Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And so it deposits the extra calories it does not need as fat . |
| 3 | Indeed , the lower the blood pressure the better , because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To work effectively it needs the right partners and considerable organisation and communication . |
| 7 | Yeah but then it split the bloody pairs all in bits . |
| 8 | Yet it encapsulates the central themes of the Christian faith . |
| 9 | In terms of growth that we actually want erm unlike I think perhaps one of the we do n't want to put all our eggs into erm one one basket erm one million pounds in terms of er of course we want to do that the income of the budget which is actually feasible and practicable er in terms of of I take it that as where it says the Liberal Democrats are going from a growth of a hundred and fifty million erm on town centres that there probably was an error . |
| 10 | The court concluded this part of its judgment by explaining why it regarded the discretionary powers of the trial judge as insufficient to safeguard against an abuse of the power of interrogation , and by stating , at p. 740 : |
| 11 | That 's why it needs the extra lanes . |