Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It blatantly encourages young people to live on credit which is extremely undesirable , and brought about by their greed in getting people to buy their goods in every possible manner . |
2 | It effectively halted all plans to transport aid from the port , although the EPLF 's aid arm , the Eritrean Relief Association , asked for shipments to be resumed under its control . |
3 | On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible . |
4 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
5 | Above The vulnerable beauty of Killary harbour : ‘ It only takes one fool to drop a barrel of chemicals , ’ Peter Mantle says , ‘ and we 're all wiped out . ’ |
6 | There 's an old saying : ‘ It only takes one spark to start a fire . ’ |
7 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
8 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
9 | It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while . |
10 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
11 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
12 | It only needs one person to pass on an infection . |
13 | It only needs one horse to come to a stud or livery yard premises incubating the disease to start a large outbreak . |
14 | The seat can be used in both forward and rear-facing positions and it only needs one hand to fold it down . |
15 | That means , it only needs another 8% to gain overall control . |
16 | So , you know cos it just says all candidates receiving . |
17 | If it just makes ten people change their minds then it is worthwhile . |
18 | Well , it still does n't give me any money , but it just stops more money going out of my account . |
19 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
20 | Would it not make more sense to have a moratorium on pit closures in the interests of jobs , the balance of payments and European energy conservation ? |
21 | It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE . |
22 | It usually took four policemen to control her . |
23 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
24 | This division reinforces the concept of difference , but it further allows alienistic attitudes to gain a stranglehold , generating an ‘ us and them ’ approach to education . |
25 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
26 | The insurance fund has since doubled its reserves through a levy on its other members , but fears that it still has insufficient funds to cover its potential obligations . |
27 | So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell . |
28 | BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals . |
29 | It hardly takes much decoding to translate this into racial — indeed , not far from racist — terms . |
30 | As it exercised no rights it also owned 1,100,000 shares following the issue . |