Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 2 | Put it where it gets as much sun as possible . |
| 3 | It is grown in tiny quantities in the northern Rhone at Condrieu and Chateau-Grillet , where it makes utterly delicious whites at £15 — £30 a bottle . |
| 4 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 5 | The structure of own resources implied by " once and for all " does appear to resolve the future flexibility of revenue to meet changing circumstances , although it opens up considerable potential for dispute , as it implies part of the revenue from income tax could be designated as " own resources " . |
| 6 | A popular choice is the corner bath , because although it takes up more floor area than a rectangular bath and runs along two walls , it actually requires less wall length ( typically 1300 or 1400mm ) , allowing more flexibility when planning a moderately sized , squarish bathroom . |
| 7 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 8 | The decree also declared that the union and republican governments should investigate ways of transforming inefficient collective and state farms into private or co-operative farms , although it ruled out compulsory dissolution . |
| 9 | Price £193.88 including VAT ( although it adds helpfully that VAT is fully reclaimable by health authorities ) . |
| 10 | Although it gives only basic descriptions of our services , there is more information on the Royal Mail Guide and Royal Mail International Guide which you can consult at post office counters . |
| 11 | An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 . |
| 12 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 13 | However , it is possible that the ratio of hidden to known use provided by Method 4 is nearer to the true ratio than the others because , although it involved less accurate determination of identity codes , the larger numbers of nominees involved may dilute the effect of extreme cases . |
| 14 | This finding may be interpreted as supporting the view expressed above that the inner-city vernacular , although it shows more complex patterns , is more amenable to description in terms of linguistic rules than outer-city speech . |
| 15 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 16 | When they 're placed on floppies we can use a program ( called a ‘ packer ’ or ‘ zipper ’ ) to encode this information so it takes up less space . |
| 17 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |
| 18 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 19 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 20 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 21 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 22 | If it happens again next year with new plants , spray them with something like Benlate + Activex 2 . |
| 23 | Such negative marketing does more harm than good to our credibility , and if it happens again next year , we will not attend . |
| 24 | Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs . |
| 25 | Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage . |
| 26 | The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion . |
| 27 | If it goes ahead Double Gloucester might never be the same again . |
| 28 | But if it goes down that route , it will face some criticism from its members . |
| 29 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 30 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |