Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium . |
| 2 | Over the last 2000 years the Church has thought it right to make many changes : in patterns of ministry , in liturgical forms , in ethical emphasis , in doctrine . |
| 3 | It effectively halted all plans to transport aid from the port , although the EPLF 's aid arm , the Eritrean Relief Association , asked for shipments to be resumed under its control . |
| 4 | It eventually absorbed these activities into its own growth and development . |
| 5 | Through the book Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine by John Speed [ q.v. ] ( 1612 ) it eventually provided several generations of British and foreign map-users with their cartographic image of central and southern Ireland . |
| 6 | This principle does not limit the processing of data , it merely requires such activities to be registered , in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1984 . |
| 7 | At best , it merely clarifies some aspects of the processes by which parties with different , even mutually conflicting , objectives manage to reach agreement both can live with . |
| 8 | In these situations there is no hope for an end to these ‘ holy ’ conflicts unless there becomes available some completely new religion which rejects all existing ‘ gods ’ , and offers an alternative form of religion and deity with viability so well reasoned and convincing that it inexorably eliminates all others . |
| 9 | ‘ It just killed all hopes I had . |
| 10 | So , you know cos it just says all candidates receiving . |
| 11 | It just stops any eventualities . ’ |
| 12 | The Cadbury Report has placed corporate governance firmly on the profession 's agenda , but it scarcely provides any answers . |
| 13 | It already pays all claims of more than £220 in Northern Ireland — at a cost of £680m over the past 23 years . |
| 14 | It already has some reports from Ipswich as that bane of gardening life , the cabbage white butterfly , appears to be adapting to the traditional winter in the region . |
| 15 | Whilst the Bill of Rights thus resolved the basic position for the future , it nevertheless left several questions unanswered and we must now turn to these : |
| 16 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 17 | While the yield to maturity is the single most commonly used measure of yield , it nevertheless has several disadvantages . |
| 18 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 19 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 20 | It usually takes several days for the pain to subside , although it can linger for weeks . |
| 21 | It usually has more nails on its feet than the African species . |
| 22 | It certainly sees urban concentrations as resulting from industrialisation and capitalism : but it rapidly places these considerations to one side and looks to interactions between people as the prime explanation . |
| 23 | It still encompasses those things too , but the fusions of music and word and gesture that new opera can sustain are both rich and mysterious , and , significantly , capable of attracting an audience that would find the old-fashioned operatic conventions quite outside its frame of reference . |
| 24 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 25 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 26 | The Imperial Airways ground staff at Karachi assisted with the repair of the Croydon , but without the facilities available in England it still took several weeks . |
| 27 | But even when unanimity is the genuine product of a free decision on the part of all , it still poses some problems . |
| 28 | The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere . |
| 29 | The second , smaller , chest has clearly been ransacked but it still has some items inside . |
| 30 | It still has these spots , although they have n't got any worse and the other fish have not been affected . |