Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it just pours out of your ears . |
| 2 | To add 153 public houses to AW 's tied estate , a sector in which AW is currently under-represented in the North West , where it currently has only 187 public houses . |
| 3 | I , personally , do not think it a very good idea to have carpet in the dining room where it only picks up smells and gets dirtier more quickly than in most places since people do , without fail , drop things . |
| 4 | Nor is Zurich neglecting its home base , where it still earns nearly a quarter of its premiums and does nearly half of its life insurance business . |
| 5 | But where it really takes off is in the central performances by De Niro and Williams . |
| 6 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 7 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 8 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 9 | Manpower calculates that the average period for which a person works for it ( presumably the average of all spells of employment ) is four months , although it also points out that " many " temporary " workers have been continuously employed by Manpower for several years and three and five year service awards for temporaries are a frequent occurrence " ( Manpower , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | All this went down well enough with the members of the Institute , although it conveniently ignored both the fact that large numbers of those he excoriated had been encouraged into the professions by business parents and that for an entire decade ‘ the Establishment ’ had been elbowed aside by the Thatcher appointments policy . |
| 11 | Although it hardly seemed fair racing a man at least 15 years our senior , who could resist going just a little faster every time we saw his face contorted with exertion , glaring up at us like Charles Laughton in Mutiny On The Bounty ? |
| 12 | Indoors , or in drier weather , the relative humidity decreases , although it seldom falls much below 30 per cent even in hot dry climates . |
| 13 | The main impact of blocking on the speed of skip-sequential processing is usually counter-productive , although it often achieves more in space-saving and rapid data transfer than is lost in increased block activity . |
| 14 | It does n't matter so much if the document is to be a one-off , although it obviously helps fairly significantly if the material can actually be read . |
| 15 | The laid-back attitude of some of the French controllers takes a little getting used to , although it sometimes helps considerably . |
| 16 | Again , it 's a questin of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 17 | Again , it 's a question of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 18 | Where the two met , on tracks like ‘ Kennedy ’ and ‘ Brassneck ’ , it was bliss , but overall , it was a difficult record to feel comfortable with , although it still stood up to repeated plays . |
| 19 | David wanted to write a play — that 's what he fancied doing — although it never came about . |
| 20 | It might be added as an aside that it probably takes much more cultural energy to teach bellicosity and to produce warriors ( with spears as arms ) , than to teach co-operation and to produce shamans ( with ‘ thoughts ’ as arms ) . |
| 21 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 22 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 23 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 24 | Under these tests , a country reserves the right to refuse an operating licence to a foreign firm if it deems that it already has enough similar companies on its territory . |
| 25 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 26 | If you find next time you need that remedy that it again does not work , put another mark on the bottle and give it one more chance before discarding the whole bottle . |
| 27 | It was a smell so keen that it momentarily brought back the holiday she and Martin had spent in Amalfi , the trudge hand-in-hand up the winding road to the mountain-top , the pile of lemons and oranges by the roadside , putting their noses to those golden , pitted skins , the laughter and the happiness . |
| 28 | The master 's conduct of his small class was so casual that it soon drifted away , but his influence on this pupil was decisive . |
| 29 | The brown eye rolled again , so violently that it nearly popped out of its socket : ‘ Do they look like sheep 's footprints ? ’ |
| 30 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |