Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 2 | I mean it is it is genuinely part of the definition but the definition they had originally has got stretched and stretched so now it it does n't there 's no obvious tie up with oxidation , meaning burning and taking up oxygen , and reduction is the of opposite , so if you get the oxygen out or you put hydrogen in or where it gains electrons . |
| 3 | Then he would make a pair of horns with his hands and step slowly backwards , and the closer he got to the bedside lamp the bigger the shadow grew , so that finally it outgrew the wall and spread across the ceiling and towered above him , a vast and terrible Demon . |
| 4 | Then the logic of the social system and the antagonism of classes continues to develop so that ultimately it destroys itself and the material conditions which brought it about . |
| 5 | Since then the picture has changed incredibly fast so that now it seems possible that the extinction that took place in Java may be repeated . |
| 6 | keeps a cushion of air under the vessel so that really it hovers on top of the water and the air propellers drive it like an aeroplane |
| 7 | It is easy to see why : the track is only six lanes wide so that the crowd is closer to the action than usual , and the organizers have the knack of building up the anticipation for the big event so that once it gets under way , emotion bubbles over . |
| 8 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 9 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 10 | He was noticing everything , the way the light played on a broken brick in the wall opposite and sometimes it looked hollow and sometimes it looked a bulge , which proved that you could n't say that what you saw , however carefully , scientifically , you analysed it , was a scientific fact . |
| 11 | stuff on it and they have to have a pin number , so you put your pin number in and then it tells you exactly how many copies your pin number has copied |
| 12 | they are , she got the forms er but it did n't go and you 'd got to fill them in and then it happened with , but then suddenly she came home one day and she said oh she said I 've got a job |
| 13 | Well I 've turned it down and then it blew out , there , right . |
| 14 | This is about forty foot down and then it drops again |
| 15 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 16 | One of you dies , the remaining one still owns all the property cos he or she always has done so and therefore it belongs to that person . |
| 17 | By then Tony Elliott was rumbling along and previously It had been providing that function . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 've got no food and we ca n't stop the humans and we 're trapped in the quarry and I 've tried to keep everyone together and now it 's all gone wrong ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 20 | Erm in the same way as th the glass in a greenhouse works , that it let's the radiant heat in but then it does n't let so much out , so the heat builds up . |
| 21 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 22 | The basic idea is that profit from long-term business is recognised as it accrues rather than when it emerges as a cash surplus released from a long-term fund , as the current statutory method dictates . |
| 23 | But sooner or later it turns into a crisis of resources — practical , personal and political . |
| 24 | Sooner or later it occurs to the owner that , for the price of two or three battery changes , it should be possible to make a transformer-rectifier unit capable of acting as a permanent substitute for the battery . |
| 25 | Sooner or later it had to be . " |
| 26 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 27 | What saves an ordinary cat from being over-mauled is the fact that sooner or later it struggles and scratches . |
| 28 | Sooner or later it seems everything becomes collectable ; old telephone boxes , ancient park benches , and now the hunt is on for lamp posts , from all over the world , as Richard Hudson-Evans reports . |
| 29 | The untouched paper was left to represent the dense central mass of twigs , and the more open lattice of branches above and below it silhouetted against a lighter background . |
| 30 | The precise location of the boundaries between the middle class and the classes above and below it has also been the subject of dispute . |