Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The only thing is that this text gives no reason to suppose that it also applied in cognitio . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Perhaps ; but I 've never seen any particular virtue in consistency , and it certainly made for variety . |
| 8 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it immediately came under fire … from an angry councillor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |
| 17 | But it quickly bloomed into passion . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge . |
| 20 | The American Express Company was founded in 1850 , primarily to carry mail , gold bullion and passengers , but it gradually moved into shipping and in the 1890s set up offices in Europe 's major ports handling freight bound for the United States . |
| 21 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the fireworks must have seeded the thick clouds overhead because it absolutely poured with rain , and we got soaked . |
| 23 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 24 | A transcript of the tape-recording made in the restaurant was a central plank in the prosecution case when it finally came to court eighteen months later . |
| 25 | Then , when it finally dropped from exhaustion , it was killed . |
| 26 | The sun was settling into the tree-tops up the line when it finally curved into view . |
| 27 | It was insured by the charity organiser Ruth Hilali , and when it apparently disappeared in transit , more than £100,000 was paid by insurers into charity funds at the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |