Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the years 1952–5 , it successfully defended its primacy in Lebanese affairs despite its rout on the battlefield in 1952 . |
2 | Erm the fact of the matter is sir as you 'll have detected from today 's earlier discussions it rather suits me policy I twelve because it gives a local authority the ability to plan for employment development in addition to their I five allocation . |
3 | An adder had been seen ; it slowly wound its way along the track before sensing intruders and slithering off into cover . |
4 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
5 | For Gordon it is fallacious to say that if a tribunal blunders in its estimation of the factors involved in a subject-matter properly before it and thereby misconceives the questions that it should consider , that it thereby exceeds its jurisdiction . |
6 | Distressed by the cold it eventually leaves its mother 's side and finds the warmth and comfort of the dry stable . |
7 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
8 | Ridgewell considered that this decrease began about 1952 and it apparently reached its maximum about 1961 , when no breeding Sparrowhawks were reported from anywhere in the county . |
9 | It only proves my point . |
10 | Nonetheless , the House of Bruce , for a brief while , tasted royalty and many claim it only whetted their appetite . |
11 | Unlike T.V. , the microphone ‘ knows ’ if you are not sincere , do n't know your facts , just stupid , etc. as it only hears your voice ( no facial expression , hand gestures , etc . ) |
12 | Well of course when I went to the Isle of Man , see , I went on the boat and er , you see , and er it only cost me ninepence for a , a landing er for the landing stage . |
13 | But you see it only becomes my experience as I exercise the faith that God has given to me . |
14 | But putting these accounts together does not unfortunately add up to a multi-dimensional model which could provide the basis for a general theory ; it only amplifies their essentialism . |
15 | I do it only to augment my income . ’ |
16 | I see I could do it by degrees ; it only blistered my hand in two places . |
17 | Now it only increased his determination to find out what had made her so wary , so controlled . |
18 | The fact that he could get such good results by orthodox bowling also left one wondering why he occasionally indulged in a bouncer war , for it obviously did his reputation no good and was not as a rule very productive . |
19 | It obviously precluded its use in everyday transactions , such as buying loaves of bread . |
20 | It obviously dominated his life at the moment . |
21 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
22 | Only last year it suddenly shut its Speedlink service for individual wagonloads of freight . |
23 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
24 | This is one feature of the Faculty 's programmes highly regarded by students , as it appreciably enhances their employment prospects . |
25 | But it is an open question whether his policies will loosen it sufficiently to keep his country in the competition . |
26 | It might look at the purpose of the rule , and imply a term which , though not amending the rule , supplemented it sufficiently to change its emphasis — perhaps by holding that it was not meant to apply after the introduction of the cash-settled contracts . |
27 | In their case , there seems no doubt that it greatly enhanced their belief in the strength of their royalty as kings of Scotland . |
28 | Max Klein 's wife , Dora , however , had recently begun to tolerate this prohibition with definite , if unexpressed , ill-grace , finding that it greatly restricted her opportunity of parading before the community Max 's newly acquired Ford motor-car . |
29 | It merely broke his fall and carted him a couple of miles up the road . |
30 | Moscow did not change its standard position ; it merely repeated its willingness to guarantee any agreement concluded between ASEAN and Indo-China alongside the other members of the UN Security Council . |