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

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1 Within the union , therefore , Scargill 's call was for solidarity , for those with more readily-guaranteed futures to support other miners ' prospects which were less bright , especially so if the NCB could capitalize on splits and other weaknesses within the NUM , thereby enabling it to isolate vulnerable areas .
2 Project experiments have shown that any sound can be distracting as long has it has two characteristics : that is varies on content and that the stream of sound can be broken up ( or segmented ) into separate entities .
3 Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country .
4 ‘ I only know it has four wheels and it goes , ’ she said , laughing .
5 In so doing it multiplies many times over and produces alcohol .
6 In so doing it breaches any totality , including History :
7 In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content .
8 As we stressed in Chapter 9 , the Rover Group may produce a large share of the motor cars manufactured in the UK but this does not necessarily mean it has significant market power .
9 Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker .
10 I only did it to impress that lot .
11 How long did it take one man .
12 I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that
13 And the first one is , Is the policy required and if so does it give sufficient guidance .
14 Ice is the greatest worry that a pool owner has during winter months , for not only does it trap noxious gases which are likely to suffocate the fish , but it also exerts tremendous pressure upon the pool structure and can crack the most expertly laid concrete .
15 Not only does it involve large sums of money but , for the vast majority of us , most , if not all , of the money has to be borrowed .
16 So prices have tend to have fallen on world markets for agricultural goods because of support right , and they 've also become a lot more volatile and that , and that is the er the source of the international frustration with erm the common agricultural policy and this is why we 've got agriculture er being introduced into the G A T T. Not only does it impose huge costs on domestic tax payers and consumers , it also in incurs erm a large cost on third country exporters , right now if you think that most of those countries may well be developing countries and agricultural output is their only source of foreign exchange erm then er the policies of the rich countries in the West are erm a actively erm hindering the development prospects of developing countries alright and that may not be the desired intention .
17 Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ .
18 Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence .
19 I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs .
20 It 's a dog does not entail It has four legs
21 He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’
22 At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions .
23 The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay .
24 We 're not doing it to compensate Social Services
25 You did not mean it to happen this time .
26 Natural selection does favour those animals that are most successful in the competition for resources , but that does not mean it favours unrestrained aggression .
27 The Vienna Convention defines a treaty as an agreement ‘ governed by international law ’ and does not require it to allocate legal rights and obligations .
28 During all the years that the Scottish Select Committee existed , I do not recall it undertaking that task .
29 They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it .
30 Those whose attitudes are negative and who consequently will have a powerful filter , even when they understand a message in the second language , will not allow it to reach that part of the brain responsible for language acquisition .
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