Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [vb infin] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's too complicated to explain er why this happens , but such simulations have been done , notably about Parker Baker and Smith who did the famous one and it does suggest that if you start off , even if you start of with similar size , that is sex cells , they will be driven by a competition for reproductive success to the extremes and you 'll end up with two extreme types , a large type proto-ovum and a tiny type , a proto- sperm . |
| 2 | HAVE noticed that any old grandad who can prop himself up on a spade can dig better than I can , and it does seem that although women have virtues not given to men , men also have their gifts . |
| 3 | It would be rash to conclude too much from this , but it does indicate that while the index has been compiled carefully and thoroughly , the cross-referencing could be slightly inproved . |
| 4 | But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern . |
| 5 | But it does seem that if you keep re-delivering the right kind of goods , there 'll come a time when the customers start queuing all over again . |
| 6 | But it does look as though the whole business is irretrievably in their hands now — an impression strengthened by the deafening silence in response to the honest and serious disclosures I made . |
| 7 | It was all a little hyperbolic , but it did mean that when , four months later , the issue shifted from the soft abstractions of industrial good will in general to the hard reality of reducing wages in the coal industry , the Prime Minister started with a store of self-confidence . |
| 8 | The best moment on ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was , strangely , the most obvious statement Morrissey ever made in a lyric , ‘ Paint A Vulgar Picture ’ offered no new insights to the tacky edge of such a subject , but it did sound as though he had finally decided to cast away all the ambiguity of his writing and head , simplistically , for the jugular . |