Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It supplies about a hundred pubs , and three large hotels in Skegness . |
| 2 | But there is more meaning in the word slum than simply a foul street or yard : it denotes also a certain quality of housing . |
| 3 | Back in 1984 Trade Indemnity , which reckons it records around a fifth of all the business failures in the UK , noted 3,924 failures . |
| 4 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 5 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 6 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East . |
| 8 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 9 | For someone determined to make money from an early age , it represents quite a failure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is not necessary to reach agreement with Dr Bryan 's moral scheme in order to see that it involves quite a different moral emphasis from that projected on to the 1930s by post-war nostalgia . |
| 12 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 13 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 14 | It offers neither a single all-embracing encoding scheme , solving all problems once for all , nor an unstructured collection of tagsets . |
| 15 | Today the inner enclosure should still be the climax of the fort , but the sight of it produces only a sensation of severe anticlimax . |
| 16 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |
| 17 | Whatever the status of this piece of research in modern psychoanalysis , it needs only a cursory glance at the problem pages of women 's magazines , particularly those for an older readership , to find that this syndrome of the woman who considers herself happily married , yet is bewildered by the concept of orgasm which she herself has never experienced , is still familiar . |
| 18 | It needs only a couple of well-publicized mercy flights to the United States and appropriate patriotic breast-beating to ensure that liver transplant units spring up like desert flowers after the rain . |
| 19 | ( Since this is so filling , it needs only a small green salad to accompany it . ) |
| 20 | Although the BPVT is a language test , it covers only a relatively narrow range of strictly linguistic abilities — that is , comprehension of single vocabulary items . |
| 21 | Yeah , some others are nice it looks already a , you know , it looks already old fashioned |
| 22 | For years I bet that mind you it looks quite a newish one that one and son . |
| 23 | Cos it looks quite a decent reasonable bungalow . |
| 24 | It has also a certain originality which provides a small surprise at the end of the meal . |
| 25 | These days it has also a dependency in the mountains beyond , a winter-sports and high-summer Annexe , called Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin , at 5 , 500 feet . |
| 26 | It has just a switch and a lamp for each of the 16 things ( or groups of things ) under control . |
| 27 | It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise . |
| 28 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 29 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 30 | It has only a small interest in furniture at present , having built up an enthusiastic stock market following with an unbroken record of sales and profit growth in bathroom and kitchen equipment since its was founded in 1979 . |