Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for someone to support the person whilst they try to unravel their thoughts in such a way that it becomes clear that they can say anything , no matter how bizarre or odd it sounds , because that will be the way they sort out their feelings in order to cope with them . |
| 2 | or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah , and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and that 's what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight . |
| 3 | She 'd liked men — of course she had — but for some reason or another it had never deepened into anything else . |
| 4 | One way or another it had been quite a day , she decided , cooling down under the shower before she collapsed on to her bed . |
| 5 | This is now so widely accepted that it seems less like a theory , or even a theoretical framework , than a piece of common sense ; and in one form or another it encompasses the views of the majority of Anglo-American philosophers and neuroscientists about the basis of consciousness or , at the very least , of perception . |
| 6 | But somehow or another it got out of sequence . |
| 7 | When I am down in States l or 2 it seems to me that I am always there , with all the flags hanging limp and absolutely still , and not a breath of air moving . |
| 8 | They wo n't come up to you because they think you 're dirty , because you got pregnant and you 're only fourteen or fifteen , but if you 're seventeen or eighteen it does n't matter , you 're old . |
| 9 | Here I feel the middle single coil is a little on the thin side against the tapped humbuckers , but when the five-way is in positions two or four it makes for some interesting and very usable tonal combinations . |
| 10 | But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same |
| 11 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 12 | For a moment or two it seemed as if that was what would happen . |
| 13 | Cos I mean I 'm , I quite often use that as spendable income , because if I allow it to accumulate in a gross account , in a year or two it 's actually gone beyond the |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Ratagan , ‘ for the next day or two it seems hardly likely that I will be wetting my throat at all , so perhaps it is just as well I indulged in a draught or three last night . ’ |
| 15 | Within a day or two it appeared that a complete South African team would be fielded and Treviso might just see the start of rugby 's World War III . |
| 16 | Yet when Vechey 's corpse was found , somehow or other it had dried out except beneath the knees . ’ |
| 17 | People expect of a theory of origins that in some way or other it gives them some quite privileged and special position , and they feel undermined and threatened by a theory of origin which does n't say something really rather special about them . |
| 18 | Well at some time or other it sticks . |
| 19 | I mean to begin with then obviously the female livelihood they depend on that primal investment it 's , it 's a situation the way that that it 's divided up |
| 20 | He says that that it shows a revival of gothicism which coincided with the development of the new classicism , and that it has clear connections with the work of Nanni di Banco and Ghiberti . |
| 21 | Boswell does not tell us what he said , other than that it included ‘ a variety of degrading images ’ . |
| 22 | As regards ( b ) it should be noted that all it does is to permit small and medium-sized companies to prune the accounts to be delivered to the Registrar and thus made public . |
| 23 | The disadvantage of a bad debt warranty and indemnity is that all it does is provide a remedy for the purchaser . |
| 24 | One day the electorate chooses a government to exterminate the Jews : the next day decides on one to take it down the Marxist-Leninist road : the next that all it wants is dishwashers and CD players . |
| 25 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 26 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 27 | Insisting that all it needed was a little Lux , he put the painting on the floor and began scrubbing . |
| 28 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 29 | I would have thought myself that all it needed was going boomph in and turn it and get the other one in . |
| 30 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |