Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carried out behind closed doors — in workrooms , laboratories and offices — it rarely gets a mention in the media despite the fact that excavations are often featured . |
| 2 | In other words , although CDTV is designed to look like appliance technology , it discreetly provides a conversion option making it possible , if desired , to turn CDTV into an overt computer system . |
| 3 | As a group develops , it slowly attains a responsibility towards the people who work for it . |
| 4 | Salgado 's photo-essay opens a window onto a world that seems authentically antique — as far off as when the Pyramids were being built — but it presumably touched a nerve with editors because it is also a parable of greed with global relevance . |
| 5 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 6 | As chairman Sir Peter Thompson explains in his statement , ‘ With the spotlight on corporate governance following the report of the Cadbury Committee , we have felt it right to make a statement on how the group complies with best practice in this area . ’ |
| 7 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 8 | It effectively initiated a programme of council-house building that has continued , albeit subject to regular modification as governments have changed the subsidy arrangements , until the present day . |
| 9 | As a group swells in size with natural increase of population and with new members joining it from outside , it eventually reaches a point where it ceases to enjoy an optimum exploitative relationship with its physical and economic resources . |
| 10 | It eventually saved a year 's tyre wear on the Class 317s , and meant a lot more string and sticky tape on the clapped-out DMUs . |
| 11 | And he did — but it only lasted a week ! |
| 12 | It only lasted a matter of seconds , but when Fen lifted his head Robbie felt incapable of speech and movement . |
| 13 | At all events , it only lasted a moment . |
| 14 | If they were held at bay longer than they anticipated and carried into the final day , it only seemed a stay of execution for the West Indies . |
| 15 | It only takes a current of a few nanoamps to develop enough voltage to break down the insulation and make a hole in the silicon . |
| 16 | TAKE THAT : ‘ Take That And Party ’ Brit equivalent of New Kids offer their 12-track debut , featuring two Top 20 singles , ‘ It Only Takes A Minute ’ and ‘ I Found Heaven ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It only takes a minute . |
| 18 | Richard Waterhouse , who runs the RAC 's Child Safety Campaign , said : ‘ It only takes a minute to ensure a child is safely strapped in . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It only takes a couple of minutes before the flysheet is in place . |
| 21 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 22 | It only takes a couple of players to have mediocre starts for them and they will be down there and lose confidence . |
| 23 | It only takes a couple od slip-ups ( including vs US ) and that gap may look at little more realistic . |
| 24 | I should replace it , but usually it only takes a bit of tinkering to get it going again . |
| 25 | Below that , it sounds more like a traditional diesel , and it does lack response at times , but it only takes a bit of getting used to . |
| 26 | it usually , it only takes a day once they 've received it , if that 's alright ? |
| 27 | It only takes a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Japan , for example , and we 're inundated with Japanese tourists in Britain . |
| 28 | It only takes a moment 's carelessness to make a present of your valuables to the thief . |
| 29 | Crawford 's big production number , It Only Takes a Moment , came during the film 's last half-hour , as Cornelius Hackl declares his love for Irene Molloy , played by Marianne McAndrew . |
| 30 | A respectable attempt at comic characterization , its undiminished contrivance ultimately mars the simplicity of It Only Takes a Moment , already performed as a send-up of movie love balladry , with townspeople and extras wandering in for the chorus . ’ |