Example sentences of "it [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 2 | What struck me , however , was how distant the preoccupations of the audience were from those which could capture a majority in modern Britain , or could govern it successfully if that majority were ever won . |
| 3 | To establish whether or not a claim submitted by a contractor is valid , and to dispute it successfully if it is not , the client must ensure that accurate records are kept on his of her behalf . |
| 4 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 5 | The IPG states clearly that it is designed for advice workers , but many instances have proved that clients have used it successfully when left to browse by hard-pressed advisers — an indication of its clarity of exposition and potential as a tool for those members of the public who feel they can cope without personal assistance and someone to listen . |
| 6 | Rolle expresses it metaphorically as speech becomes song . |
| 7 | Dreaming Lee took to this camera immediately and held it delicately and lifted the front-flap and looked through it in order to focus on something and take a picture of it . |
| 8 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 9 | That would have reduced exposure ; but it is so small a step from cutting the level to removing it altogether that perhaps that is now a wiser move given the shift in public opinion . |
| 10 | Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not . |
| 11 | One Tory back-bencher dismissed the VAT proposal as ‘ mental ’ while others predicted that the Government would eventually be forced to scrap it altogether or at least reduce the planned amount . |
| 12 | Film wrapping is now available without plasticisers , with the label ‘ non PVC ’ or ‘ contains no plasticisers ’ but , because of the disposal problem such packaging presents , it is better to avoid it altogether if possible . |
| 13 | Another example of law not being especially important is that businesses avoid it altogether when commercial disputes arise . |
| 14 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 15 | But even then , they can not avoid it altogether and after a while , their digestions can no longer tolerate it . |
| 16 | And then they used to go with their slate and and they knew it altogether and then the counter turns and turns like that . |
| 17 | This could either involve removing it altogether and blocking up the space with bricks and mortar , or simply locking it and putting furniture against it on both sides . |
| 18 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 19 | The record needs to be put straight on certain issues , and women animators are in a position to do it powerfully and poignantly . |
| 20 | The trick is to do it little and often — notice what they do in the fast food chains , ’ Davies says . |
| 21 | The trustee must examine every proof of debt and admit it wholly or in part for dividend . |
| 22 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 23 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 24 | Somebody put it on after you blow the candles out |
| 25 | You turned it on but nothing is happening — blank screen , no whirring noise , no beeps , no flashing lights . |
| 26 | I mean , that 's really funny , is n't it — we did n't have anything to play it on but we still thought it was great . |
| 27 | Oh I I mean I have n't been I had it on but I put it off because it was |
| 28 | and I said well I want it on but he said you 'll have to go for this . |
| 29 | You know I thought once or twice about putting it on but mm go enough |
| 30 | I 've been able to turn it on but it ai n't been |