Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It surely just underlines that Merseyrail is prepared to accept delays of up to 59 minutes . |
| 32 | Finally , it almost invariably assumes that substantial improvements can be obtained with the same resources . |
| 33 | But why , I wonder , is it almost always assumed that when a marriage ( or relationship to use modern jargon ) ceases to function , the man is to blame and that where there are children , he is less fitted to oversee their upbringing ? |
| 34 | It almost certainly suggests that the remaining members of the team have under achieved . |
| 35 | It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be . |
| 36 | But when her hubby heard of her endeavours he hotfooted it upstairs only to discover that the sock where he had hidden £500 was gone . |
| 37 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 38 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 39 | It very rarely happens that you take several fish in one period and then nothing for the remainder of the time you spend on the water . |
| 40 | On the other hand , where maggots are regularly fed into the water in swims which bream frequent , it very often happens that they take over completely and all other baits , including bread , are ignored almost entirely . |
| 41 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 42 | It is not putting it too strongly to say that marriage is in crisis not only in the UK , but throughout the Western world . |
| 43 | An official report stated that ‘ it too frequently happens that one cow will cause a furious stampede of bulls of all ages , the pursued animal suffering severe injuries in the protracted chase . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |