Example sentences of "a [noun] it [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 2 | For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his . |
| 3 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 4 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp reports that the state of Kentucky has awarded it a $10m contract to manage and provide technical and other support for state-wide educational reform ; the pact will enable DEC to start implementing a plan it developed as project consultant with the state education department — it plans to create the infrastructure for a state-wide information highway providing equitable access to technology and information throughout eight regional centres , 176 school districts and 1,400 schools across Kentucky ; the state 's public schools were declared unconstitutional in 1989 , primarily because of funding inequities between rich and poor school districts , and the new system is part of a wider plan to overhaul state schools ; it will be a model for other states in the use of technology in education reform . |
| 6 | For a moment it looked as though the desperate urgency of the international situation might enable peace activists to shift the dead weight of the party system . |
| 7 | For a moment it looked as though she was going to break down . |
| 8 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 9 | For a moment it seemed as though everyone but d'Arquebus would career back down fifty metres to the base of the tube . |
| 10 | For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender . |
| 11 | Friendly representations on Dryden 's behalf got the ban lifted ( Cleomenes opened on 16 April ) , but with an ugly gap threatened in the theatrical diary , for a while it looked as though The Fairy Queen would have to be brought forward . |
| 12 | For a while it looked as though Caledonian Mining , the Nottinghamshire-based firm which the consortium beat for the pit , would be involved . |
| 13 | Although the primary aims of this particular study are to simply explore the concept of risk in driving and the nature of memory for driving generally , the principle aim of the thesis as a whole it to decide whether memory for driving situations is related subjective risk at the time . |
| 14 | In 1928 he returned to the ‘ Stones of London ’ , emphasizing that even when approaching a church building ( here Westminster Abbey ) as a historical monument of major symbolic value and aesthetic interest , the fact could not be ignored that , poets ' corner or no , ‘ the Abbey was not originally designed primarily as a Pantheon , but as a Church ; and a Church it remains until it is ‘ disaffected ’ . |
| 15 | For a time it seemed as though the white working class had vanished . |
| 16 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 17 | I mean they are at the moment and if I have a meeting well after about an hour it seems as though you 've |
| 18 | When meditating deeply before such an idol it appears as if the image takes on the aura of a live human-being . |