Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drain the steak , reserving the marinade and thread a skewer through one strip of steak at 2.5cm/1in intervals , pushing the strip together so it forms concertina-like folds . |
| 2 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 3 | As the reader will appreciate , a country can fund a continuing current account deficit only if it has limitless reserves of gold and foreign exchange or unlimited foreign borrowing power . |
| 4 | The shade has a double skin so that it remains cool and the light is well diffused , thus reducing glare and shadows . |
| 5 | When it 's a mizza , of course especially if it creates 25 new jobs . |
| 6 | We do n't pressurise the horse so that it gets more and more upset : remember , it will remember ! |
| 7 | Hence the procedure for converting an equation so that it becomes valid in accelerating frames can be expressed pithily as : ‘ replace commas by semicolons ’ . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the organisation will always retain the right to terminate the engagement prematurely if it considers this may be necessary . |
| 9 | The bloody Hun-lovers were trying to blow this club up because it represents all that is best about England . ’ |
| 10 | This lodges in the mind precisely because it floats free of the mythic grist . |
| 11 | The replacement ratio measures income in and out of work so that it measures net-of-tax earnings minus work-related expenses as compared with out-of-work transfer payments contingent upon the status of being unemployed . |
| 12 | Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared . |
| 13 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
| 14 | You might take an unexpected turning just because it feels right , and discover a lovely place to eat . |
| 15 | In addition their captain Brian Smith persisted with his wayward goal-kicking long after it became apparent that he should pass the task to someone else . |
| 16 | There is no comparison between the firm , delicate flesh of such a natural specimen and the fatty flab of the farmed fish made pink by E160g , washed in Nuvan to minimize lice infestation and packed into a cage so that it gets little or no natural conditioning . |
| 17 | In May , 1991 , the Digital Information Group 's Software Industry Bulletin reported that SelecTronics expects to report a ‘ significant loss ’ for its financial year ended 31 March and that it is restructuring its business so that it manufactures handheld devices only when it has firm orders from its distribution channels . |
| 18 | The court office can not refuse to issue proceedings by the process requested by the plaintiff/applicant merely because it considers such process to be inappropriate ( Baker v Thatcher ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 863 ) . |
| 19 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 20 | Involved in the idea is the injecting of emotion into the relationship so that it has some substance and the subject and object are linked by feeling . |
| 21 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 22 | I wound it around my head so that it covered all but my eyes . |
| 23 | The UK government will issue health warnings about low-level ozone pollution only when it reaches 200 parts per billion — more than twice the safety threshold of 75 parts per billion set by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |
| 24 | Pus the white foam washer on to the waste outlet so that it sits flush against the underside of the outlet rim |
| 25 | Hot air is circulated at a high velocity in the cooking cabinet where it instantly envelopes the food and seals the meat so that it remains juicy . |
| 26 | He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt . |
| 27 | Have to take the door off the hinges to get your head out if it gets any bigger . |
| 28 | You see , he was my client , sure , but he was my friend too and it seems right , to me , his wife should be the one to tidy away after him . ’ |
| 29 | I 've got Brylcreem on and it looks black . |
| 30 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |