Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its domination of the final text only means that it is Raskolnikov 's favourite way of rationalizing his malaise . |
| 2 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 3 | [ In 1931 Andrew Mellon was accused by Congressman Louis McFadden of cheating on his 1931 income tax return and in March 1934 the Roosevelt administration duly announced that it would seek criminal tax evasion charges for $1.3 million . |
| 4 | This critic apparently knows that it is a birthright of every English person to enter a cathedral in winter and hear the sound of voices , rendered seraphic by the spacious acoustic , singing to almost nobody . |
| 5 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 6 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 7 | Since Lenin , Marxists have accepted that this consciousness only arises if it is ‘ injected ’ into workers ' movements by an outside agency , a revolutionary party or intelligentsia . |
| 8 | At the same time , the critic will learn from this figure that , since the secrets are never disclosed , and since the absent essence only operates when it is absent , he should not force his text to produce a single interpretative meaning . |
| 9 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 10 | To see that this is the case , annotate each term below to say whether it belongs to the typical register of the birthday card or the register of the legal contract ( even if you have never seen a legal contract you can probably do this ) . |
| 11 | And as soon as the the first ones forefeet touch the deck of the boat , the boat just disappeared and it was the trolls that was taking him home . |
| 12 | This fear largely evaporated when it was proved that the fragile genetically-engineered microbes could not live outside their special environment inside the fermenter . |
| 13 | When knitting an adult size garment , the slow progress of the garter carriage usually means that it is only possible to knit one garment piece each day . |
| 14 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 15 | Every effort is being made to persuade the Government to alter the present anomalous regulations and , in company with other charities , the Institution still fears that it could lose its existing zero-rating status after European harmonisation in 1992 . |
| 16 | concerned this rule still stands and it has not expired . |
| 17 | A legitimate expectation may arise when a government agency , by its words or conduct , leads a citizen reasonably to expect that it will act in a particular way . |
| 18 | Indeed , such talk probably means that it is time to sell . |
| 19 | The President also stated that it was time " to offer our hand to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe " and time " to build on our new relationship with the Soviet Union ; to endorse and encourage a peaceful process of internal change towards democracy and economic opportunity " . |
| 20 | Being President also means that it is unsporting to fight too hard for one 's corner on any given issue , as a dignified referee-like stance is required . |
| 21 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 22 | The Minister 's Department now concedes that it can not check every farm in every year . |
| 23 | If appraisal now reveals that it has some validity in principle , the next stage is application . |
| 24 | The previous chapter provisionally accepted that it is beneficial for society as a whole that companies should attempt , within the general law , to make the highest possible profits . |
| 25 | London Underground correctly realised that it would be better for it to make its proposals as a separate Bill , which it has done , and the Bill has now passed through the House . |
| 26 | The opposition immediately announced that it would challenge the Speaker 's ruling in the High Court . |
| 27 | There was n't a great deal else to remember because it had all been pretty damn straightforward . |
| 28 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 29 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 30 | There is substantial evidence in the literature already cited that it has been the critical area of failure in Britain . |