Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 2 | Only one arrangement looked as though it belonged together : those two lines of dots and blanks , they must be binary numbers . |
| 3 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 4 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 5 | As the first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the open doorway , the newly-plastered room looked as though it had been covered in the night by a fine layer of pinkish-buff snow . |
| 6 | His hair , by contrast , fell untidily to his shoulders and his patchy beard looked as though it had been stuck on at random . |
| 7 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
| 8 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 9 | Bicker 's face looked as though it had been ground out on a millstone , but Ratagan was beaming . |
| 10 | For once he really looked quite smart , in well-cut grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and strength of his thighs , and a cream shirt that actually looked as though it had been ironed . |
| 11 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 12 | Remember that , even if no such room exists for you , you have written as though it does . |
| 13 | The correlation between prohibition and inhibition is offered as though it explained everything , or at best , the prohibition is held to have arisen by ‘ myth making ’ or ‘ ritualisation ’ ( Bischof , 1972 ) . |
| 14 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 15 | Evans reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper , crumpled as though it had been thrust deeply and desperately out of sight . |
| 16 | ‘ ( 1 ) Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect and ( 2 ) Whether the provisions of section 15(1) and of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 are mutually exclusive in the sense that if the facts proved would justify a conviction under section 15(1) there can not lawfully be a conviction under section 1(1) on those facts . |
| 17 | ‘ He stated tersely in terms , at p. 633 : ‘ The first question posed in the certificate was : ‘ Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without having the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect . ’ |
| 18 | The first question certified was ‘ Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without having the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ One of the questions of law of general public importance which the House was required to answer was : ‘ Whether section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 is to be construed as though it contained the words ‘ without having the consent of the owner ’ or words to that effect . ’ |
| 20 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |