Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 2 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 3 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 4 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 5 | The governing body insists leagues will start next September , but it wants to delay as long as possible any decision about what to do with the Merit teams . |
| 6 | True , there is a stream Kingsdale Beck , draining the slopes of Whernside at the head of the valley and accompanying the road down but for much of its early journey it prefers to travel under rather than on its limestone bed and remains out of sight and hearing . |
| 7 | The fact was put neatly by Barbara Betts , later Barbara Castle , when reporting upon the Labour Party Conference in October 1931 : ‘ It was almost as if it feared to probe too deeply lest it should be disillusioned as to the integrity of Uncle Arthur [ Henderson ] . ’ |
| 8 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 9 | She sipped the pink gin , and for a few delirious seconds Peter wondered if it had turned out well because she had met him instead . |
| 10 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 11 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 12 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 13 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 14 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 15 | you receive , last year , income was twelve thousand five hundred and sixty one pounds , er next year it does go up slightly because we did n't receive any tennis club fees last year . |
| 16 | Cakes filled with buttercream will keep if kept in an airtight container for up to two weeks , but it does go off quicker than other types of icing . |
| 17 | erm you know even if it does come in late so we can say oh yes I remember this person sort of thing , you know |
| 18 | Well it is it 's it 's planned pretty well as you know we we always take the summer off we never work during the summer because we do our recording and we make our video and then we 're ready for the road and the video 's released and there 's promotion put into it so er if we go to Australia which we 'll go on our next May and June you know it 's a good time out there for selling product as well so we will have an album released before we get out there and and everything will be planned out . |
| 19 | Maybe it 's gone very well because neither of us is — well , committed to anyone else . |
| 20 | This year it 's extended far further than usual , and you 've got hundreds of thousands of square miles of water which is much warmer than usual in the Pacific . |
| 21 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 22 | It 's changed really now because of the fact we pulled |
| 23 | But once employed as capital that money stays there , it 's stuck and hopefully it earns money but it 's stuck there forever until the sale of that asset is is a achieved . |