Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the Alliance advance occurred in its traditional heartlands of the north , where it successfully exploited economic and political insecurities of the local bourgeoisie . |
| 2 | At least in Europe and America , it mostly strikes homosexual and bisexual men , and drug-users . |
| 3 | If it was expanding fairly slowly , the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting . |
| 4 | ‘ It only leaves running and , if I were you , I 'd start now . ’ |
| 5 | But to me , standing there in the autumn sunlight , it suddenly seemed natural and comforting . |
| 6 | But as I say , I hate pedals , because the sound of a guitar through an amp is just a beautiful sound , and if you put it through too many other things it just gets weakened and made mock . |
| 7 | It already makes black and white displays in the US , but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing , and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan , where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties . |
| 8 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 9 | Although the idea of regular bathing was a new one to the Britons , it soon became fashionable and was another sign of being properly civilised . |
| 10 | But she put it to her eyes and brought it away streaked black and green . |
| 11 | A very sticky variety clings to each new copy for an average time of more than an hour before it finally breaks free and the process can begin again . |
| 12 | The caveman 's body begins to sweat and it thus becomes wet and slippery . |
| 13 | But as the liquid cools it rapidly becomes viscous and solidifies before it can crystallise . |
| 14 | A smear of smoke was all that was left , and it rapidly grew ragged and thin . |
| 15 | But what if it still feels dry and taut after 15 minutes ? |
| 16 | Even in incessant rain it still seemed lovely and , at least within its walls , remarkably unspoilt , though behind the medieval faades many houses have been relentlessly modernised . |
| 17 | It still commands extensive and airy views over the valleys to the east and west , and in places its broad grass verges betray something of its original width before the road was metalled . |
| 18 | Its danger to people handling it is relatively low , but it still needs careful and secure storage . |
| 19 | Being medieval , she thought it was unsuitable for the church to be visibly glittering , but , if the pews and the brass were n't polished , it quickly looked sad and Anna did not like it to look sad . |
| 20 | It also meant centralized and rationalized administration ; hence efforts were made to extend to Hungary , so jealous of its autonomy , the administrative system of the hereditary provinces . |
| 21 | It also froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets ; suspended credits , loans and grants ; closed Iraqi Airlines ' offices in the USA and committed its military forces to the interdiction of Iraqi oil shipments in support of UN sanctions . |
| 22 | While entry into the Kingdom has an essential personal and individual element , it also has profound and extensive community ramifications . |
| 23 | It also throws new and interesting light on the real needs for establishing the Livermore Laboratory for Dr Edward Teller . |
| 24 | Whereas country life had before been relatively quiescent , it now became unsettled and the foci of dissatisfaction altered ; protests against taxes were regularly staged from about 1540 , and after 1550 gave way to larger-scale insurrections such as those at Romans in 1580 , in the south west during the 1590s , and , much later , the Camisard rebellion in the Cévennes which began in 1688 . |
| 25 | It now became interesting and profitable to work with others , both in the classroom and in more leisurely periods of revision . |
| 26 | Dwarfed by Vienna and time , it now seemed crude and static . |
| 27 | It now stands alone and has a baroque façade is plain also , while the east end is apsidal Byzantine dome and drum with beautiful mosaic decoration on a gold background . |
| 28 | The first few weeks were okay , but then it really got boring and I just moped about . |
| 29 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 30 | He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’ |