Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the service for King Charles the Martyr disappeared from the Book of Common Prayer ; at the same time his name was deleted from its calendar , where it had previously appeared on 30 January . |
| 2 | Official results published on March 22 after considerable delays showed that the ruling right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) remained the largest single party , with 44.3 per cent of the vote , but had won only 39 seats , losing its absolute majority in the assembly ( where it had previously held 32 of the 60 seats ) . |
| 3 | He raised his hand and placed it on her arm where it had briefly touched before . |
| 4 | And , where it had successfully sold Scottish products , had not re-invested the profits there . |
| 5 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 6 | A metaphysics stressing the invariance of divine ideas created dissonance where it had once created harmony . |
| 7 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 8 | Where it 's already got A C G just after , is that the C O C T one , Jayne or just a careers officer one ? |
| 9 | A package of new loans made public last week reveals that the nation will move away from its traditional hunting ground of French-speaking Africa , where it has always had a science presence , and towards English-speaking and Latin American nations and the Far East . |
| 10 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 11 | Although it made little progress its symbolic importance ( the first such meeting to be held ) was considerable . |
| 12 | Although it became easier to speak freely at home , only Herzen 's periodicals escaped the censor entirely . |
| 13 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 14 | Parma ham is available ready sliced in small packets , but this is an expensive way to but it , although it does always ensure good , even pieces . |
| 15 | The manual includes some incredibly helpful diagrams , although it does occasionally lapse into the incomprehensible jargon and figures which are common to most printer documentation . |
| 16 | MI6 is supposed to operate only outside Britain although it does occasionally get involved in projects within Britain such as the Crabb affair of 1956 ( see Chapter 3 ) , which was bungled from start to finish . |
| 17 | To expect a sudden conversion to spiritual belief is to expect too much ( although it does sometimes happen ) and fortunately it is completely unnecessary . |
| 18 | Although it does now say on paper what party they are , it never used |
| 19 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 20 | A large proportion of the local population was actively employed in the wool trade , although it had certainly decreased . |
| 21 | Although it had almost stopped raining , there was heavy traffic on the road and he soon turned back . |
| 22 | The news of the cost overrun caused Eurotunnel 's share price to fall 100p at one stage , although it recovered slightly to close 45p down at 650p . |
| 23 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 24 | Now it was n't really a back pass although it did actually come off of Greyson . |
| 25 | Although it has yet to join the DIA , IBM said it is evaluating AlphaWindows technology and is in ‘ active discussions ’ with a UK company — thought to be Microvitec — about a possible OEM deal to be announced by the end of the year . |
| 26 | It was reported in yesterday 's press , however , that North Korea has now agreed to the principle of the nuclear-free Korean peninsula , although it has yet to confirm that it will open up its nuclear installations at Yongbyon and any underground sites to inspection . |
| 27 | Although it has yet to displace the older established metal in western sentiment , court jewellers have for some time been using platinum as a more appropriate setting for diamonds than gold . |
| 28 | Although it has recently become fashionable to subject judges to ( usually ill-informed ) public criticism , even in Parliament , and although it is no longer unknown for demands for the removal of judges to be voiced in the House of Commons ( as when Sir John Donaldson incurred opprobrium as President of the National Industrial Relations Court for applying the law which Parliament itself had passed ) Parliament has still , in modern times , to remove a judge in this manner . |
| 29 | Although it has now become a way of life , I still find it disturbing . |
| 30 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |