Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social anthropologists have had great difficulty in giving a clear definition of taboo , because it involves both an element of the sacred , the holy , and of the uncanny , the forbidden , and the dangerous . |
| 2 | It made quite an impression on me . |
| 3 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |
| 4 | It assumed also an absence of political interference . |
| 5 | It seemed rather an odd thing to do , but perfectly in tune with the occasion . |
| 6 | It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be . |
| 7 | He made it sound quite an ordinary request and I did n't like to ask why . |
| 8 | It includes both an ObjectMaster Editor for non-programmers to build graphical apps and an ObjectMaster Application Folder that acts as a central repository for application modules that can be reused , recombined or extended to build additional application prototypes and ultimately components in production applications . |
| 9 | It takes nearly an hour to negotiate the course of a conversation . |
| 10 | ‘ It takes away an individual 's dignity and a family 's self-respect . |
| 11 | It takes about an hour to travel the length of the lake in complete silence . |
| 12 | Well Marg I mean I phoned Margaret , she said it takes about an hour . |
| 13 | A pack of chili sauce , somebody go and get to get it on , it takes about an hour . |
| 14 | It takes about an hour to take it off . |
| 15 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 16 | It took nearly an hour for her to empty the wardrobe and dressing-table . |
| 17 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
| 18 | It took almost an hour for Murray to prepare an 15-word statement saying : ‘ I can confirm the ball was changed at lunch-time but will make no further comment . ’ |
| 19 | Charlie , who turned out to be a regular size , was dealt with fairly quickly , but it took almost an hour to find anything that did n't make Tommy look as if he was entering a sack race . |
| 20 | You mean , during the day or well it took about an hour say . |
| 21 | Modern elite theory differs from its antecedents in aristocratic and normative elitism because it puts forward an empirical picture of the way human societies operate which is not closely linked to a particular view of the way social arrangements should be organized . |
| 22 | If she or her children return before the ashes become cold , it becomes again an ahi-ka , but there is a difference of opinion whether the grandchildren can recover their rights in that way , but there is no doubt that the great grandchildren can not do so unless they are expressly invited and welcomed by the tribe . " |
| 23 | They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on . |
| 24 | ‘ It had quite an effect because only the other day a London record store asked if it was going to be released again . ’ |
| 25 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 26 | This property is , however , not conceptualized as something in itself ( a kind of mystical link between people and things as it is with fully developed private property ) because it remains only an aspect of the social relations of which the tribe consists . |
| 27 | The major drawback with the Byrne approach , however , is that it provides only an incidental guide to the way in which the services might be allocated between different types of local authority . |
| 28 | In other words , whilst necessary to the system on both practical and symbolic levels , and a strengthening factor to the positive definition , it remained also an offence to the ideal , marginal to the correct order , and therefore dangerous . |
| 29 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |