Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 2 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 3 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree with my Hon. Friend that most of his suggestions will form part of the solution though I think that the House would be reluctant to depart from the view that it should rise at 2.30 on Fridays . |
| 4 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
| 5 | Its adaptability means that it can survive at high altitudes , in semi-arid areas , and in rocky areas as well as in forests . |
| 6 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 7 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |
| 8 | The venue for the meeting is the Royal Scottish Automobile Club , 11 Blythswood Square , Glasgow and it will start at 1830 hrs . |
| 9 | The United States , or to be more precise , US capital , was clearly gaining if it could borrow at 1½ per cent and invest in setting up or buying businesses in Europe , which would earn a much greater rate of profit . |
| 10 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 11 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 12 | Her voice was stretched very tight , as though it might snap at any moment and tumble her into tears . |
| 13 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 14 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 15 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 16 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 17 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 18 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 19 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 20 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 21 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |