Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather ingenuously it appears that , with the liberation of Paris , the French in Vietnam asked for Japanese permission to celebrate the event ; and it must have been obvious to the Japanese , too , that the uneasy but de facto alignment between them and the French was liable to break down sooner or later . |
| 2 | Most obviously it means that the ‘ birds ’ sang at a previous moment in time but it could also mean the time of year , the time of the poet 's life , and most strikingly , it could be another word connected with death . |
| 3 | The trick is if you go away it does n't look like you have , and erm the same thing happens in a design studio , or if you 're the art director of a publication or of a book publisher , that everybody works together so it looks like it 's not all the same person doing everything . |
| 4 | She had gathered her robes around her , sunk to the ground and then had lifted her hand to her face ( so painfully it looked as though her wrist was broken ) with exactly the same gesture with which this man now covered his eyes . |
| 5 | On the uppermost landing , flanked by warders , stood a tall , powerfully-built figure in a dark blue suit , his greying hair slicked back so severely it appeared that he was bald . |
| 6 | We had our first moderate snow fall in mid-November last year , but so far it looks as though this winter will be milder than ever . |
| 7 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 8 | So far it appears that other monuments in care have not been affected , although Mousa Broch has yet to be visited . |
| 9 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 10 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 11 | How long ago it seemed since Sergeant Huzzi Rork had told Lexandro that he might return home again in twenty years , in thirty years , if the Fists so wished . |
| 12 | NOT SO LONG AGO it seemed that we had very nearly lost our fairy tale beasts . |
| 13 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 14 | Okay so sometimes it helps if when you see a word you pronounce it to yourself . |
| 15 | And right just there it hurts as well . |
| 16 | Yes er and of course i if er rather like it seems as happened last week , if he seems to have got a bit of time he seems to need to have to extend it |
| 17 | Even more importantly it showed that millions of electors could be made to take a stand in favour of the League of Nations , towards which many Conservatives were cynical or even hostile . |
| 18 | But more frequently it arose that , in the absence of a policewoman , the female field-worker was relied upon for comfort by female members of the public , engaging her in eye contact to find what they expected would be a special ‘ feminine ’ understanding and reassurance . |
| 19 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 20 | Once again it seems that the consequences of the death on family life , rather than the direct effects of the loss , may be crucial . |
| 21 | But once again it overlooks or rejects the underlying philosophy and purpose of a Commission 's proposal . |
| 22 | And once again it happened when an airline pilot became confused by Gatwick 's three parallel strips of concrete . |
| 23 | Presumably also it placed when he went erm when it placed a bit of a burden on the rest of you to ensure |
| 24 | Meanwhile my mind 's racing , or at least trying to race ; right now it feels like it 's stuck at the side of the track trying to get its legs out of its tracksuit bottoms and hopping around and falling down while the race takes place elsewhere . |
| 25 | Here also it appears that sub-sales are taken into account more readily than in the case of non-delivery . |
| 26 | Even then it ensured that there would be emasculating exemptions . |
| 27 | But here again it appears that poor Michael was , shall we say , not fully briefed . |
| 28 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | She 'd been trying to get rid of it and then suddenly it worked and she lost the baby . |
| 30 | I 'll come in the morning instead or whatever , erm but quite often it means if they 're coming in they say , well I 'll be in town anyway I 'll come in for that hour |