Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was actually quite a productive meeting , although it took quite a time to get through it , I think we did the right thing on the continuous procedures . |
| 2 | Although it comprises only a dozen paintings , sixteen works on paper and thirteen woodcuts and other graphic material , it is , in fact , the most significant presentation of his art since the Guggenheim Museum 's ‘ Expressionism : A German intuition 1905-20 ’ of 1980 . |
| 3 | If it says so a sk sound usually just S K desk ask disk frisk . |
| 4 | ‘ Your house will be worth a lot more now , ’ people remarked brightly , which observation — if it brought forth a reply at all — was countered by a snapped : ‘ I did n't buy it as an investment ’ . |
| 5 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |
| 6 | And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out . |
| 7 | Cos it looks quite a decent reasonable bungalow . |
| 8 | A fat , pale child with yellow hair , smiling , jam on its upper lip , unless it had also a red moustache . |
| 9 | It is one-trial , because it requires only a single peck for the bird to learn ; it is avoidance because the result of the learning is for the bird to stop doing something it otherwise would ; and it is passive because the bird is not required actively to avoid , as it would if it had to escape from some unpleasant condition , but merely to refrain from pecking . |
| 10 | This property is , however , not conceptualized as something in itself ( a kind of mystical link between people and things as it is with fully developed private property ) because it remains only an aspect of the social relations of which the tribe consists . |
| 11 | Social anthropologists have had great difficulty in giving a clear definition of taboo , because it involves both an element of the sacred , the holy , and of the uncanny , the forbidden , and the dangerous . |
| 12 | But those who bought the book from the human interest angle may have been disappointed because it contains only a couple of references to my condition . |
| 13 | Modern elite theory differs from its antecedents in aristocratic and normative elitism because it puts forward an empirical picture of the way human societies operate which is not closely linked to a particular view of the way social arrangements should be organized . |
| 14 | But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East . |
| 15 | Physical mapping of genomes by constucting ordered libraries of overlapping clones is an essential step in the analysis of the information contained in the genomic DNA sequence , since it gives both a high resolution map of the genome and easy access to the cloned DNA for molecular analysis of genes , transcripts and regulatory sequences . |
| 16 | Since it gives only a single output there will be no distinction between the zero in its output due to an edge being properly located in its receptive field and a zero due to the absence of an edge altogether . |
| 17 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Before it gets there a barricade of grey concrete blocks daubed with ‘ Free Lithuania ’ and ‘ Independence for Baltic Countries ’ has been drawn across the street . |
| 19 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 20 | Fearing to open it , she nevertheless forced herself across the room , but when it swung open a maid in a black dress and smart white apron stood before her . |
| 21 | She moved forward , about to press her ear against the door , when it slid open a little . |
| 22 | That is my first and most powerful memory of separation from my mother , and even though it lasted only a year , those feelings of rejection and insecurity have coloured my life . |
| 23 | In these four ways , housing differs from other consumer goods though it remains fundamentally a private market commodity . |
| 24 | The great city was a portent , though it contained only a minority of the population . |
| 25 | This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister . |
| 26 | The lyrical meditation proper to the second degree of love that he includes in Ego Dormio projects a lightness of spirit as it embodies rhetorically a sense of the joyful reality behind the story which is the goal of the contemplative . |
| 27 | X-ray diffraction ( XRD ) analysis ( see glossary ) is ideally suited to this sort of problem as it requires only a minute sample and , most important , it identifies the mineral or compound present . |
| 28 | The earth seemed to be breaking up , and as it did so a white vapour erupted from the soil . |
| 29 | The use in the emperor 's reply of the expression verba precaria is revealing , for it shows already a tendency to treat precatory words as characteristic of trusts , as something which sets them apart from the dispositions of the civil law . |
| 30 | I used the time by moving from the Temple to Peel Square — not a formidable job , for it required only a suitcase and a taxi . |