Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The block surface is ignored as the cylinder is initially checked to establish that it successfully passes through the negative surface defining the interior boundary around the hole . |
| 2 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 3 | You might be surprised to find that it only means an increase in activity of fifteen percent of what you 're currently doing , to achieve something that 's in year three , that you 've got as year three , and you might think , ooh , that 's what I 'll do for year two . |
| 4 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 5 | In taking this position , the bishops were also following the lead of Pope John Paul II who , on his visit to Ireland in 1979 had argued : ‘ Divorce , for whatever reason it is introduced , inevitably becomes easier and easier to obtain and it gradually comes to be accepted as a normal part of life ’ ( 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Another decade was to pass before it really sank in , and he could write , ‘ What an ass I have been both for not knowing and for thinking I knew . |
| 7 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 8 | It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair . |
| 9 | The other officers drifted away , and Charles following into the office was relieved to see that it hardly differed from those he had known . |
| 10 | It would not be an exaggeration to stress the extent to which the nouveau roman has dictated the terms of critical discourse , nor to state that it still acts as the essential reference point in any definition of postmodern aesthetics . |
| 11 | The caveman 's body begins to sweat and it thus becomes wet and slippery . |
| 12 | Flora sat in the kitchen , laboriously practising chain stitch on a rag torn from an old shirt of Peter 's , and Anna , who was in charge of the cleaning-rota , went off to the church to see if it actually had been cleaned . |
| 13 | The first idea is refined into a hypothesis by collecting more evidence to see if it really works , and ultimately it may be elevated into the rather grand status of a Theory , if successful predictions can be based upon it . |
| 14 | If these ideas are taken together , and if three centuries of physics and chemistry are taken as the model to emulate , it is tempting to suggest that it really does not matter what the actors on the international scene have in their minds . |
| 15 | Hence , although acquaintance with ourselves seems probably to occur , it is not wise to assert that it undoubtedly does occur . |
| 16 | I am cynical enough to suspect that it probably happens , and it vividly illustrates the point about equipment improving while its net effectiveness stands still ( and its costs increase ) . |
| 17 | Therefore , if you are confronted with a rug decorated in an intricate and curvilinear floral-inspired scheme , it is reasonable to assume that it probably originates from a workshop group in one of the limited number of countries which specialize in these designs . |
| 18 | Labour 's hand on inflation would be strengthened if its leader were able to announce that it now supported early British entry into the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system . |
| 19 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 20 | Ruth had to smile because it certainly did n't sound like her . |
| 21 | The Eezit spray was easiest to use and it also neutralised nasty smells . |
| 22 | What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot . |
| 23 | He kills it eventually , he shoots it with this like hypodermic pistol to try to put it to sleep and it just explodes ! |
| 24 | But this what the act says on this particular point — it 's interesting to see because it really does come down on the side of integration . |
| 25 | The Werner plan , from which that prediction was drawn , was wrecked by events outside Europe — the Nixon shocks and partly the effects of the OPEC increase in the oil price — but no hon. Member seems able to recall that it ever existed . |
| 26 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 27 | After the sinking of HMS Sheffield , the Ministry of Defence asked MEL ( which makes the Abbey Hill equipment ) to come up with a modification to ensure that it rapidly alerted crews to further Exocet attacks . |
| 28 | I find this attitude hard to understand but it still prevails today . |
| 29 | British Airways ' proposed joint venture with a Russian division of Aeroflot is advancing slowly ( leading some observers to question whether it still lives ) but , according to the airline , steadily . |
| 30 | The only thing is that this text gives no reason to suppose that it also applied in cognitio . |