Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at the door , Ellie seemed quite unable to tear her eyes away as it slowly opened and Feargal walked in . |
| 2 | Witchcraft conceptions represent , as Monica Wilson has neatly expressed it , the ‘ standardized nightmares ’ of the community , the horrifying spectre of what it most fears and dreads , the sinister antithesis of all its hopes and expectations . |
| 3 | In the latter case , by including local government expenditure within the public expenditure totals , it effectively means that Cabinet makes decisions without reference to local authorities . |
| 4 | Cathy Massiter made it very clear in her television interview that MI5 and Special Branch alone decide who merits a dossier and which group they belong to and can open a file on any person or group of people or organisation they please , put into it anything they like , be it only gossip or hearsay , and once opened the file remains there indefinitely . |
| 5 | All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects . |
| 6 | It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz . |
| 7 | It so happened that Lady Thatcher was , at that very moment , engaged in a nasty altercation with the security men on the door of the Grand Hotel , having , in the excitement , forgotten to wear her conference badge . |
| 8 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 9 | It so happened that directors of the railway company who were house guests overheard this conversation and subsequently asked him if he would appear before the board and tell the story of his journey and travelling companion . |
| 10 | It so happened that Clare and Mark were here tonight , but that was just chance . |
| 11 | It so happened that Hazel had never seen a crow . |
| 12 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 13 | It so happened that Mr. Allan Levy was appearing before him . |
| 14 | Lovely gel she was — when it suddenly looked like Surrey could win the Championship . ’ |
| 15 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 16 | But this conclusion is not particularly illuminating as it merely says that children come into local authority care when no one else can care for them , a repetitive statement we call a tautology . |
| 17 | It merely claims that authorities should do that which they were appointed to do . |
| 18 | The panspermia hypothesis does not deny that life started in a ‘ primeval soup ’ , it merely shows that life can come together in a variety of different ways . |
| 19 | But is it enough to say that periods of structural change are marked by crises ? |
| 20 | It constantly happens that men with an unbroken record of success and public applause suddenly lay the burden down . |
| 21 | Suppose it is known that a certain element A stands in a relation R to a second element B. If R is an asymmetric relation , then it necessarily follows that B does not stand in the relation R to A ( the relation of B to A in that case is the converse of R ) . |
| 22 | A symmetric relation , on the other hand , holds simultaneously in both directions ; ‘ is similar to — ’ is a symmetric relation , so if A is similar to B , then it necessarily follows that B is similar to A. The second indispensable property for the relation of dominance of a hierarchy is the capacity , in principle at least , to form indefinitely long chains of elements . |
| 23 | Oh yes , you get that , you get that kind of mimicry , but again you 'd expect it in , in , in both sexes I should think , unless it just happens that males for example normally are bigger and then it 's taken on a , a secondary characteristic which is a possibility . |
| 24 | Well , maybe he did n't actually shout , it just felt that way as my brain recoiled on its springs . |
| 25 | Or else it 's the Croup , the Colic , the Beads it just swallowed or double |
| 26 | However : ‘ In context , the absence of clear sentence boundaries does not mean that conversation is difficult to follow : it just shows that conversation is organised in a different way from writing ’ ( Leech et al. , p. 8/7 ) . |
| 27 | It just shows that bargains are still to be had at such sales , and most are not nicked . |
| 28 | awareness that it just stands and bleats and does nothing because it can do nothing ! |
| 29 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 30 | It just appeared that way because they could n't see the wonkyness of the rubber , ’ said Gedanken . |