Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fact that it eventually arrived in Germany was largely thanks to two German MPs , Ursula Seiler-Albring and Ina Albowitz . |
| 2 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 3 | The only thing is that this text gives no reason to suppose that it also applied in cognitio . |
| 4 | Now , she could see that it even looked like Clive . |
| 5 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 6 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 7 | The result from the program 's point of view is that it receives an odd collection of keypresses , probably a set that it never received during testing . |
| 8 | However , Pakistan was accepted into the Non-Aligned Movement once it formally withdrew from CENTO in 1979 . |
| 9 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 10 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 11 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 12 | At the end of the luncheon Major Ronald Ferguson auctioned the brooch designed by Clive Ranger and generously donated , and it finally went to Mr Galen Weston 's bid of £8,500 . |
| 13 | By the late 1960s Pakistan had ceased to participate in military exercises within the framework of SEATO and CENTO and it eventually withdrew from SEATO . |
| 14 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |
| 15 | Perhaps ; but I 've never seen any particular virtue in consistency , and it certainly made for variety . |
| 16 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 17 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 18 | There was a little parapet going round the arcade and it suddenly occurred to Owen that it might provide a vantage-point from which he could more pleasantly monitor proceedings . |
| 19 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |
| 20 | But the Red Army was larger than Western forces in Europe , war could break out ‘ by accident ’ ( through the failure to manage a diplomatic crisis properly ) and a US guarantee — even if it only existed on paper — could provide a major psychological boost to West European morale . |
| 21 | At Beltsville in Maryland , a pig injected with human growth hormone grew up to display substantially less backfat ( potentially valuable from the AgriBusiness point of view ) , but it also suffered from arthritis , poor vision , lack of leg coordination and ‘ susceptibility to stress ’ . |
| 22 | Labourism influenced working-class intervention in the formal political sphere through the Labour Party , but it also reached into trade unionism and determined attitudes to alternative bodies of political thought such as toryism , Marxism and fascism . |
| 23 | Vermstroy operated from Ipswich but it also operated from Nunes . |
| 24 | The legislation of 1861 was undoubtedly flawed , but it also set in train changes which affected most levels of Russian government and all levels of Russian society . |
| 25 | But it immediately came under fire … from an angry councillor . |
| 26 | A constitutional convention was elected in May 1975 to try to agree on a new form of government but it too ended in failure , leaving the province under direct rule from Whitehall , through the Northern Ireland Office and the continued presence of the army . |
| 27 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 28 | But it quickly bloomed into passion . |
| 29 | As every young man foresaw , his courtship was protracted , but it sometimes seemed to Paul as if the time would never come when she would let him take her hand , let alone kiss her . |
| 30 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |