Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it seems evident the United States knew of the earlier treaty ( President Cleveland had issued an arbitral award on its interpretation ) , notice on the part of the third party was not mentioned as relevant by the Court . |
| 2 | Although it seems unlikely the residents will be allowed to keep the flat other accomodation may be found . |
| 3 | So far their almost daily antics have included a variety of canny offensives — successfully protecting against unsympathetic judges in rape trials , filling the White House garden with tennis balls covered in facts and figures of women 's oppression plus the odd rude rad fem slogan , and sending Jane Fonda 's husband , TV mogul Ted Turner , a ‘ We Are Watching ’ letter about his refusal to show pro-choice ads on his channel ( although it shows all the antiabortion propaganda ) . |
| 4 | But once it gets wet the weight of the water may well kill it . |
| 5 | This is a very efficient heat-transfer mechanism , and if it existed all the way into the region of the atmosphere which radiated to space then by today the Jovian interior would have lost almost all of its heat of formation , and any remnant could not be a significant source of internal energy . |
| 6 | If either kind of conjecture fails an observational or experimental test it will be falsified , while if it passes such a test we will say it is confirmed . |
| 7 | Try out each of your jokes on someone who will not be at the wedding to see if it sounds funny the way you tell it . |
| 8 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 9 | If it remains high the undergravel filter bed may not be large enough to cope . |
| 10 | He said it matter of factly , as if it happened all the time . |
| 11 | If it happened all the time , I would give up the game — I 'd quit . |
| 12 | Well i by definition it must be if it excludes all A classes for example . |
| 13 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 14 | unless it takes half an hour , well half an hour anyway |
| 15 | Opacity is a social creation , a device of resistance , achieved by the closing down of speech till it has all the appearances of a restricted code . |
| 16 | We have done one on erm , which , which gardening audit which is by our definition a continuous job because it happens all the time , but it follows procedures a hundred percent . |
| 17 | This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch . |
| 18 | It 's clean , quick and simple — taking the mess out of cutting flower stems because it retains all the cut stems in the glass decanter until you actually want to discard them . |
| 19 | OK they 're quite happy for their girls to be academic but daring to be more positive about being ordered outside that because it involves such a lot , having control over your own body , again you know , abortion raises its hairy head again . |
| 20 | Because it works all the time right |
| 21 | huh , huh some one went , do n't because it makes a noise , put it down , no , because it makes such a noise when you pick it up |
| 22 | He was also expanding his social thought in general considerations on how ‘ the word ‘ civilisation ’ comes to mean more and more : because it means all the things that we have gained , and want to keep and also all the good things that we have lost , and want to regain' . |
| 23 | ‘ We stayed in a tent for four days and got very wet because it rained all the time , ’ she says . |
| 24 | It 's promoted by the natural-born hucksters within Apple because it has all the earmarks of something trendy and fashionable . |
| 25 | Can I just turn over let's look at th the other side of that coin , right , because it has all the explanations er as to why agriculture , agricultural trade has declined in relative terms right . |
| 26 | The two-year row has been rumbling on since it became clear the Ffestiniog Company had taken an interest in the project . |
| 27 | THE South West Thames regional health authority requested the army be drafted in for ambulance work when it became clear the police could not cope , according to ambulance mangement . |
| 28 | G agrees the water looks good and says it 's a Class Two river , ’ except when it rains , when it gets all the run-off and also lots of foul water from the foul sewer overflow . |
| 29 | When it did this the family had been on the point of vesting the house in a charitable trust , which would have secured its future complete with contents . |
| 30 | A route she had been forced to follow , never quite closing the gap , though it narrowed all the time . |