Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Department of Agriculture might function more effectively for agriculture if it did not take on , unnecessarily and confusingly , a role in food marketing . |
| 2 | What do you feel about banks , do you think they know enough about business when it comes down to it . |
| 3 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 4 | Loks like granules , but add a pint or so of water and it swells , filling up a vase with solid squishiness and looking like crystal . |
| 5 | ‘ And yet , despite the Medicines Act and its regulations , CSM did little better with practolol once it had been marketed than was done without the legislation in the case of thalidomide ’ , we commented in 1980 . |
| 6 | In turn , so it might seem , they are rightly in authority when it comes to teaching . |
| 7 | I know of no other investment that returns less on death than it does should you live . |
| 8 | In this case , exactly as one would expect , the adjective is acceptable in predicative position but only on condition that it bears the meaning it has as a non-separative . |
| 9 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | That is longer than the standard truncheon and would be useful to police officers who patrol alone at night because it affords additional protection against all kinds of assaults , excluding of course , assaults using firearms . |
| 11 | It seems if you 're a clown you can get away with murder when it comes to cars — forget about roadworthiness , do n't bother with tax discs , ignore MOTs . |
| 12 | I always try and go with him when he goes to medical conferences — now we hardly ever take work away from home if it means we ca n't both go . ’ |
| 13 | That is to say , credit should figure far more prominently in education than it has done in the past . |
| 14 | I 've had it since just before Christmas and it keeps going and coming . |
| 15 | Her question seemed to catch her more off guard than it did him , and she felt a warm blush rise to her cheeks . |
| 16 | This past mental act of meaning is a grammatical fiction , but it seems more like fact when it provides the material for an answer to the question , ‘ What does the word ‘ mean ’ stand for ? ’ |
| 17 | The gravitational force between two bodies would decrease more rapidly with distance than it does in three dimensions . |
| 18 | Company 's such as Campeau , which plunged too deeply into debt when it bought Bloomingdale 's , will no longer be able to count on the US taxpayer to bail them out . |
| 19 | The Customs seal on the container was still in tact when it arrived at basket-ware importers Ronald Kaufmann 's in Norwich . |
| 20 | The $24,000,000 production was to be an unmitigated disaster and was to bring Twentieth Century-Fox close to bankruptcy when it found out that the heyday of the film musical was past . |
| 21 | It follows that a household will spend more on consumption if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively low than if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively high . |
| 22 | Its trading account is substantially in credit and it has no overdue or significant trading debts . |
| 23 | The camouflage not only works well among trees , scrub or rocks , but also hides its wearer as efficiently by night as it does by day . |
| 24 | But this process may be well under way before it becomes apparent . |
| 25 | Mr Christopher 's speech had been planned well in advance but it had the effect of underscoring US support for the Russian president as he battled with hardliners in parliament . |
| 26 | Mechanically , it works almost as well on land as it does in water , so that providing a creature can find a way of breathing , there is little to prevent it walking straight out of the sea and up the beach . |
| 27 | Unlike many of the other Community programmes , DELTA concentrates exclusively on technology and it does so in the knowledge that it is technology rather than social/educational concerns that will bridge the yawning gap between training needs and training provision in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 28 | the trees were racing down the river , the river was running oh they were huge , then of course when it subsides you 've got a build up of trees , that 's left , you know left on the , where they 've blocked |
| 29 | Also outside the FTSE , Adscene , the publishing and printing group , was heavily in demand as it reported a sparkling full-year performance . |
| 30 | Second CBP100 appears to bind quite specifically with CREB since it interacts only very weakly with the highly homologous ATF1 . |