Example sentences of "soon [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London . |
| 2 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 3 | As in the case of the plating company , operators had grown familiar with a new set of moulding machinery soon after it had been installed . |
| 4 | From The Moth , journal of the DH Moth Club , this member 's account of an accident which befell his pristine Tiger Moth last summer soon after it had undergone a complete rebuild at Maypole Farm in Kent and had accumulated only a handful of flying hours . |
| 5 | Wilcock had written about Haynes and his Edinburgh bookshop in the Village Voice soon after it had opened , and had popped up in the one-off Longhair Times too . |
| 6 | And then soon after it went off and it 's never come on since . |
| 7 | The Magill reporter concluded that the County Council officials ‘ must have known of the existence of the tailings pond soon after it began ’ . |
| 8 | The outbreak of the struggle for Greek independence in 1821 dealt them a death-blow : soon after it began they ceased to exist . |
| 9 | The devaluation of the dollar in 1971 and the oil crisis which came soon after it ushered in high unemployment and economic stagnation [ Beckerman , 1979 ; Blackaby , 1979 ] . |
| 10 | Five Ethiopians hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines plane soon after it left Addis Ababa airport on Aug. 28 . |
| 11 | The Moon , in contrast , melted almost completely soon after it formed but cooled rather quickly . |
| 12 | However , the Oakes Report 's recommendations concerning the financial management of advanced further education were rejected by the Conservative government soon after it assumed office in May 1979 . |
| 13 | These three vices are universally regarded as so detrimental to a horse , and so incurable , that if one is detected in a horse soon after it has been sold at a reputable horse auction , it is grounds for its sale to be cancelled . |
| 14 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
| 15 | Soon after it rose the traffic police were in position on the roads outside Sandwich . |
| 16 | As soon as it lurched backwards , he stood up , ran the length of the bus as fast as he could and jumped over the wall . |
| 17 | But he rejected it almost as soon as it crossed his mind . |
| 18 | It appears the US policy was to assist the coup if it appeared likely to succeed ; but to back away as soon as it seemed doomed to fail . |
| 19 | All around it the bloodstained undergrowth lay broken and flattened by its struggles , and as soon as it saw him , the animal lowered its needle-sharp horns that had grown in its prime to a length of nearly three feet . |
| 20 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 21 | He considered the Shah an autocrat , not a dictator ; a dictator would have crushed the clerical unrest as soon as it began to appear , and the Shah had not . |
| 22 | And they resented the cliche of representing the success of the band by a series of brief musical sequences alternating with shots of trains , because their clapping accompaniment was interrupted as soon as it began . |
| 23 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 24 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 25 | All six in-patient beds will be available in Darlington 's new leukaemia unit as soon as it opens , hospital officials confirmed this week . |
| 26 | At the start of the cross wind take-off apply full rudder in anticipation of the swing into wind , and then reduce it as soon as it becomes effective . |
| 27 | When you have given it , do all you can to collect it as soon as it becomes due . |
| 28 | As soon as a weakness or shortcoming in the system of regulating safety is positively identified the investigators need to inform the regulators where urgent action is necessary ; indeed , it is important that unhampered liaison channels allow the flow of all relevant factual information about an accident as soon as it becomes available . |
| 29 | As soon as it becomes clear that the new attacks would not achieve their objectives within a reasonable period , then we must abandon them and ‘ seek a decision elsewhere ’ said Falkenhayn half-heartedly , adding : |
| 30 | Now I say , that that is an intellectual exercise , as soon as it becomes an emotional exercise |