Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It supplies about a hundred pubs , and three large hotels in Skegness . |
| 2 | It tore past me , and I suddenly knew : the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul . |
| 3 | But there is more meaning in the word slum than simply a foul street or yard : it denotes also a certain quality of housing . |
| 4 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 5 | Back in 1984 Trade Indemnity , which reckons it records around a fifth of all the business failures in the UK , noted 3,924 failures . |
| 6 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 11 | For someone determined to make money from an early age , it represents quite a failure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 15 | It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion . |
| 16 | It became successively a fish market , a cheap restaurant , and finally a store for the London County Council . |
| 17 | Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’ |
| 18 | And then it became perhaps a troublesome er entity . |
| 19 | and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job |
| 20 | It became subsequently a very celebrated and gallant defeat indeed , as the subject-matter of the great Anglo-Norman epic of the Chanson de Roland , composed at least 300 years after the event . |
| 21 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 22 | It offers neither a single all-embracing encoding scheme , solving all problems once for all , nor an unstructured collection of tagsets . |
| 23 | The government had promised a White Paper on inner cities , but in March 1988 it produced instead a thirty-two page glossy colour brochure , Action for Cities , and twelve separate press releases . |
| 24 | Today the inner enclosure should still be the climax of the fort , but the sight of it produces only a sensation of severe anticlimax . |
| 25 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 26 | It made quite an impression on me . |
| 27 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 28 | It created quite a stir on the camp when they left , as it was decided they would take all their ground crews with them in gliders . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |