Example sentences of "[det] [conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’ |
| 2 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 3 | IBM says the Workstation One family obviates the need for this because it combines many features in one product with a common graphical interface . |
| 4 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 5 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 6 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 7 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 8 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 9 | The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 11 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 12 | Between four and six episodes was Verity Lambert 's ideal length for a story , preferring the latter as it gave more opportunity for character development which , in her belief , audiences appreciated . |
| 13 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 14 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 15 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 16 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |