Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union representative is looking into the case to see if the company have a negligence claim to answer , but at the moment it rather looks as if it was entirely Len 's fault . |
| 2 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 3 | At low levels of excitation this structure , outlined in Fig. 1 , will obviously behave as if it were an inefficient transformer . |
| 4 | This house suddenly felt as if it were suffocating her . |
| 5 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 6 | You will find you have access to swims you once only dreamed about and it becomes possible for you to float fish in swims which can only be fished with leger tackle from the bank . |
| 7 | Secondly , incest was not a rare thing in those days , though as much frowned upon as it is today . |
| 8 | Mm , see one of the dangers of just reading the bible is that you have to be careful you do n't fall into the pitfall of just reading it when if you do then it 'll all look as if it 's pointing towards the only way out is heaven |
| 9 | In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect . |
| 10 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 11 | The weekly covers things he more or less knows about and it seems more often to be of more direct concern to him and his family than an event that happened elsewhere . |
| 12 | This is a penal measure and the courts must take care to see that this former expression is not treated as if it were the latter . ’ |
| 13 | I asked , trying not to sound as if it were a matter of life and death . |
| 14 | The fact is , however , that some of the behaviour of electromagnetic radiation is best explained as if it were a stream of photons ; and some of the properties are best explained as if it consisted of a series of waves . |
| 15 | The fact is , however , that some of the behaviour of electromagnetic radiation is best explained as if it were a stream of photons ; and some of the properties are best explained as if it consisted of a series of waves . |
| 16 | The epidemiology of H. contortus is best considered separately depending on whether it occurs in tropical and subtropical or in temperate areas . |
| 17 | It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours . |
| 18 | Part of the problem is the HYPO , a fine orchestra which just does not sound as if it has lived with the piece in the way that the Gewandhaus Orchestra have ever since they gave the world première under Nikisch on December 30th 1884 . |
| 19 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 20 | You said , ‘ let's pretend to be engaged to tease big brother ’ , and you made it somehow seem as if it was a sudden whim . |
| 21 | The buyer will find it difficult to argue that the clause was not agreed upon if it is contained in a document signed by him . |
| 22 | They are not caused by individual neurosis , but it is being asserted that religion is best understood as if it were a symptom of a neurosis of humanity as a whole . |
| 23 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 24 | until it just seems as if it 's an impossible task |
| 25 | Brisbane is targeted as the next location in 12–18 months but would not speculate on whether it would be another dual function site . |
| 26 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |
| 27 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 28 | Radio listeners and newspaper readers were generally far better informed , but investigation showed that a great deal of news was either misunderstood or not listened to because it was incomprehensible . |
| 29 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 30 | Because to make a microscope preparation means that the tissue has to be fixed and stained , what one sees always looks as if it is a very rigid structure , but in the living organism the dendritic pattern of neurons is as mobile as the branches of a growing tree in a gentle breeze , so changed branching patterns are perhaps not so hard to envisage . |