Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is so much evidence Of this that it hardly needs restatement here , nor does its corollary that the present tropical belt is atypically narrow . |
| 2 | The opinion makes clear that it also applies to ‘ defined-contribution ’ schemes , in which an employee makes payments into the scheme and gets a pension reflecting the returns on his or her cash . |
| 3 | Making it clear that it really does recognise that the only way to revitalise its languishing business units is to hire outsiders for some of the key positions , IBM Corp late Friday announced that as well as making its AdStar Inc storage unit a wholly-owned subsidiary , it had hired industry veteran Ed Zschau , System Industries Inc founder and one-term Republican representative , to be its chairman and chief executive — and an IBM vice-president , relegating the unit 's former general manager Ray AbuZayyad to the post of president and chief operating officer . |
| 4 | Meantime , the agreement under which Encore Computer Corp may switch to the Alpha from the Motorola Inc 88000 that it presently uses is apparently not a done deal yet . |
| 5 | This usage is now so prevalent that it hardly conveys anything more than the best that could be imagined . |
| 6 | Ludo 's brief romance with an English girl was so run-of-the-mill that it hardly warranted mention at dinner parties , let alone gossip . |
| 7 | For several seconds , as their gazes met and held , she was disturbingly aware of the strong , sun-bronzed column of his throat , the startlingly blue gaze which studied her with an intensity so vibrantly sexual that it almost took her breath away before he turned his attention to the American couple . |
| 8 | But the men themselves , who call it ‘ the muppet shop ’ , remain unconvinced that it really has anything to offer . |
| 9 | Indeed , kinship could well be said to involve greater obligations to the old than it once did , because survivors now live longer and have fewer descendants who can share their care . |
| 10 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 11 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm interested if it actually exists , ’ he said . |
| 13 | It was strained through sieves into stone water jars , and if the truth were told , it was probably not very alcoholic and it certainly had a short life . |
| 14 | Everyone will be embarrassed and it rarely helps . |
| 15 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 16 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 17 | Under the legislation , which has Government backing , it will become an offence to carry a knife in public unless it specifically relates to work , religion or national costume . |
| 18 | ‘ Participation ’ is another but it also has other sources . |
| 19 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 20 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 21 | [ History ] is not rigorous because it always proceeds by faults and corrections , because it is not in any way a universal schema but a unique adventure that unfolds on the basis of prehistoric circumstances which constitute in themselves , and in relation to all the objectives and all the practices , a heavy and badly understood legacy of fundamental deviations . |
| 22 | Bridge-building is empty because it never happens , God-killing and god-making suicide is baffled because there is only a corpse to point at , there is nobody to attach a fulfilled ‘ free intention ’ to . |
| 23 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 24 | This all-embracing assumption is most improbable but it is justifiable since it never lets us down . |
| 25 | Strict feudalism was a highly artificial way of making land produce knights , and it is doubtful whether it ever existed outside the imaginations of historians . |
| 26 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 27 | However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) . |
| 28 | Not as funny as it actually happening and you getting covered in vomit but I mean it 's still vaguely amusing . |
| 29 | It 's a erm it was let's see what we can do to these nasty Labour controlled authorities and see how we can break down their erm their control of education and immediately they introduce it then suddenly the things start happening and they have second thoughts about it , and I 'm sure as night follows day that they 're going to have second thoughts about this when it actually occurs . |
| 30 | Come to think of it , the Krooms may have come from outer space , though outer space was not then as popular as it later became for launching expeditions against Earthmen . |