Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Not only does it not produce much wheat , as we well know , but , in fact , it is not creating as much energy output as energy input going in to the system .
32 The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States .
33 It soon emerged that performance was high on Ashton 's list of priorities as indicated by his having taken a series of lessons in Formula Fords at Brand 's Hatch .
34 It generally has more impact on debtors and moves along faster than the County Court .
35 She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect .
36 The Utica/St John 's posse denies , however , that it ever had any kind of gang affiliation or that the current troublemakers are connected with them .
37 It will be a lobbying organization and it deliberately eschews any party political association .
38 It further reported that membership was over 100 and when it reached 150 , subscriptions would be increased .
39 Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large .
40 It still had that ownership because under a hire purchase agreement property does not pass until the customer has paid all his instalments ( see paragraph 1–14 and Chapter 17 ) .
41 although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over .
42 Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it .
43 Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole .
44 Despite some later rebuilding it still possesses much work from the oldest stave church in Norway .
45 But somehow , it still has that touch of glamour .
46 So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell .
47 It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it .
48 BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals .
49 The second difference from the development charge was that though the levy would normally be paid to the seller , if ‘ when the land comes to be developed , it still has some development value on which levy has not been taken in previous sales , that residual value will be subject to levy at the time of development ’ .
50 While this figure is likely to have a fair range of variation according to the amount of crime in the catchment area of the newspaper and the general interest of the newspaper in reporting sex crime , it still gives some idea that it is only a small minority of local cases that get featured nationally .
51 More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods .
52 It still retained such jurisdiction , and received some increase and confirmation of it , in the nineteenth century .
53 The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise .
54 On average , only 15 mites were found per thousand ants , but the researchers say that the mite 's habit of moving from one host worker to another , possibly because it quickly exhausts each host , means that it may have a greater impact on the colony than its apparent rarity first suggests .
55 IT HARDLY SEEMED ANY TIME AT ALL BEFORE THE DAYS started to get warmer and spring was here again .
56 It hardly takes much decoding to translate this into racial — indeed , not far from racist — terms .
57 Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg .
58 It hardly contains any State secrets , ’ a royal expert said .
59 Well I , I might just block it off get another piece of wood and put it in there and just nail that fucking lot up and block off completely , otherwise Nick 's , if Nicholas is playing in the garden he 'll be out of there like a shot , so you 're gon na get one post there , say one in the middle and one at the end .
60 It always took some while for the Thing to wake up .
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