Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , happens so quickly that it appears that the letters are displayed as a direct mechanical response to the keypress . |
| 2 | This makes the hollow stem go rubbery for a few seconds , but then it just stiffens up straight as it cools . |
| 3 | The evolution of oxygen in this process occurs as rapidly as it does in photosynthesis . |
| 4 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 5 | First the spiral opens out as it does in a shell , but then closes up again as it approaches the other pole of the cell . |
| 6 | We wo n't get the coach parties if the show ends as late as it does now . ’ |
| 7 | Although I am sure that the Publishers Association is sincere in wishing to manage the book club rules as tightly as it manages the Net Book Agreement , we are all aware of the increasing confidence of the book clubs , who are bound to accelerate their invasion into the territory that booksellers have regarded as theirs . |
| 8 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 9 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
| 10 | If it does not — and Mrs. Murray states quite clearly that it does not — then I would regard the Home Secretary as having acted contrary to his policy . |
| 11 | The dictionary states quite clearly that it comes from the United States . |
| 12 | In quite outrageously comic and very skilful sequences of movement , mime and clowning , they attempt courtship , and in a shower of champagne that misses more often than it hits the glass , approach the great unknown of the wedding night . |
| 13 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 14 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 15 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 16 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 17 | A local authority that spends less on special educational needs does so either because it has less incidence of such needs or because it is in dereliction of its duties to pupils with those needs . |
| 18 | In soft cliffs erosion is very active at first and becomes progressively slower until it halts , unless the debris from the cliff is moved away so that it does not interfere with wave action at the foot of the cliff . |
| 19 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 20 | He suggests not only that it begins with Marx but that he himself forms part of this mutation , which means that , according to his argument , in order to dismiss him you would have to dismiss Marx also . |
| 21 | The rain stops as suddenly as it came . |
| 22 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 23 | The method works very well but it does not provide the speed possessed by the free-swimming sharks . |