Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 2 | It effectively says that these computers understand English . |
| 3 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 4 | As this approach is a tough , personal , confrontational one it only works when both parties have something to gain or lose . |
| 5 | It only stops when some more chemicals arrive from the chemist . |
| 6 | Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance . |
| 7 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |
| 8 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 9 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 10 | I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference . |
| 11 | Erm it so happened that that the group that that Britain was supporting perhaps were constitutionalists although Canning was almost erm was always rather scathing about how liberal they were and how constitutionalist they were . |
| 12 | In Champagne , Patrick Forbes categorically states the gospel as held in Champagne : ‘ Now , it so happened that most of the top layer of chalk found on the Falaises is of a type known as Belemnita quadrata , which is markedly different from the Micraster chalk found on the plain below . |
| 13 | It so happened that this entailed doubling back a considerable way of the route , but , so Mr Charles assures me , my father accepted the request as though it were a perfectly reasonable one , and in general , continued to behave with immaculate courtesy . |
| 14 | None of this , however , should be interpreted as implying that Semai are callous or indifferent to the welfare of their neighbours and kin , which is certainly not the case ; it merely demonstrates that another person 's problems and affairs are pre-eminently his own ; ‘ hal mai , hal mai ; hal hii ’ , hal hii' ’ is the apposite aphorism : ‘ their affairs are theirs ; our affairs are ours . ’ |
| 15 | And it just seemed that that was the time to give up the tenancy . |
| 16 | This is n't for any covert reason , it just happens that most of the BBC 's committee rooms are down there ! |
| 17 | It just says that some parts of the business will throw off cash surpluses , that it may well not be worth investing further in those businesses , and that , in that case , the funds can be used to further investment elsewhere . |
| 18 | Some staff added other minor errors or disagreements but it soon emerged that some departments did not think that the report was fair and they criticized the general conclusion relating to their department . |
| 19 | Nor was it generally known that some newspapers had declined to accept such advertising on ethical grounds . |
| 20 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 21 | From Otto 's time on the ambition to be crowned emperor by the pope was an inevitable ambition for all German kings until long after the end of our period ; nor was it ever forgotten that this was in imitation of Charles . |
| 22 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 23 | Very minor on the scale of things but I 've had a car stolen , erm great inconvenience , ca n't believe its going to happen to you , did n't do any thing to have caused this , locked up and took all the precautions , and yet it still happened and some one , some where out there has my car . |
| 24 | However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress . |
| 25 | It hardly matters that this came in a setting of answers that were outlining Smith 's much-changed thinking . |
| 26 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 27 | Does it always seem that those biting insects get you but not your best friend ? |
| 28 | It also said that many human rights abuses went unreported , particularly in the countryside . |
| 29 | However , this pastoral mission is not only up against hardened heathens , but it also considers that some ought not even to be read the lesson . |
| 30 | It also recommended that all equity transactions should be published immediately , except those larger than the value of NMS , whereby publication will occur within 90 minutes . |