Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Normally it takes about six days to arrange a visit , even if you cable both ways .
2 But Mitchell wo n't condone the taking of life and soon it seems both good guys and bad guys want him out of the way .
3 Thus it includes both lexical choice — choice of words from the vocabulary of the language — and the grammatical choices involved in combining these words into sentences .
4 Somehow it seemed safer that way . ’
5 It takes honestly it takes so much willpower to grow your hair it really does .
6 Now both Stan and I have the same policy that erm we will write out It takes about ten minutes , or maybe a little bit longer with me , cos I 'm not as clever as Stan .
7 There was another coalfield on the west coast the Cumberland coalfield — but this had only 16 mines and now it has only one mine but several opencast workings .
8 To begin with , its uses are somewhat limited by its bland taste — even enthusiasts agree that it needs to absorb flavours in a recipe such as a stir-fry or casserole to draw out its best qualities : though arguably it has slightly more taste and texture than tofu , tempeh and TVP .
9 that is how it seemed earlier this week , as people began making educated guesses about the outcome of the weekend 's referendum .
10 I have shown how the new and relatively autonomous movement for the installation of English as a central mechanism for general education became strengthened within civil society ; and furthermore how it built sufficiently strong links with the official state for its leaders to offer the service of the movement for the joint promotion of English as a cultural instrument of the nation-state .
11 Sometimes it makes very good sense to borrow money for something .
12 If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander .
13 Indeed it made very few references to the Mediterranean initiative unlike the heavy coverage of the Soviet scheme to neutralise the Persian Gulf .
14 This political opposition involved no ecological critique of mining 's effects : instead it wanted more industrial development , smelters to go with the mines , and major state involvement , if not outright nationalization .
15 This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests .
16 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears Only those books come down which deserve to last .
17 Derives its name from the central Persian village where it evolved over 200 years ago , and is a more delicate and sensuous variation of the mina-khani composition .
18 She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time .
19 Oh that 's why it had so much impact , because it really was different on that .
20 In fact it is more of a puzzle to work out why it took so many decades to become established ( Hatton 1986 ) .
21 It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity .
22 I think that is why it has so many cinema fans and why the best cinema creators in Spain come from there .
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