Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to eyes not looking through ancient spectacles , it assuredly appears as an affair of the intercourse of a living being with its physical and social environment . |
| 2 | The block surface is ignored as the cylinder is initially checked to establish that it successfully passes through the negative surface defining the interior boundary around the hole . |
| 3 | Her best hope of surviving it successfully lies in your maturity and willingness to act as a temporary crutch for her and as a quiet stabilising influence until she learns how to walk alone and unaided . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 5 | You may choose to circle them very lightly with a soft pencil which can easily be erased later or you may use a highlighter pen — it rather depends on how precious the book is ( and , indeed , whether it belongs to you ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It rather depends on the part , does n't it ? ’ said Dotty . |
| 7 | It rather depends on the gentleman 's personal financial circumstances , and I would n't want to rehearse those on the air . |
| 8 | It rather goes with my dark , dark hair and kissable ivory teeth , my slim waist , my panache and my linen suit with the ineradicable stain of Pinot Noir . |
| 9 | It rather sounds as if your Picasso Trigger has never had a ‘ trigger ’ . |
| 10 | From what you said about reconnaissance equipment it rather sounds to me as if the tornado D R one A is likely to be replaced by in this reconnaissance role . |
| 11 | The union representative is looking into the case to see if the company have a negligence claim to answer , but at the moment it rather looks as if it was entirely Len 's fault . |
| 12 | The telson is present in the embryos of certain insects ( Fig. 41 ) , but it rarely persists as a discrete region ; it is evident , however , in the Protura , while traces are found in other insects . |
| 13 | Although comparative advertising is fairly common , it rarely results in legal action . |
| 14 | And for your meteorological information , it rarely snows in Somerset in the summer . |
| 15 | Such ambivalence often figures within transgressive reinscription , and is one reason why it rarely approximates to a straightforwardly ‘ correct ’ political attitude . |
| 16 | But , of course , it rarely works like that . |
| 17 | A better version of reality is that although the quality of ‘ capture ’ has tremendous semantic significance for both uniform policeman and detective , it rarely leads to large numbers of detections for the monthly , quarterly , or annual reports . |
| 18 | It certainly makes it quite clear that rape is about violence , power and control , and not a sexual act , but in doing so , it arguably indulges in a voyeurism equally sadistic . |
| 19 | Later , I gaze from the stern of the landing craft at the coast of Normandy , as it slowly slips from view , leaving me with the memory of those of the Brigade lying in shallow graves in the orchards and ditches of this part of France . |
| 20 | It mostly depends on other people recognizing the change that has occurred . |
| 21 | ‘ A bit , but it mostly seems to be with rats and hedgehogs and seaweed . ’ |
| 22 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 23 | But the fact that an error can be explained , even an unavoidable error , does not mean that it thereby ceases to be an error . |
| 24 | Rather than entering into these services too late , we want to anticipate the shift and the implications it thereby brings to our business by offering services tailored to specific client needs ’ . |
| 25 | It effectively cuts off the land the open agricultural land from these two fields and therefore visually it makes the paddock more part of Skelton Village . |
| 26 | It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche . |
| 27 | In Out the proliferation of various permutations of the same material is a reaction against the coercive use of metaphor , but it eventually leads to psycho-discursive disintegration as the central consciousness loses control over his own faculties of thought and reason . |
| 28 | It all does in fact make sense . ’ |
| 29 | An hour later , the kitchen volunteers go back into action again to finish the Christmas meal for the evening , as it all has to be reheated and served . |
| 30 | Approximately £20M of the business margin is invested in this way but , whereas in the past such research was judged by its technical excellence and general relevance to the nuclear programmes , today it all has to be justified in terms of market requirements and the likely return on investment . |