Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 2 | Students should come not merely to know that such and such is the case , or that this procedure works , but should be able to offer their own account of why it is the case or why it works . |
| 3 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 4 | Murder or not it had to go on , and next day it did , Rose saw to that , although she was not herself . |
| 5 | Having looked briefly at some of the background to anticipated grief and why it occurs we need to consider how it gets expressed when someone is expected to die . |
| 6 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 7 | Wordsworth is often considered to be cold , egotistical and self-sufficient , but what he writes about here is the warmth of a stranger 's greeting and how it increased his pleasure in the sunset . |
| 8 | Further discussion about AIDS and how it affects the individual is included in Chapter 15 dealing with the AL of expressing sexuality . |
| 9 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 10 | Apprenticeship training is essentially about ensuring standards of workmanship and characteristically it appears at first sight to take an unconscionably long time . |
| 11 | In the early stages of a book I always write out two things : one , the plot , that is , the murder and how it happened and perhaps how eventually it will be seen for what it is ; two , the story ( which to make what I mean even clear to myself I generally label " The Storyline " ) , that is , in very rough outline what happens first and what happens next and next and next . |
| 12 | There was a poster on the wall that carried a picture of a rather idealized SS soldier and underneath it said , ‘ At the end stands victory . ’ |
| 13 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 14 | Nevertheless she 'd put it round her neck and there it had stayed ever since while she 'd tried with scant success to forget the brief period of ecstasy she 'd shared with the man whose gift it had been . |
| 15 | In Lesley Hall 's chapter on children 's perception , the emphasis is on visual search and how it develops from infancy to childhood and maturity . |
| 16 | If we are to understand visual search and how it develops in children , we need a fuller understanding of the interplay between task characteristics , children 's linguistic comprehension of task instructions , and children 's appreciation of the economy and efficiency of selective visual search in appropriate contexts . |
| 17 | She talked of the spectre of Pre Menstrual Tension and how it blighted her life . |
| 18 | The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them . |
| 19 | It is a good example of a major service being given to local government so that local rather than national democracy can determine the details of its future and how it flies in the face of the criticisms of the party opposite , that we 're always taking important things away from local government . |
| 20 | It was quite incredible to see the original fabric and how it changed completely when washed and steam pressed and how easy it was to use as a lovely flat piece of fabric . |
| 21 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 22 | The only thing he could talk about with any certainty was his condition and how it made him feel . |
| 23 | Offerings of food are placed before the figure and so it assumes a role almost equal to that of a human , and it is in this light that it becomes understandable why the sanctum of Indian temples is usually taboo to all but the priests who attend the icon and perform the ceremonial prayers . |
| 24 | Prohibition is only available to restrain illegal action and so it plays no part in correcting errors of law within jurisdiction , for which certiorari is the only remedy . |
| 25 | I think it said five six seven eight nine ten or summat on one side and then it said six seven eight nine on other side . |
| 26 | At the time of the revolt , the Queen and the Court were in residence for the summer at San Sebastian on Spain 's northern coast and once it became clear that her reign was at an end , Isabella crossed the frontier into France , asking Napoleon III for political asylum . |
| 27 | Not only will this worsen the symptoms of ‘ jet-lag ’ and any problems associated with shift-work but also it impairs the effectiveness of many systems which are responsible for controlling the body . |
| 28 | The time factor was obviously the most urgent one and my five months in England were used to forward the plans for operating the Department when once it got back to Burma . |
| 29 | They were showing a film , The Life of Christ , and though this was clearly an illusion as well it had taken place in real life , and uncle was very much a believer . |
| 30 | I mean , I 'm scared of anything up , they 'll be some conflict and you do get these kind of people in college as well it frightens me |