Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall . |
| 2 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 3 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 4 | The pain was intense , gripping her with its cruel talons , biting deep , but not so deep that it wiped out the sudden rush of anger she felt at his blind stubbornness . |
| 5 | oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long |
| 6 | It represents both the physical mihrab of the mosque and the spiritual archway to Paradise , and is often flanked by the " pillars of wisdom " ( pl. 31 ) . |
| 7 | Thus in Lothian about 250 children — the vast majority not infected with HIV — are likely to suffer the death of one or both parents due to disease related to HIV in the near future ; this figure is probably an underestimate as it represents only the tested population . |
| 8 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 9 | Friuli is a particularly rich site for bird trappers , since it sits aside the main north-south trans-European migratory route . |
| 10 | Losing the left engine is trickier since it drives both the single generator and the sole hydraulic pump . |
| 11 | The scream cam from quite a way away , but it penetrated easily the thick walls of the study . |
| 12 | The Rowley Mile was certainly no place for a scantily-clad 56-year-old , but needless to say in Piggott 's extraordinary case it made not the slightest difference . |
| 13 | Ahead was pure blackness ; I tried closing my eyes ; it made not the slightest difference . |
| 14 | In practical terms this meant that , say , creating the illusion of a glass of wine was relatively easy , since it involved merely the subtle shifting of light patterns . |
| 15 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 16 | She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace . |
| 17 | It illustrates clearly the divergent needs of liquidity and profitability that confront most banks . |
| 18 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 19 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 20 | ( It may be noted that erection can occur in younger — sometimes much younger — boys ; but it has not the Same significance . ) |
| 21 | A placid and leafy place indeed , except that it has also the local nickname of Enfer des palombes or ‘ The wood pigeons ’ hell' , because nowhere are these migrating birds more vigorously hunted on their autumn flight south than around Sare . |
| 22 | Some might accuse it of looking like a wedding cake , but I would suggest it has just the right amount of decoration . |
| 23 | Third largest in terms of oil , it has easily the largest gas resources in the Middle East being second only to the USSR on a world scale . |
| 24 | This project would not have achieved what it has without the professional generosity and sense of professional responsibility of the language and service disciplines . |
| 25 | Many pundits publicly opine that Windows would never have sold as many copies as it has without the massive publicity campaign that Microsoft put behind it . |
| 26 | Her manipulated images of masked Madonnas are made using a series of complex chemical processes ; she experiments technically , working and reworking the image until it has exactly the right feeling , tone or resonance . |
| 27 | Now Margarite , for instance , which is another kind of mica , quite similar to Muscovite except that it has twice the electrical charge across its planes of cleavage , has negligible strength and is very brittle . |
| 28 | In its revised form it has precisely the same aim : to provide a bridge between those who find themselves divided by the renewal movement . |
| 29 | Indeed , the party might well stay in power unless the Liberals win outright since it has much the better chance of putting together a coalition with other parties . |
| 30 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |