Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever , it eventually became impossible to ensure compliance . |
| 2 | The company remains tight-lipped about the launch date for its long-awaited 88110 upgrades to the AViiONs , which it apparently has ready to go in the Labs . |
| 3 | It suddenly seemed necessary to stake some claim openly . |
| 4 | Barbara , snowy sheets , stolen weekends … it suddenly seemed important to remember that she was a tireless charity worker , a champion bridge player , an indefatigable rider to hounds . |
| 5 | It suddenly seemed important to keep the conversation as close as possible to something you might have read in an old book . |
| 6 | He put his huge right hand on her polished gold kneecaps , because it suddenly looked ridiculous lying around on the arm of a chair , and said , ’ No . ’ |
| 7 | It just seemed pointless to do , do what all the , the way down the morning and then after do all the way down the other end . |
| 8 | It is a time of abject misery , when it just seems impossible to face the consequences of the loss that has occurred . |
| 9 | ‘ It just seems odd to do it where no one is likely to see it . |
| 10 | It just seems right to bring a hobby , my experience and a livelihood together and we are very set on giving it a go , ’ Mrs Rowan said . |
| 11 | But to me it just seems wrong to have the government involved in any kind of censorship or questions of taste . |
| 12 | The question to be asked , therefore , is : can the nation afford to increase the resources it already feels obliged to expend on the very old ? |
| 13 | In non-residential transactions , the National Protocol will not be used , but it nevertheless remains important to obtain a clear schedule of fixtures and fittings included and excluded . |
| 14 | The furnaces were far from economical in their use of charcoal and it soon became necessary to replace the heavy drain on established woodlands with the careful use of coppiced underwood . |
| 15 | It soon becomes necessary to shift to the fourth stage of the process , referred to as seeking sponsorship . |
| 16 | ‘ All kinds of typographical fireworks are now made possible by computers and that has generated its own trend : if this or that trick can be done , then it soon becomes fashionable to go ahead and do it . |
| 17 | It thus becomes crucial to determine what errors fall outside jurisdiction . |
| 18 | It thus becomes difficult to talk in general terms about the scheme , although there are a number of features which appear reasonably consistently between different parts of the schedules . |
| 19 | It thus becomes difficult to identify a specifically black LE , although there seem to be certain features of accent which community members are able to use to identify unseen speakers as black . |
| 20 | In terms of policy it thus became essential to try to weaken the English grip upon both the sea and the main rivers , such as the Oise , which flowed into the Seine , by seeking to detach the Burgundians from their English links . |
| 21 | It thus seems possible to conclude that no B II junctions play significant roles in the solution conformation of the CRE dodecamer . |
| 22 | At some stage it usually becomes necessary to move the dementing tenant to further care . |
| 23 | No more was said of the job and it rapidly became impossible to tell who was trying to please whom over the matter of the Venetian lantern . |
| 24 | Again the harsh voice sounded in his inner ear , ‘ … should it ever become necessary to activate this device , I assure you that both I and my staff will be well clear of its effects . |
| 25 | It still remains difficult to explain the Gingin Chalk of faraway Australia , though one might guess that this is part of the same phenomenon that produced the almost world-wide " Cenomanian transgression " . |
| 26 | Here , in the natural sciences , despite the complex patterns that exist at the research level , it still seems appropriate to use the broad categories identified by Comte and embodied in the nomenclature of undergraduate degrees — the physical , the chemical , the biological — while recognizing that there are gradations between these ( physical chemistry , biochemistry ) and foci and links within and across them ( geology , biophysics , physiology or ecology ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , it hardly seemed right to leave them there in the circumstances . |
| 28 | When John was so short-tempered , it hardly seemed possible to conduct a civilised conversation . |
| 29 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 30 | It hardly seems necessary to talk about such things as nuclear winters and being fried by ultra-violet radiation . |