Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though what I did notice was a motor bicycle parked where it should n't have been — outside Wheeler 's . |
| 2 | Everything look alright again , and then the weather worsened and the attempt looked like it would never happen . |
| 3 | Clearly the realities of space flight from 1957 on ( manned , from 1961 ) made fantasy outdated unless it could visually match or outdistance such scientific advances . |
| 4 | A septic tank is an open system and depends on being sited where it can eventually discharge into a natural watercourse or soakaway . |
| 5 | However , it is inappropriate that business from a non-UK office should be regulated if it would not have required authorisation on a stand-alone basis . |
| 6 | Pyramid , which currently offers some MIPS-based Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG boxes lower down its line , apparently has n't decided whether it will actually offer its new R4000 architecture as one of its own products yet . |
| 7 | The details of the model are adjusted until it can simultaneously yield values acceptably close to the observed values of : the equatorial radius ( usually at 1 bar ) ; the mean density ; the axial rotation rate ; J 2 ; J 4 ; and the radiation excess . |
| 8 | If you have to venture on to the roof , be sure to hire a roof ladder which hooks over the roof ridge ; and for other work above ground level , make sure your ladder is anchored so it ca n't move . |
| 9 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 10 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 11 | The dog had n't barked so it could n't have been that , because he did n't miss any strange sound . |
| 12 | Previously the government had argued that the slave trade was so profitable that the traders could pay for their own forts , but by the mid-eighteenth century this attitude had changed to an acceptance of the fact that the trade was so necessary for the sugar islands ( and the sugar islands so necessary for the British economy ) that the trade would have to be supported if it could not afford to meet these overhead costs . |
| 13 | Asked if it would not benefit his campaigning work to meet Mrs W , Mr Fenton replied that he had met people who had met her . |
| 14 | On being asked if it would not have been appropriate to let the McArdles continue their journey on a largely empty train which after all permitted APEX tickets the spokesman said : ‘ Oh no . |
| 15 | Slime algae should be removed as it may actually grow over the encrusting species which , of course , are growing directly on the substrate , to their obvious detriment . |
| 16 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 17 | A dog will not be deprived if it can not use a chair . |
| 18 | In this case a budding urethral neurosis was nipped before it could really blossom . |
| 19 | The ‘ sight ’ episode of Supersense ( the sequel of which , Lifesense , begins this month on BBC1 ) had a four-eyed fish whose eyes are divided so it can simultaneously watch above the water for predators and below the water for prey ; the woodcock which has developed 360 degree ‘ wraparound ’ vision ; bees which see colours in flowers man can not and a map of the sky from which to navigate . |
| 20 | For example , heparin can act as a competitive inhibitor but its usefulness for studies on intact cells is lessened because it may also inhibit the generation of InsP 3 . |
| 21 | The new company , not surprisingly , will receive no funding from IBM ; the old company failed because it could n't raise the $60m it reckoned it needed to bring the SS-1 to market . |