Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those were the words of Emperor Franz Joseph on St. Wolfgang , which just goes to show how much it takes to get an Emperor really excited . |
| 2 | There is no real rule of thumb for how much it costs to convert a barn . |
| 3 | There is really no way of knowing how long it takes to develop an actor who has already gained a lot from work in university . |
| 4 | Someone is sure to ask you how long it takes to knit a jumper , but do n't tell them the exact number of hours and minutes , or they will expect their jumper by tomorrow ! |
| 5 | Erm well it depends erm the , the economics of power production are extremely erm er complex and , and t to a certain extent arbitrary erm and erm I mean there , there are various ways that the government can actually get out of this fix because obviously it 's caused a lot of concern to close the , the mines , and one is actually to , to subsidize the mines and put the price on to electricity bills er the other is to subsidize the mines er but pay for it out of the , out of , er out of taxes so it 's a basic , instead of paying for it on your electricity bill , you pay for it on your tax bill , yeah . |
| 6 | And obviously it 's had an impact on the row of shops out on Road for example . |
| 7 | So it has become a fashion now . |
| 8 | So it has made a lot of difference . |
| 9 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 10 | somewhere in that region , so it 's increased a lot , but trade say in Europe has , has decreased in wheat over that period . |
| 11 | Oh , I 've been down here about twenty years though so it 's faded a bit |
| 12 | So it 's made a lot , a big difference too . |
| 13 | So it 's taken an hour just to drop her off , Get parked and get in here . |
| 14 | While creating a bit mapped image is quick and easy it does have a number of significant disadvantages . |
| 15 | The novelty of such a situation will be more apparent if we compare with it what can be called the classical situation of the ancient world between 600 and 300 B.C. It has become a commonplace , after Karl Jaspers ' Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte — the first original book on history to appear in post-war Germany in 1949 — to speak of the Achsenzeit , of the axial age , which included the China of Confucius and Lao-Tse , the India of Buddha , the Iran of Zoroaster , the Palestine of the Prophets and the Greece of the philosophers , the tragedians and the historians . |
| 16 | In the mid eighties we invested our members money in a National Education Centre , and now ten years later it 's become a Conference Centre and a hotel and we 're not fully booked , can be used for training the stewards , along with the occasional Regional Council meeting for the Lancashire Region . |
| 17 | It is larger than the Petra model , but Lorraine points out it does have a diffuser attachment , six heat/speed settings and a removable filter . |
| 18 | yeah it ends in I A , and it might begin with O it begins with a vowel kind a it 's a lu the Russian walk out it 's got a Z in it . |
| 19 | Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk . |
| 20 | Now it has become a scene of misery and discontent . |
| 21 | There was a time when planned obsolescence was capitalism 's dirty little secret — now it has become a selling point . |
| 22 | And now it has launched a Home Emergency Service to do the same for homeowners . |
| 23 | Now it has launched a series of competitions to select the best ways of filling the gaps in Britain 's armoury . |
| 24 | Now it has submitted a planning application to double the size of its current premises — a two-bedroom bungalow on the Severalls Hospital site in Colchester . |
| 25 | Now it 's got a bit more abstract and we use money instead of animals but the principle 's the same . ’ |
| 26 | So really it 's given a 9% increase to farmers which I think is long overdue really . |
| 27 | And she said well it does take a time for the vans to dry out . |
| 28 | Well it does look a bit like a T X ninety T X eighty five , that 's a new one on me . |
| 29 | but er , which really was a waste of money it was , well it 's used a bit for tourism now |
| 30 | Rushton is unbothered by the separation unless presumably it helps to sell a cartoon or two and said waggishly : ‘ I view the whole affair with tremendous apathy . |