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

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1 No apparently it takes the whole top of it
2 How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years .
3 Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like .
4 And so it deposits the extra calories it does not need as fat .
5 So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA .
6 I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do .
7 Well and so it split the Labour Party and the from er at that time you know we got five hundred members in with the Labour Party .
8 So it behoves the healthy eater to assess the Indian menu for the best options , since chances are circumstances , friends and hunger will take him or her there sooner rather than later !
9 And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality .
10 Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia .
11 However , as Child ( 1984 ) has pointed out , only the formal structure is subject to control and planning by management , thus it remains the fundamental concern of organisation theory .
12 Thus it spread the Labour gospel of women as mothers .
13 Walton stresses that there is no simple concept or criterion of the child 's best interests which can be applied in a crude rule-of-thumb way , and no group or individual which has sole authority to assume that generally it has the best conception of the child 's interests .
14 In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes .
15 A square block of flats was almost finished ; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper .
16 " But oh " may be a somewhat pallid rendering of ( ) , yet still it signals the crucial turn in the poem 's argument .
17 Indeed , the lower the blood pressure the better , because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks .
18 ‘ $ ’ , ‘ — ’ , ‘ - ’ , ‘ ! ’ . ie. It has the same syntax as the module name .
19 Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah .
20 Qualitatively it lacked the professional touch , and within individual libraries it lacked planning and co-ordination .
21 Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses .
22 But suppose there is a rule which says that the effectiveness of a synapse decreases whenever it causes the post-synaptic cell to fire .
23 Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed .
24 On Aug. 20 the Moldavian government ruled these secession moves unconstitutional , and two days later it outlawed the Popular Front-style Gagauz Khalky ( People 's ) Movement .
25 However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue .
26 there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life .
27 Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima .
28 Now it used the United Nations as its cover and it 's fortunate in that the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council and so was not able to veto the resolution which authorized American intervention .
29 Nevertheless , now it has the necessary imprimatur from the Pope , the Catechism will be sent for translation into dozens of languages and prepared for dispatch around the world .
30 Local Management of Schools must be judged on how far it enables the whole education service to respond to the needs of all pupils in the locality .
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