march was allowed by police to pass into the vast Manezh Square beside the Kremlin walls after it had overspilled the intended venue for its concluding rally , outside the Moscow city soviet building on Gorky Street , but a heavy police cordon prevented the marchers from entering nearby Red Square . |
| 28 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 29 | Time and again , sons or hired hands were sent vaulting over the dry stone walls to Low Birk Hatt when it became obvious that the Hauxwells were on the point of dropping with exhaustion as they struggled to finish their haymaking or sheep shearing . |
| 30 | His lorry clipped a Renault van as it overturned after a collision with a Daf articulated roofing lorry between Quy and Exning , near Newmarket . |