Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he evidently supposes that a 43-year-old woman , hitherto miserably infertile , could make cod claims on such an issue tells you rather less about Walter than it does about Graham Swannell 's flimsy and opportunistic approach to characterisation . |
| 2 | Collimore Stone won it back brilliantly off Lewis but it came to nothing . |
| 3 | It was a photograph of a portrait by Van Dyck — the portrait of a boy about fifteen — a young Prince Ruprecht von der Pfaltz of Bavaria and he was so like Lionel that it brought one 's heart into one 's mouth . |
| 4 | MI6 is supposed to operate only outside Britain although it does occasionally get involved in projects within Britain such as the Crabb affair of 1956 ( see Chapter 3 ) , which was bungled from start to finish . |
| 5 | But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt . |
| 6 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |
| 7 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 8 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 9 | The co-ordinator of the scheme , Miranda McKearney , said : ‘ We have found that libraries are keen to use Well Worth Reading because it offers designed and printed promotional material conceived by fellow librarians . |
| 10 | There 's a lesson here for Darlington as it embarks on its own pedestrianisation scheme . |
| 11 | Egyptian public opinion ran strongly against Iraq after it invaded Kuwait . |
| 12 | but she said er , they did n't do too well with Anna because it did n't drain |
| 13 | Ormanroyd Phillips denying the room and Lewis with the cross Speedy getting up well with Pearce and it breaks to Black . |
| 14 | the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship . |
| 15 | Culturally and linguistically , Britain offers a nexus of increasingly plural possibilities , a promising ground for a postmodernism which may in the future develop more strongly in Britain than it has hitherto . |
| 16 | but it stretches from here to Ipswich and it stretches from here to the Norfolk border . |
| 17 | Eyeing the expected Microsoft Corp NT assault on the 32-bit systems software market , SunSoft is also fortifying its channel strategy hoping to press the advantage first for its Interactive product , then for Solaris-on-Intel when it becomes available . |
| 18 | You set a blurb or something in proper Caledonia and then in Neue-Caledonia and it hits you that the Neue-Caledonia has gone all sort of thin and sharp and it 's the perfection of that shape there and the old one sort of boings about a bit and looks happy on the page . |
| 19 | Britain ranks lowest in Europe when it comes to childcare provision . |
| 20 | The sun came late in December if it came at all . |
| 21 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home . |