Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the Alliance advance occurred in its traditional heartlands of the north , where it successfully exploited economic and political insecurities of the local bourgeoisie . |
| 2 | It duly went septic . |
| 3 | It expressly stated that |
| 4 | who speaks to you , er it 's easy enough to just er have the microphone handy that they do n't see and just switch the tape on and I 'll record what they 're saying , come away , see , do it secretly like that , they do n't have to know really that they 're on tape and it does n't really matter , I mean the people who will listen to these tapes are er anonymous you know |
| 5 | Leaving aside the question of how such a perfect and whole symbiotic relationship could have ever evolved , Darwinian-style and piecemeal , out of ‘ random fluctuations in the DNA of wasp and orchid ’ , we are left with the interesting observation that the mind structure , or instinct , of the wasp is organized in such a way that it instinctively seeks this particular shape , for the purposes of fulfilling its urge to mate . |
| 6 | There 's one other point that 's important to make about the contribution that companies can make about having their own house in order , and it rather echoes some of the questions which are coming up in a , in a question session . |
| 7 | It rather got lost in the rush . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It rather sounds that way to me . ’ |
| 9 | Where we think and I mentioned this in the conclusion , and indeed , in the recommendation , where we think as officers it rather falls short , is that , although it does mention in the text , equal opportunities in all our er , activities as we would understand it here . |
| 10 | So is it badly smashed this car or is it just the bumper ? |
| 11 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 12 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 13 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 14 | The emphasis of woman-centred methods on particular ways of articulating personal experience also makes it highly socially specific , but it rarely recognizes this . |
| 15 | But it rarely happens that way . |
| 16 | This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium . |
| 17 | She disliked losing her temper against her will because it rarely achieved useful results and symbolised impotence rather than strength : always better to channel anger than display it , she thought . |
| 18 | Rasbora caudimaculata the Red Scissortail can be a trickly fish to acclimatise to aquarium life , but once well established it rarely gives further problems . |
| 19 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 20 | And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all . |
| 21 | It blatantly encourages young people to live on credit which is extremely undesirable , and brought about by their greed in getting people to buy their goods in every possible manner . |
| 22 | Mrs Frizzell digested this truth , and the import of it slowly became clear to her . |
| 23 | But perhaps the breakdown in the city 's sense of itself is as useful an emblem as any for Europe as it uneasily approaches 1992 . |
| 24 | This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees . |
| 25 | At least in Europe and America , it mostly strikes homosexual and bisexual men , and drug-users . |
| 26 | At some level of expenditure it presumably becomes inequitable for a disabled person to expect public support for the more expensive domiciliary care if this means depriving someone else of care of any sort . |
| 27 | I do not think it right to ban all these services . |
| 28 | Over the last 2000 years the Church has thought it right to make many changes : in patterns of ministry , in liturgical forms , in ethical emphasis , in doctrine . |
| 29 | That said , however , the decisive reason why we now think it right to determine this application on its substantive merits is that we have all three of us arrived at a very clear conclusion upon the case and , moreover , a conclusion reached with particular regard to the very special facts of the case . |
| 30 | BNFL , along with the electricity industry , have felt it right to contribute substantial support to this initiative . |