Example sentences of "it [num ord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that may not be as bad as it first sounds . |
| 2 | This is not as innocuous as it first sounds . |
| 3 | The concept of double tax is not always as drastic as it first sounds , particularly in the current economic climate where trading and capital losses are perhaps more common than profits and gains . |
| 4 | Try it first heard it 's really good . |
| 5 | Nova Bio-medical has updated its series of ISE based electrolyte analysers that it first launched in 1977 . |
| 6 | When it first launched the Prolinea last summer , Compaq had a hard time meeting demand for the box . |
| 7 | It first presents the relevant differences between hypertext systems and document preparation systems whose end product is paper . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for difficulty in diagnosing this condition when it first occurs is the apparent similarity of the symptoms that it produces to those associated with cystitis . |
| 9 | At the age when it first occurs in respect of strong contrary feelings , the young child needs his parents to understand that the greater the yearning , the greater the protest . |
| 10 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 11 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 12 | But it was strange when it first began . |
| 13 | Parapsychology is still trying to answer questions it first began to ask seriously a century ago . |
| 14 | I ca n't remember exactly when in the sequence it first began to dawn on me that an evolved resemblance to something like an insect was possible . |
| 15 | The Government has paid out £150m to former BC investors since the company 's collapse , and it first voiced its intention to recover as much of that sum as possible from BC 's professional advisers almost three years ago . |
| 16 | She says that the bird was sick when it first hatched , so she nursed it ; now it thinks she 's it 's mother . |
| 17 | But this arrangement means that the baby , when it first emerges from her genital opening has to make a marathon journey . |
| 18 | WHEN it first played , Tom Murphy 's ‘ The Gigli Concert ’ was almost unanimously decried as a piece of theatrical nonsense . |
| 19 | When it first come out , when it first come out I did n't mind it , but now I do n't like it . |
| 20 | When it first come out , when it first come out I did n't mind it , but now I do n't like it . |
| 21 | When it first flows from a wound it is runny but the more liquid part of it , turpentine , quickly evaporates leaving a sticky lump which seals the wound very effectively . |
| 22 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 23 | 15 ( 1 ) No action shall be brought by any person to recover any land after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him or , if it first accrued to some person through whom he claims , to that person . |
| 24 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 25 | It first met in 1893 under the leadership of T. C. M. Asser , a notable Dutch scholar , though it was the work of the Italian Mancini which first promoted the idea of such a meeting . |
| 26 | Especially if it 's if as when it first turns on or if the f the fan heater is not blowing very much . |
| 27 | It first attained some prominence during the Han dynasty when contacts with the west were intensified . |
| 28 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 29 | This fresh eyesore bears the ( in Scotland ) heraldically incorrect EIIR cipher , which caused so much aggravation when it first made its appearance in this country in the 1950s , and which , to the credit of the postal authorities , has since been omitted from all their vehicle livery , stationery , and other graphics . |
| 30 | ‘ Managed it first go . ’ |