Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And precisely what distressed her about John 's outburst was that it once more put that distance between them ; it made them opposites sinner and sinned against , penitent and confessor , worm and angel . |
| 2 | " Gabon is specially significant because it probably now has more elephants than any other African country , and so far they have been relatively undisturbed by poachers . |
| 3 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |
| 4 | And it often explicitly contrasted that nature with that of woman . |
| 5 | It quite rightly earned this status through the determination , commitment and insight of its founder director Sue Davies . |
| 6 | For the adult , it no longer provokes much help , since there is little mutual aid between adult felines , but where pet cats are involved it can , of course , act as a useful signal to the cat 's pseudo-parents — its human owners — who may then , like surrogate mother cats , come to its rescue . |
| 7 | More interesting than any of this , though , was the dog which was allowed to bark in the night , presumably on the grounds that it no longer had any bite . |
| 8 | The new company is called Tulloch Timber ( Nairn ) , but yesterday the operations director , Tony Mitchell , of Nairn , stressed that it no longer had any connections with the Tulloch Group , from which it had been purchased . |
| 9 | Verger it may have seemed once , down there in the sunlit nave … but up in the spaces … with no one to witness … it no longer needed that shape . |
| 10 | But then why did n't the plant evolve so that it no longer attracted that insect ? |
| 11 | In an official statement put out yesterday , Sangster said cryptically : ‘ It is a sad decision , but it no longer makes any sense keeping the place and having to stay in the local pub when we visit . ’ |
| 12 | The most important of these is her version of Mr Callaghan 's ‘ Economic Seminar ’ , though it no longer has that name . |
| 13 | The housing committee says it no longer has any use for the site and it will now be open to private development . |