Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordering replenishment and display may be looked after by the publisher and this can lift a lot of the administrative burden of stock control from the shop , although they are normally offered only where sales justify it . |
| 2 | It is a key enabler for this , but only if people use it as a way of changing the way business is done rather than merchandising existing systems and organisations . |
| 3 | So if people want it to be there it should be there , no question . |
| 4 | Nightingale rejected Mill 's criticism that her Notes on Nursing restricted women 's opportunities in the medical world by saying that feminism urged ‘ women to do all men do including the medical and other professions , merely because men do it , and without regard to whether this is the best women can do ’ . |
| 5 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 6 | That Reagan managed to escape public disgrace was probably only because Americans found it very hard so soon after Nixon to see another president fall from grace , since the presidency is the last moral totem pole the nation possesses . |
| 7 | Britain had governed Hong Kong for at least the past 25 years only because China allowed it . |
| 8 | The engine-room had customarily only one rating , a leading stoker , on watch , and this only because custom dictated it , not because necessity demanded it . |
| 9 | It was cool and dark , the stone floor scattered with rugs , and it was not long before Jenna decided it was too cool and too dark . |
| 10 | Not long after Johnson saw it , a tenant farmer demolished it , wishing , perhaps , to use the stones for his own building , like the Greeks who lived near Delphi , or the old villagers of Avebury — but the landowner , presumably the same Mr Fraser , had him rebuild it . |
| 11 | erm debt was something debt is a major cause of homelessness and I think it will be increasingly so , especially as folk find it very hard to either pay their rents or mortgages . |
| 12 | It was because of this that ‘ rest is possible only when fatigue demands it . |
| 13 | In the image the tribe acts as a unit only when people need it , and at all other times it is only a possibility , a concept in their minds . |
| 14 | Vron sounded bad enough when i said it . |
| 15 | So when Glenys says it 's good , it was pretty good , and when she does n't say it was good , it was pretty bad … |
| 16 | Larder was unhappy about the manner of the defeat , insisting : ‘ I felt that Widnes lost the game rather than Leeds won it . |
| 17 | Then you let the words take over where words do it best ’ ( quoted in Lanes , 1981 , p.110 ) . |
| 18 | The initiative foundered , probably largely because Kennedy found it politically unacceptable to be seen to be making any deal with the Cubans after Washington 's humiliation at the Bay of pigs . |
| 19 | When asked if he thought a ‘ level playing field ’ would ever be achieved Heseltine said that he thought change would take place , but not just because politicians wish it . |
| 20 | The engine-room had customarily only one rating , a leading stoker , on watch , and this only because custom dictated it , not because necessity demanded it . |
| 21 | Times change and now it 's told Univel Inc it will pick up UnixWare but not before UnixWare proves it can garner some volume outside of Compaq . |
| 22 | Not as parties intend it ( we have already endured the required bipartisan bleatings about youth and moral crusades ) but with the deeper meaning of structural renovation . |
| 23 | The loch , like many others in the Highlands , is no longer as Nature fashioned it , the length having been increased from four to nine miles as the result of reservoir operations . |
| 24 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 25 | God keep you , Solper , ’ he muttered and went towards the door just as Fitzosbert threw it open . |
| 26 | This is a topic that some who visit the elderly find extremely boring , just as others find it fascinating . |
| 27 | Then I thought of another question — just as Mala asked it . |
| 28 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |
| 29 | One can still climb Lewesdon through its aisles of trees and see the wide scene with its distinctive landmarks just as Crowe saw it , though the crowding sails of the ships of the line and the merchantmen have gone . |
| 30 | Shottermill 's three main strikers , Bob Daynes , Nick Wells and Joe O'Shea , seemed to have lost their scoring touch just when 'Mill needed it most . |