Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 2 | Enforcing such a duty against a person who refuses to pay damages is morally justified because it implements the moral rights of the defamed . |
| 3 | Of all the skills in windsurfing water starting is the most highly prized as it opens the door to a whole range of smaller high performance boards . |
| 4 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 5 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 6 | Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered . |
| 7 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 8 | The model is so named because it describes a mechanism designed to compel managers to act in the shareholders ' interests which depends on vesting owner-like rights in the shareholders , as mentioned , to appoint , monitor , and replace the most senior tier of management and to make certain other fundamental decisions . |
| 9 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 10 | Nor , when a more viable alternative does appear , are they necessarily much bothered if it reopens issues peripheral to the main line of advance which seemed to be already settled . |
| 11 | The original American ‘ Airknocker ’ — so called because it sounds exactly like an old vintage motorcycle — was powered by Aeronca 's own E-113C 40 hp engine , but the British C-100 version used a licence-built version of the famous horizontally-opposed twin , built by J.A.Prestwick Ltd. and designated the JAP-J99 . |
| 12 | So called because it dips automatically should a car approach from behind with all lights blazing . |
| 13 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 14 | Robert is team leader in the black back cell at the Coventry factory , so called because it deals with tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination . |
| 15 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 16 | Positive bias , so called because it has the effect of increasing the accessible success area of the catastrophe surface , results from a cultural environment orientated towards systems and standards , analysis and risk avoidance in R&D programmes . |
| 17 | In contrast , the value of the option contract can not be negative since it is only exercised if it has a positive value . |
| 18 | But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild . |
| 19 | The administration has long known that it faces a bloody fight with conservative insurers and physicians and their hangers-on . |
| 20 | The world is a patch-work of different colours : the animal is only camouflaged if it settles in the right place . |
| 21 | When the adsorbent becomes saturated with odour molecules its adsorptive capacity is greatly reduced and it becomes necessary to regenerate the adsorbent , usually by treatment with superheated steam . |
| 22 | This will be much appreciated because it saves agency staff time and effort in trying to find you work unnecessarily . |
| 23 | And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out . |
| 24 | The Spanish catalogue ( Museo del Prado , Pta 2500 ) is greatly superior to the Italian one ( Electa Napoli ) ; it is better edited and better printed and it does not illustrate Sgarbi 's croute . |
| 25 | Currently , the NHS is much criticised because it does not have a comprehensive inventory of its fixed assets . |
| 26 | It would , of course , be fiercely resisted because it gives back power to the people . |
| 27 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 28 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 29 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 30 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |