Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To extend a statute to a regrettably omitted case looks like legislation , whereas refusing to extend it to a casus male inclusus is more like imposing a provisional fetter on legislation ( provisional , because Parliament can always come back and include the case expressly if it wants to ) . |
| 2 | Drain the steak , reserving the marinade and thread a skewer through one strip of steak at 2.5cm/1in intervals , pushing the strip together so it forms concertina-like folds . |
| 3 | In Mordauntt v. British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. ( 1910 K.B. ) the seller was told of the sub-sale by the buyer only after it had been made . |
| 4 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 5 | As the reader will appreciate , a country can fund a continuing current account deficit only if it has limitless reserves of gold and foreign exchange or unlimited foreign borrowing power . |
| 6 | But Mexico got this support only because it had sorted out its economy . |
| 7 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 8 | When it 's a mizza , of course especially if it creates 25 new jobs . |
| 9 | In any democracy , a government can commit its people to certain bloodshed only if it believes it has their support . |
| 10 | A picture of the American family began to be glimpsed as a super-mobile group that could get together to grill a hamburger only if it drove to the appointment . |
| 11 | But they put their foot down when it came to maths and they caught me grappling with the colour scheme of a kestrel . |
| 12 | Mr Delors claims that ‘ binding procedures ’ do not break the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ — the idea that decisions should be taken at EC level only when it makes sense to do so . |
| 13 | And likes your light on when it goes to bed . |
| 14 | There 's sort of brushes under the car so when it goes round it sweeps and washes the floor at the same time . |
| 15 | He followed the bomber down until it dived into the sea off Filfla , three survivors being seen in the water . |
| 16 | And the third tells you that it was Isaac Newton who wrote this equation down because it matched what happened every time he played billiards or threw apples around . |
| 17 | There was intense poverty in it , especially during some periods , and there were the tensions that were inevitable where the old system of dependence on master or squire had retained its force long after it had lost its relevance and many of its benefits . |
| 18 | Tighten the wheel down until it touches the pipe |
| 19 | Cytosolic PKC is inactive and can phosphorylate protein only after it has been translocated to the membrane . |
| 20 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 21 | But I will say this , it 's a great deal better than it looks from the outside . ’ |
| 22 | The second set of compulsory powers were not to become operative until the ‘ second appointed day ’ and were to be brought into effect only if it appeared ‘ that it is necessary in the public interest to enable the commission to obtain authority for the compulsory acquisition of land by a simplified procedure ’ . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the organisation will always retain the right to terminate the engagement prematurely if it considers this may be necessary . |
| 24 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 25 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 26 | Push the pipe into the fitting squarely until it goes no further . |
| 27 | The numbing effect of complete spatial disorientation blurred his mind momentarily before it struggled to compensate . |
| 28 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 29 | The Magill reporter concluded that the County Council officials ‘ must have known of the existence of the tailings pond soon after it began ’ . |
| 30 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |