Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather resembles a Victorian village school in outline ( or perhaps Victorian village schools resemble it ! ) , with its steep roof and dormer windows looking like belfries ; you fully expect to see a vicarage and church in the same style hovering nearby . |
| 2 | Standing lonely and remote in a geographical position roughly half way between the Orkneys and Shetland Islands people that know Fair Isle would perhaps agree that on most days it rather belies a somewhat optimistic name . |
| 3 | Carried out behind closed doors — in workrooms , laboratories and offices — it rarely gets a mention in the media despite the fact that excavations are often featured . |
| 4 | It rarely pushed a non-paying customer into bankruptcy . |
| 5 | In other words , although CDTV is designed to look like appliance technology , it discreetly provides a conversion option making it possible , if desired , to turn CDTV into an overt computer system . |
| 6 | As a group develops , it slowly attains a responsibility towards the people who work for it . |
| 7 | Salgado 's photo-essay opens a window onto a world that seems authentically antique — as far off as when the Pyramids were being built — but it presumably touched a nerve with editors because it is also a parable of greed with global relevance . |
| 8 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 9 | As chairman Sir Peter Thompson explains in his statement , ‘ With the spotlight on corporate governance following the report of the Cadbury Committee , we have felt it right to make a statement on how the group complies with best practice in this area . ’ |
| 10 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 11 | It effectively initiated a programme of council-house building that has continued , albeit subject to regular modification as governments have changed the subsidy arrangements , until the present day . |
| 12 | As a group swells in size with natural increase of population and with new members joining it from outside , it eventually reaches a point where it ceases to enjoy an optimum exploitative relationship with its physical and economic resources . |
| 13 | For cellulose acetate there is a transformation from a hard brittle state below 273 K to a softer but tougher type of polymer at temperatures above 273 K. For poly ( methyl methacrylate ) the hard brittle characteristics are retained to a much higher temperature , but it eventually reaches a soft tough state at about 320 K. Thus if the requirements of high rigidity and toughness are to be met , the temperature is important . |
| 14 | It eventually saved a year 's tyre wear on the Class 317s , and meant a lot more string and sticky tape on the clapped-out DMUs . |
| 15 | Sodomy was associated with witches , demons , werewolves , basilisks , foreigners , and ( of course ) papists ; and it apparently signified a wide range of practices including prostitution , under-age sex , coitus interruptus , and female transvestism . |
| 16 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 17 | It apparently adds a ‘ twist ’ to the public choice argument that local Leviathans are in chains with many competing districts . |
| 18 | At all events , it only lasted a moment . |
| 19 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 20 | And he did — but it only lasted a week ! |
| 21 | It only lasted a matter of seconds , but when Fen lifted his head Robbie felt incapable of speech and movement . |
| 22 | If they were held at bay longer than they anticipated and carried into the final day , it only seemed a stay of execution for the West Indies . |
| 23 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 24 | It only takes a moment 's carelessness to make a present of your valuables to the thief . |
| 25 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 26 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 27 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 28 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 29 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 30 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |