Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 2 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 3 | The stored or potential energy in a raised weight can be used , for instance , to drive the mechanism of a grandfather clock though in most clocks a spring is usually more convenient , if only because it stores the same amount of energy which ever way up it is . |
| 4 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 5 | The there are parish ministers who are willing to listen and long before it reaches the stage of lawyers and divorce . |
| 6 | She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home . |
| 7 | It 's well worth the trouble , though , firstly because it 's obviously ideal for bringing out the bass in small guitars , secondly because it looks just fabulous , and thirdly because it makes the inside of the guitar smell like an explosion in a spice market . |
| 8 | It 's not very common during pregnancy , and even if it occurs the effect on the baby can either be slight or very serious , when it 's a tragedy . |
| 9 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 10 | But just when it seemed the writing was about to be put back up on the wall , Kendall found an unlikely saviour . |
| 11 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 12 | The dismay was in part because of the anticipated economic consequences of this militancy , but also because it threatened the existing social order of late Victorian England . |
| 13 | The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer . |
| 14 | This point is worth emphasizing not only because of its importance in the developing argument to follow , but also because it marks the way in which my use of ‘ the limit of an authority 's rightful power ’ differs from some common uses ( though it conforms with others , including the legal usage ) . |
| 15 | Also in Scandinavia was an important study of the mass movement processes on the slopes of Kärkevagge ( Rapp , 1960 ) and this was important not only because it endeavoured to quantify all of the processes that affect a slope in a subarctic environment , but also because it established the relative significance of the different processes and concluded that the most effective agent of removal was running water removing material in solution . |
| 16 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 17 | I have ridden in the hon. Gentleman 's car , which is so large that it enters Wandsworth as soon as it enters the boundary of Lambeth . |
| 18 | The car blew up as soon as it hit the wall . ’ |
| 19 | As soon as it entered the fallow he began an excited scream of view halloa , halloa ! and flapped his arms . |
| 20 | Muscle relaxants during pregnancy , these get into the baby as well and it relax the baby 's muscles and they would relax these ligaments and muscles around the hip joint which means that the hips can be not as they should be , alright ? |
| 21 | The external skeleton is highly versatile ; it serves the tiny water flea as well as it does the giant Japanese spider crab that measures over three metres from claw to claw . |
| 22 | If the detent spring is weak it would probably jump out of second as well as it utilises the same spring . |