Example sentences of "[pron] it [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circular shafts were dug down to the seams and coal was then dug away from the sides until the pit was in danger of collapsing , which it eventually did after the pit had been abandoned . |
| 2 | For instance , a car manufacturer who wished to find out about UK attitudes towards diesel engines might research only those strata from which it already knows that it derives ( say ) 80% of its sales . |
| 3 | ( Opposite below ) The first of the Class 47s — or Brush Type 4s as they were known when D1500 appeared in 1962 — still hard at work rom Gateshead depot in 1987. here No 47401 , as it is now numbered and carrying the name North Eastern which it both received and lost during the 1980s , nears Greenfield on a Trans-Pennine service , the 17.03 Liverpool to Newcastle on 19 June 1987 . |
| 4 | Is it likely that the changes and related developments will lead the Ministry of Defence to release land in Scotland which it presently owns and leases for training purposes ? |
| 5 | Next , I shall discuss some difficulties which it either generates or leaves unsolved . |
| 6 | The general 's effective rejection of the peace charter , which has yet to be formally presented by the 31 Christian and 31 Muslim deputies gathered in Taif for the past two weeks , risks plunging Lebanon into a new cycle of the violence from which it temporarily escaped when the Arab League brokered a ceasefire on 23 September . |
| 7 | Growth of the larva is interrupted during moulting by periods of lethargus in which it neither feeds nor moves . |
| 8 | That methodology , some members argued , might enhance the Scottish budget given that Scotland was currently paying for a share of some centralised services which it neither used nor needed . |
| 9 | Following this move of the ducal seat the palazzo fell into disuse and disrepair , a state from which it only recovered when the Spanish governors took it over many years later . |
| 10 | It performs a special dance , walking in a circle which it then bisects while vigorously waggling its abdomen . |
| 11 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 12 | It is therefore ironic that the report which it unreservedly endorses and which appears in the same issue should perpetuate the thinking I seek here to expose as muddled and erroneous . |
| 13 | As this approach is a tough , personal , confrontational one it only works when both parties have something to gain or lose . |
| 14 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 15 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 16 | Auguste failed to see the hidden tensions and passions behind these simple manoeuvres ; to him it only signified that the banquet had acquired a reality . |
| 17 | No it it just feels as though You know I ca n't er ca n't shift it . |
| 18 | And i I you know , it it just looks as though erm they 're trying to force more and more onto the voluntary erm centres and the voluntary organizations , to provide resources and to provide help . |
| 19 | Witchcraft conceptions represent , as Monica Wilson has neatly expressed it , the ‘ standardized nightmares ’ of the community , the horrifying spectre of what it most fears and dreads , the sinister antithesis of all its hopes and expectations . |
| 20 | And what it actually means if you see them like that it actually means that there are two beats in a bar and they 're dotted beats |
| 21 | Peter Brown in his most recent and profoundly important book Body and Society demonstrates movingly how sexuality had so different a social meaning from what it now carries that the sexual abstinences , the noisy and sometimes virulent demands for chastity and virginity , within the early Church , far from being a symptom of self-hatred and dualism , were a radical political claim to the coming of the Kingdom : a claim which women , sometimes even more than men , could make . |
| 22 | Mr Ivan Norman , 30 , Business Operations Director for Nevada Bob 's , said : ‘ The Easter weekend , April and May periods , are the busiest of the year for us It now looks as though we will spend them temporarily out of business . ’ |