Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Life did n't just fail , it failed spectacularly . |
| 32 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 33 | Section 7(1) could be construed as applying to previous enactments , but it was argued that it applied also to subsequent enactments . |
| 34 | Prior to that date , it applied also to non-private customers . |
| 35 | This was especially true of the Fire Service , our immediate neighbours , and it applied equally to those in the adjacent Gateshead Borough Police and Northumberland Constabulary , who were always talked of as being a lesser breed of mortals . |
| 36 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 37 | The principle of the ‘ right to work ’ was extended to ‘ the right to work for all adults irrespective of age ’ ; but it applied only where the labour of older workers was needed in addition to the full employment of younger men with families ( Roberts 1954 ; Green 1963 ) . |
| 38 | The EC-IBM 1984 agreement was also dated in that it applied only to mainframes ( specifically the IBM 370 series and successors ( which were now of less than their previous dominant significance . |
| 39 | It applied only prospectively and did not have the effect of rendering unlawful conduct which had previously been lawful . |
| 40 | However it applied only to firms with 15 or more on the payroll . |
| 41 | It applied only to mergers between companies whose combined worldwide turnover exceeded 5,000 million ECU ( approximately US$6,500 million ) and where the aggregate EC turnover of each of at least two of the companies involved exceeded 250 million ECU . |
| 42 | Lord Denning decided that if the clause was limited by its perceived object it applied only to such part of the GUS group as operated within the UK . |
| 43 | It was the first time that there had been a debate on the viability and the desirability of having an element of compulsory further education , which in theory was to enrol all adolescents , though in practice it applied mainly to those from the working class . |
| 44 | It plays heavily on indirectness– intimacy and common understanding . |
| 45 | It sounds like a cat when it plays up ! |
| 46 | You can also zero the counter at your end point on the tape , then rewind to the start point : when it plays up to 000 the machine stops the tape and rewinds to the beginning . |
| 47 | One of the region 's top ice hockey teams has been saved , along with the ice rink it plays on . |
| 48 | For among the effects is one that is new , and that nothing that I 've said so far could have suggested this very exuberance , as well as the things it plays on , can make us smile or laugh . |
| 49 | It 's a very basic vertical scroller that would fail to enthral most people , simply because ( a ) it looks bad , ( b ) it sounds worse , and ( c ) it plays terribly . |
| 50 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90-10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 51 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90–10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 52 | The general manager of its NT business unit Paul Gifford was named to the post of vice president , systems architecture responsible for bringing NT , the hitherto poor relation , into the mainstream and figuring out how it plays together with Unix . |
| 53 | Their open-endedness is and can only be captured by a conception whose imprecision makes it uncongenial to real property lawyers , though it plays as important a part in legal doctrine as does the traditional tally of technical terms . |
| 54 | If you say , how do you know they 're better , then how do you know one football team is better than another , it plays better , gets more results , you know , and people respond to that . |
| 55 | The game looks as good as it plays too . |
| 56 | At the same time it plays down the dangers of pollution . |
| 57 | It plays back four frames on each revolution of the disc so you can not freeze the frame at any point you choose . |
| 58 | IBM is expected to make its long anticipated move into massively parallel computing this Tuesday when it launches parallel processing machines running from eight up to 64 PowerParallel RISC/6000 processors . |
| 59 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 60 | ( i ) it encourages both analysis and conciseness by forcing you to understand the similarities and differences between certain points . |