Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |
| 2 | Indeed , and by statute , in some senses it only begins . |
| 3 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 4 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
| 5 | In such cases it usually means that a man has , at some time in the past , hurt the cat in question . |
| 6 | On such occasions it often seems foolish to intervene , for nature has a way of eliminating stragglers . |
| 7 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 8 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 9 | Apart from these difficulties it soon became only too obvious that the drugs could be unexpectedly toxic . |
| 10 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 11 | But , like all machines it also has a mechanical structure . |
| 12 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 13 | Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred . |
| 14 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 15 | If there are any storylines it surely does n't help to wipe out the people who make them — . |
| 16 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 17 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
| 18 | Once a bill has received the assent of both Houses it then goes to the monarch for the Royal Assent . |
| 19 | Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained . |
| 20 | Under both governances it somehow managed , in friendly or hostile fashion , to draw supplies of meat , poultry and other foodstuffs from the fertile riverside plain known as the Merse ( or Marsh ) , which with its moderate rainfall was from early times one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country . |
| 21 | The Conservatives won 20 ( gained 6 , lost 9 ) ; Labour won 29 ( gained 10 , lost 4 ) ; the SLD won 17 ( gained 6 , lost 5 ) ; the SDP lost both seats it previously held ; independents won 4 ( gained 3 , lost 5 ) . |
| 22 | Standing lonely and remote in a geographical position roughly half way between the Orkneys and Shetland Islands people that know Fair Isle would perhaps agree that on most days it rather belies a somewhat optimistic name . |
| 23 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 24 | The figures in Table 4.2 suggest , not that the action project made no difference in delaying institutionalisation , but that in both locations it slightly increased the likelihood of institutional care . |
| 25 | According to Borland , Paradox 4 is between five and ten times faster than Version 3.5 — a program that was never accused of being a slouch — and on most tasks it reportedly matches or beats FoxPro , Microsoft 's swift dBase lookalike , which previously outpaced all comers . |