Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
2 | And so it deposits the extra calories it does not need as fat . |
3 | Indeed , the lower the blood pressure the better , because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks . |
4 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
5 | Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses . |
6 | Now it used the United Nations as its cover and it 's fortunate in that the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council and so was not able to veto the resolution which authorized American intervention . |
7 | To work effectively it needs the right partners and considerable organisation and communication . |
8 | Yeah but then it split the bloody pairs all in bits . |
9 | Yet it encapsulates the central themes of the Christian faith . |
10 | Unfortunately , it does not succeed on limey soils but otherwise it needs the same conditions as the brunneras . |