Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] it [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I felt very down , but once he began to need my milk it seemed worthwhile and I gradually began to produce a little more at each pumping .
2 Fortunately I have never had this problem either with ferrets or dogs but should it ever hit my animals it means more than just the loss of the ferrets .
3 For their part it seems likely that his errors and omissions were welcomed by Lewis and Shinwell as an excuse for breaking away from a situation and a personality they disliked in order to establish their own unions in their own communities
4 But as time passed and the Stewards had still not delivered their decision it became obvious that the matter was not so clearcut .
5 By 1852 the Court was established in the form which it was to retain until 1870 , and from its inception it became clear that this was not only a new Court but a new type of court .
6 She lay perfectly still , knowing that when the light , filmy shift settled over her body it revealed more than it hid .
7 Through her experiments it became evident that , despite the extensive elaboration of wine descriptors and the beliefs of the participants , neither lay persons nor experts were actually communicating knowledge about wines to their fellows in conversation , such that the wine referred to could be recognized from linguistic description alone ( Lehrer 1983 ) .
8 Despite their differences it seemed likely that if no result was reported by 31 January the AFPFL and Communists would both revolt .
9 Biogeography was the principal source of Darwin 's theory of evolution , but to most of his contemporaries it seemed obvious that the starting point for any investigation of the history of life on earth must be the fossil record .
10 With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time .
11 Even before his accident it seemed doubtful that my aunt would ever have a child of her own .
12 But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered .
13 In our day it seems incredible that the landscape was at one time of no consideration to artists — and maybe the people in it .
14 In our patient it seems probable that the low concentrations reflected the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency .
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