Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | It 's getting steeper , and then , speed gets slower until it stops again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The car 's tremendous torque proves invaluable when it comes to overtaking ; it leaps the fourth-gear 30–50mph increment in just 6.5secs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In use always choose a wide chisel making sure that it sits truly flat on the face of the template . |
| 10 | Sometimes the legislature does this when it imposes the duty by couching the duty in very clear , concrete , and specific terms . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | but if you keep it still because there 's nothing happened there your eye disregards that and it takes in things that are moving . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , modern nomenclature loses more than it gains . |
| 15 | Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage . |
| 16 | Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains . |
| 17 | Greenways which runs this landfill spends more than it has to by law to make sure the site is safe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That average conceals more than it reveals : the OECD expects seven countries to have real GNP growth of 3% or more . |
| 20 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |
| 21 | The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them . |
| 22 | Thus , despite the difficulty of feeding a larger body , the survival value of size becomes greater as it gets colder . |
| 23 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 24 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 25 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 26 | Article 20 ( 4 ) ( b ) of the Vienna Convention puts the onus upon the objecting State to make explicit that it does not regard the treaty as being in force as between itself and the reserving State . |
| 27 | So how do you try a new song to make sure that it blends that it 's what you want to do that it 's different how do what where do you try if you do n't try on stage ? |
| 28 | The cloud became thicker and it began to snow . |
| 29 | As her photographs prove , the garden looks attractive and it contains most of the items a conventional garden is supposed to display . |
| 30 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |