Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is omitted where it is historically expected to be present , and sometimes it is added where it is not expected . |
| 2 | Her glance flew to the Jaguar , parked where it was always parked these days , and a hint of a smile warmed her mouth . |
| 3 | Most typically , the apparent reality of the object is an effect of its being treated like a painting ; the text frames its object and then refers to it in terms that suggest that it is already represented on a canvas . |
| 4 | The company adds that it is already benefiting from increased efficiency and expects a large return on its financial investment in Weldon . |
| 5 | But do you know that it 's actually saved you from losing any of these employees . |
| 6 | Of course the inspectorate is highly respected in Wales , but the hon. Gentleman will know that it was never geared to carry out inspections with the frequency that we expect will result from the provisions of the Education ( Schools ) Bill and that we envisage in the parents charter . |
| 7 | Even if he comes by it innocently , nevertheless once he gets to know that it was originally given in confidence , he can be restrained from breaking that confidence . |
| 8 | In the half-hour I had spent with Lord Byron , I had forgotten that it was again raining steadily . |
| 9 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 10 | On returning to his office the following Monday , Mark was surprised to find that it was now occupied by visiting American auditors . |
| 11 | After an arduous approach march they reached Heraklion airfield , but found that it was well guarded . |
| 12 | Hammicks , which had promised to match prices elsewhere , found that it was rarely called on to do so . |
| 13 | Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds . |
| 14 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 15 | She reported that it was well written and the product of an expert . |
| 16 | This latter tradition remained geographically confined to the Far East and continued to flourish until it was gradually replaced , from the eighteenth century AD , by Western-style coinage . |
| 17 | ‘ So it looks like it 's all solved already . |
| 18 | You may be right , but your cynicism would be easier to accept if it was universally applied . |
| 19 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 20 | But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification . |
| 21 | Well I do n't know but it 's still going . |
| 22 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 23 | But experts say unless it is carefully controlled , the fish stocks and entire eco-system could be affected . |
| 24 | I 'll wait till it 's freely given . ’ |
| 25 | The unpleasantness is stressed because it is usually preceded by an enjoyable activity — eating a meal . |
| 26 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 27 | The first , St Joseph 's in Marton Road , had space for 200 children but objected since it is still recovering from the effects of housing another primary school following a major fire . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether it 's ever occurred to you but it is act |
| 29 | The gate is probably indicative of the way the new wall looked when it was eventually completed by Azzone Visconti in the thirteenth-century . |
| 30 | And she did n't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning . |