Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 2 | Women 's history has yet to take root within our universities and so must wait even longer before it makes an impact in the classroom despite the availability of many histories of women produced in the last decade or so , which could provide starting points for a better balanced approach to history . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 4 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 5 | If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes . |
| 6 | I presume we can see down there but it do n't |
| 7 | It is likely that a structure which was appropriate to an organisation at a particular stage in its development will become less so as it matures . |
| 8 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better set off now before it gets dark , ’ he told the driver . |
| 10 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 11 | A rewarded training trial consisted of transporting a rat in a slowly rotating opaque box from an adjoining room and putting it into the arena at and facing the centre of the N , S , E or W side-wall ( shown as an unfilled circle ) from which it could move around freely until it found the F+ feeder ; a non-rewarded trial lasted 60s and was conducted without either landmarks or feeders . |
| 12 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 13 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 14 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 15 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 16 | Whether it should happen as often as it does is open to doubt . |
| 17 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 18 | It need take no longer than it takes you to interview a pupil and make a job offer . |
| 19 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 20 | You had better go home now before it gets too late . |
| 21 | No matter how potentially profitable a business is , it may go under simply because it fails to meet its day to day cash commitments . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd go again today if it did n't mean waiting in line till a month from Monday , ’ said USA Today reviewer Mike Clark . |
| 23 | Devise your method and then tell your story , which inevitably will make the mystery seem rather better than it has to be , because all locked rooms are variants of a small number of simple devices , most of which are ways of making such rooms unlocked all along . |
| 24 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 25 | Leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it slows down or stops suddenly , the safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance shown below , but on the open road in good conditions leave a gap of one metre for each mile an hour of your speed or a two second time gap may be enough , they will also leave space for an overtaking vehicle pulling or wet or icy or the gap should be at least double that , drop back if you know that taking vehicle closing gap in front of you make way for ambulance , fire engines , police or van emergency vehicles when their blue lamps are flashing or their bells , two tone cones or sirens or . |
| 26 | We have a situation where the landowner is going to have to sell land relatively cheaply , in order that the land then , the land prices do not reflect too horrendously when it comes through to the price that has to be paid by the person who 's going to occupy the property ; either in terms of a letting figure or of something which is going to be an , effectively a mortgage figure . |
| 27 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |
| 28 | You should always seek veterinary advice without delay in this case because the condition of a young puppy can deteriorate very rapidly if it becomes dehydrated . |