Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't get up all day till it got dark and Mr Jackson came . |
| 2 | When the poorer south-side wards started to report , it became clear that Mr Savage was back . |
| 3 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 4 | As soon as it became clear that Miss Trunchbull had completely disappeared from the scene , the excellent Mr Trilby was appointed Head Teacher in her place . |
| 5 | Fifteen years later , it became obvious that Lord Sagramoso was seducing the hereditary lords of neighbouring star systems — mainly agricultural ones — to turn preachers into compost and swear fealty to him rather than to a deity thirty thousand light years distant . |
| 6 | We had a good view of Sao Paulo as we flew over it — so massive , it looks bigger than New York , and you can almost see it grow as you watch it , because all round the outskirts of the city are straggling half-finished ‘ shanty town housing estates ’ , with dirt roads and little hut-like dwellings , as it seemed from the air . |
| 7 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 8 | Moreover , it seemed ironic that South Africa 's reimmersion in the Test arena should be marred by such a local show of disaffection , a boycott naive and myopic in concept and of no relevance to racial reform in the Republic , which may yet have repercussions in the Caribbean game as a whole . |
| 9 | It seemed important that George Aspinall should not know . |
| 10 | While Farr-Jones will be wearing the gold Australian jumper this year , it seems certain that flanker Simon Poidevin will be missing . |
| 11 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 12 | It seems clear that Rider Haggard intended Ayesha in part to embody a moral distinction between physical and ideal love . |
| 13 | There was no need in O'Reilly v. Mackman to choose between these approaches , but it seems clear that Lord Diplock considered himself to be stating a general rule with exceptions . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , it seems clear that Mr Wood — whose career has been in corporate treasury departments — decided quite early on that he was not in the running for the job of chief executive , given Barclays ' desire that someone with all-round banking experience fill the post . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , it seems likely that Mr Waldegrave may be preparing a basis on which to reject the EC call for a ban . |
| 16 | It seems likely that Fahreddin Acemi was indeed muderris at Murad II 's Darulhadis , but the evidence on this point , which comes from the biography of Molla Ala " al-Din Ali al- " Arabi ( Molla Arab ) , is not altogether firm since Taskopruzade and Mecdi appear to be at odds on the matter . |
| 17 | If the government does lose the showdown , it seems likely that John Major will call a confidence vote 24 hours later . |
| 18 | Certainly many of the ordinary rank and file , like William Joyce in the early years , were of this nature ; and it seems significant that J. Havelock Wilson of the Seaman 's Union , a stalwart of working-class anti-socialist movements , spoke at an anti-Bolshevik meeting stewarded by 600 fascists at the Royal Albert Hall in 1926 ii |
| 19 | It bodes ill that Mr Major , two-and-a-half years into office , still feels on trial . |
| 20 | But this time it went wrong and Ms Kennedy , who plays a republican activist in the drama , had to receive treatment for an eye injury . |