Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory . |
| 2 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 3 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 4 | So it says this scale shows both minutes and decimals and now use the scale to change these to minutes . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it promises better information to guide patients , guidelines for clinical practice and wiser decisions by policy-makers and purchasers of health care . |
| 6 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 7 | Thus it makes little sense to refer to ‘ immigrant ’ communities ; what we now have are minority black British communities , that have already made a very substantial contribution to the growth and prosperity of the British economy . |
| 8 | Usually it requires external funding to meet costs of staff and data processing . |
| 9 | Yesterday it emerged that EMAP had lifted its stake to 10.3 per cent , buying a further 200,000 shares . |
| 10 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 11 | More hearteningly it showed that teasing seemed to decrease as pupils got to know each other better as classmates , and despite the possibility of teasing most of the children interviewed welcomed the social breadth of the integrated setting . |
| 12 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 13 | Surely it makes more sense to have a lottery that would benefit the NHS . |
| 14 | East Anglia and the South-West continued to grow , as did the South-East until 1966 , then it experienced net loss owing to the massive haemorrhage from the capital . |
| 15 | First , it enabled clueless people to quote ‘ soul ’ , then it allowed intelligent people to get away with expressing fake emotions . |
| 16 | If a group anticipates no response at all , a blunt refusal , or even an attack upon its very integrity , then it makes good sense to keep its political head down below the level of activity . |
| 17 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 18 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 19 | Thus C is diagonal ; we assume it to be in standard canonical form , i.e. it has equal eigenvalues grouped together : this only requires the columns of X to be written in appropriate order . |
| 20 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |