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

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1 It is a marvellous yarn , and it evokes quite brilliantly both the atmosphere of the House of Commons and the motives of men seeking political power .
2 It tumbled over her slim straight shoulders in deep shining waves that reached almost to her waist , and her beautiful , heart-shaped face shone like a child 's .
3 Most other scientists , however , were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment .
4 The Sola grill is different , it grills so evenly , there 's been nothing to beat it in 25 years .
5 Her palace-church , begun a few years later , was an imperial and dynastic protest and a declaration of her own family 's higher qualifications for the throne , as the proud sentences of the poem inscribed within it make abundantly clear .
6 And it , it pooing all over , the house stank
7 Some may not like this idea , because it veers away from established convention , but it 's quicker , plus it saves the hassle of breaking a string peg at an important moment and being left dangling , so to speak .
8 There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred .
9 Yeah it zoomed through did n't it ?
10 It zoomed in to introduce the IntelliServer terminal server for local area networks .
11 There 's very little chance of it catching unawares .
12 Uses for the foam or suggested ones , are for keeping bank vaults safe and for applying pesticides to crops without polluting the air , I do not see it catching on .
13 Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did .
14 Now then , where , where are you feeling it catching just now ?
15 It testifies both to a new realism in Moscow 's approach to the country 's profound economic crisis , and acknowledgement by the Western financial community that red-blooded free market therapy can not alone provide the answer .
16 It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories .
17 High-level ozone is a life saver because it screens out the UVB ; but low-level ozone is a serious pollutant , causing respiratory and other health problems for many people .
18 Had the allegation been less specific — had it referred only to " certain police officers in Oxfordshire " , for example — the Banbury officers would not have been able to prove that what was published related to them .
19 This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up .
20 It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December .
21 The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot .
22 It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge .
23 However , it failed financially and ceased publication .
24 Yeah , just rewire it up , just try it for er , you know , I mean it failed straight away , if it do n't fail within half an hour then your er you know what it is , save yourself getting a switch .
25 But it failed comprehensively to push through various plans for mergers between the assemblers .
26 This holds that although Desert Storm passed one narrow test of political success ( the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait ) it failed in almost every other way .
27 It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services .
28 It failed miserably and after rancorous and protracted argument with Arsenal , he was transferred to Portsmouth in the lower depths of the English Second Division .
29 The introduction of the community charge was a desperate attempt to save the skin of the Conservative party in Scotland , and it failed miserably because of the sense of social justice in the Scottish philosophy .
30 It failed miserably .
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