Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 2 | From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago . |
| 3 | Richard ignored this because it did n't seem to him quite to the point . |
| 4 | Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’ |
| 5 | It 's getting steeper , and then , speed gets slower until it stops again . |
| 6 | Spenser approves this because it does not drain English resources through having to keep a large standing army in Ireland . |
| 7 | If , of course , her grief becomes prolonged and it seems that she is making no headway towards adjustment , it will be advisable for her to see her doctor , but this rarely happens . |
| 8 | The car 's tremendous torque proves invaluable when it comes to overtaking ; it leaps the fourth-gear 30–50mph increment in just 6.5secs . |
| 9 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |
| 10 | We created a revolutionary 24 valve , 3 litre V6 engine with a variable length inlet manifold , enabling the engine to breathe deeper as it goes faster . |
| 11 | But Gide 's account especially does suggest how the vision of desire as loss is strangely inseparable from both the blindness of desire and its capacity to know more than it wants . |
| 12 | In use always choose a wide chisel making sure that it sits truly flat on the face of the template . |
| 13 | Sometimes the legislature does this when it imposes the duty by couching the duty in very clear , concrete , and specific terms . |
| 14 | If that er clothing becomes heated and it gets to the right temperature it will burst into the flames , likewise if it 's not balanced properly and you go out the door the living room or the lounge into the kitchen or some other part of your home the draft by closing the door can knock the airer over , unbalance it and of course er set fire to the clothing . |
| 15 | But the idea of wilderness becomes meaningless unless it implies a state of affairs in which , over some quite large tracts of land , deliberate human control has been removed . |
| 16 | But the figure leapt through the air onto the next shelf and Endill watched helpless as it disappeared into the darkness . |
| 17 | but if you keep it still because there 's nothing happened there your eye disregards that and it takes in things that are moving . |
| 18 | The fee , called Sisa , has little value in strict legal sense but not all ambulantes have one and it helps if the cops decide to pull a raid . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , modern nomenclature loses more than it gains . |
| 20 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 21 | Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage . |
| 22 | Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains . |
| 23 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 24 | Greenways which runs this landfill spends more than it has to by law to make sure the site is safe . |
| 25 | But I think that contemporary interpretations of Dicey as a positivist who was concerned to freeze late nineteenth century political principles obscures more than it illuminates . |
| 26 | I am judging by the quality of the management , the leadership and the fact that Strathtay employees — the Hon. Gentleman knows this because it came out in Committee — are having funds deducted from their pay every week to make their contributions to buying the shares . |
| 27 | That average conceals more than it reveals : the OECD expects seven countries to have real GNP growth of 3% or more . |
| 28 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |
| 29 | The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them . |
| 30 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |