Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why Roger was styled ‘ de Meuland ’ ( or ‘ Meuleng ’ , ‘ Meulent ’ , ‘ Molend ’ , etc. ) is unclear , although it probably indicates some connection with Meulon in Normandy . |
| 2 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 3 | During the first decade it seems , on average , to have run below £200,000 , although it sometimes exceeded that figure . |
| 4 | Although it once guaranteed good quality , now no one company holds an exclusive licence over the use of the name and the quality of the knives really does vary from brand to brand . |
| 5 | In the past it has been held that Article 86 may be infringed where a company holding a dominant position within the EC strengthens that position , by acquiring control of another company or business in the same market , to such an extent that it practically eliminates effective competition in that market . |
| 6 | As for the release of information , the stock exchange points out that it already requires price-sensitive information to be published through its regulated news service . |
| 7 | However , Krashen ( 1981 ) maintains that LOR ‘ works ’ to the extent that it also indicates greater interaction with the community . |
| 8 | It is possible that this is a result of the different judgment tasks that were used , certainly subjects reported finding the normality judgment a more difficult task to understand than either of the tasks from Study 2 , it is possible that it also required more attention to the films generally . |
| 9 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 10 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 11 | The resolution will be put to the League 's annual meeting on Friday , and Rovers hope the fact that it now has official support , will be sufficient to have it passed despite anticipated opposition . |
| 12 | As the Royals have learned to their cost the law is so lax that it actually encourages widespread snooping . |
| 13 | The WARM report criticizes the new German recycling system — which is rapidly being seen as a benchmark for materials recovery schemes throughout Europe — on the grounds that it unnecessarily duplicates existing waste collection networks . |
| 14 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 15 | The Utica/St John 's posse denies , however , that it ever had any kind of gang affiliation or that the current troublemakers are connected with them . |
| 16 | Nelson Mandela 's wife , Winnie angered the government by saying that it merely meant contemporary end to armed action and that the A N C reserved the right to reactivate its armed guerrillas at any time . |
| 17 | Part of the reason the Open Software Foundation missed the boat with its Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology , according to observers , is that it wrongly targeted independent software vendors as the home for its solution . |
| 18 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 19 | The Girls smoked despite the fact that it usually meant instant dismissal if they were found out . |
| 20 | It does not show that it always favours one interest — in fact the contrary seems to be true . |
| 21 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |
| 22 | It said nothing about educational or cultural co-operation , it did not do anything to bring EMU nearer ( that was left to the Delors Plan ) and it effectively left foreign policy co-operation in government hands . |
| 23 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 24 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 25 | In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences . |
| 26 | Can I , can I connect this with the notes , because it does raise the point about er , the judges , whether they should have retired er earlier , and it also involves another matter , I think . |
| 27 | He 's slightly happier about ‘ Fontana ’ , the second album and the one that yielded a hit in the shape of Shine On , but personnel problems were beginning to mar the band 's outlook and it soon became common knowledge that there was wet rot in The House Of Love . |
| 28 | A verb always makes a link and it always represents some kind of movement . |
| 29 | So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell . |
| 30 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |