Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 2 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 3 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 4 | So when I take this out and pout this through the window it shines straight up and you can look at the clouds and you can tell which direction the wind is . |
| 5 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 6 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |
| 7 | The formal school , in short , remains separate from the community it serves very largely because the people in that community wish it to be so . |
| 8 | The Council was aware of the ‘ high degree of priority and urgency ’ to be attached to this work , but in making the commitment it pointed out also that leaving freedom to colleges to devise and conduct their courses meant that ‘ the consequent interaction between College and Council can stretch over a fair amount of time ’ . |
| 9 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 10 | When finely ground coal dust is injected into the mixture it burns more quickly and with less pollution . |
| 11 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 12 | Begun in 1446 by Henry VI as a private place of worship for just 70 scholars it took no less than 69 years to build , being completed in 1515 on the instructions of Henry VII but only after his death . |
| 13 | During the two world wars it rose very rapidly and then fell when peace was restored . |
| 14 | And three times it come on on and off ! |
| 15 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 16 | And did that cross the line it has n't yet and Ormanroyd comes out with the ball . |
| 17 | but if you 're doing the letter E it goes up there and comes down okay ? |
| 18 | The Ridgery was clay on chalk ; heavy land difficult to work where it sloped gently towards the east : in the winter it lay sodden and cold , in summer it dried as hard as brick and there were cracks in it . |
| 19 | For six weeks after our arrival it rained almost continually and the wind howled melancholy dirges around our chimneys and doors . |
| 20 | It is always laborious to find the components of a vector , so we are not much better off with A than with H or B. It turns out however that A is a more basic quantity of physics than B. Since B is given by the curl of A it is possible that A is finite while its curl is zero . |
| 21 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 22 | This year it froze right through and they all spent the afternoon of Christmas Eve sliding on it . |
| 23 | At sea it rolled so violently that passengers on upper decks were far less ill than those in the special saloon . |
| 24 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 25 | Built from the debris of planets , moons and comets , the sphere had originally been designed to completely enclose its star , collecting all the energy it gave out rather than letting the vast majority of it escape away into space . |
| 26 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |