Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 2 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 3 | Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia . |
| 4 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 6 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 7 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 8 | This period — the most glittering episode of the golden years — illustrates the fundamental dynamics of the boom particularly well because it shows them in operation in top gear and with enormous effect . |
| 9 | He found first gear and eased the great machine slowly forward until it hit the utility room door , closed it , and pinned it fast . |
| 10 | To quote that part of this Act so far as it affects a member of a local authority may be useful . |
| 11 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 12 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 13 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 14 | What happened next is something I shall never forget , and I have thought of that moment incessantly ever since it happened . |
| 15 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 16 | because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy . |
| 17 | The sunflower does not learn by experience to turn its head more effectively as it matures , or not to turn at all if it is repeatedly electrically shocked every time it does so . |
| 18 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 19 | To counter this , water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba . |
| 20 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 21 | it is a good theory so far as it goes . |
| 22 | Always leave the collar on under these circumstances so that you can restrain the dog more easily if it attempts to run off . |
| 23 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 24 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 25 | Dieting without exercise also forces the body to manage on less oxygen , and it reduces its oxygen intake even further when it has to take energy , not from food , but from the body itself . |
| 26 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 27 | Like the reading of Samuel Smiles or the practice of other forms of ‘ self-help ’ and ‘ self-improvement ’ it replaced bourgeois success more often than it prepared for it . |
| 28 | Newcastle 's death in 1768 merely removed the most accomplished practitioner of the system ; the word ‘ party ’ only had political significance as far as it related to the following of great magnates . |
| 29 | It is actually my experience that even the most difficult and complex modern poem , especially if you have read it beforehand , comes to life quite magically when it 's read alone . |
| 30 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |