Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 2 | Put it where it gets as much sun as possible . |
| 3 | It is grown in tiny quantities in the northern Rhone at Condrieu and Chateau-Grillet , where it makes utterly delicious whites at £15 — £30 a bottle . |
| 4 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 5 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
| 6 | The image sometimes shows incomplete leaves , base and tip present with a segment missing , or it picks up isolated points which do not correspond to subject material . |
| 7 | The structure of own resources implied by " once and for all " does appear to resolve the future flexibility of revenue to meet changing circumstances , although it opens up considerable potential for dispute , as it implies part of the revenue from income tax could be designated as " own resources " . |
| 8 | A popular choice is the corner bath , because although it takes up more floor area than a rectangular bath and runs along two walls , it actually requires less wall length ( typically 1300 or 1400mm ) , allowing more flexibility when planning a moderately sized , squarish bathroom . |
| 9 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 10 | The decree also declared that the union and republican governments should investigate ways of transforming inefficient collective and state farms into private or co-operative farms , although it ruled out compulsory dissolution . |
| 11 | Price £193.88 including VAT ( although it adds helpfully that VAT is fully reclaimable by health authorities ) . |
| 12 | Although it gives only basic descriptions of our services , there is more information on the Royal Mail Guide and Royal Mail International Guide which you can consult at post office counters . |
| 13 | An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 . |
| 14 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 15 | However , it is possible that the ratio of hidden to known use provided by Method 4 is nearer to the true ratio than the others because , although it involved less accurate determination of identity codes , the larger numbers of nominees involved may dilute the effect of extreme cases . |
| 16 | This finding may be interpreted as supporting the view expressed above that the inner-city vernacular , although it shows more complex patterns , is more amenable to description in terms of linguistic rules than outer-city speech . |
| 17 | In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc , the squid , revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons , which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into . |
| 18 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 19 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 20 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 21 | The emperor attended the première , and seemed to approve , despite his observation that it had too many notes ( ‘ Just as many as are necessary , your majesty , ’ Mozart is said to have replied ) . |
| 22 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 23 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |
| 24 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 25 | There is also ‘ value-rational ’ ( wertrational ) action , where the goal is so dominant for the actor that it drives out all calculation or concern for consequences . |
| 26 | Labour leaders in the USA claimed that NAFTA would destroy jobs and that it offered little concrete provision for retraining . |
| 27 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 28 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 29 | Moreover , the global index of either victimization or recorded offences can be misleading , in that it conceals quite large variations in the trends for specific offences . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |