Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It swiftly became apparent that congress would not go along with such an increase , especially after the big Democratic gains in the 1974 elections . |
| 2 | He remained with Champneys until 1880 , but it soon became clear that architecture would never be his chief preoccupation . |
| 3 | It soon became clear that breach of confidence was actionable per se , and did not require a contractual relationship between the parties . |
| 4 | Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ? |
| 5 | In 590 it further became apparent that bishop Egidius of Rheims had been involved in Rauching 's plot , and he was deposed from his see . |
| 6 | For heavy goods , especially of timber and stone , it still seems likely that water transport , by river and sea and a little by canal , was cheaper and more expeditious than long-distance travel by road — and that there was sense as well as sentiment , for example , in the devotion the Norman builders showed in England for their native stone from Caen . |
| 7 | Victory gave Charlton their 11th away League win , but it hardly looked likely when captain Gary Bennett headed Sunderland ahead after 56 minutes . |
| 8 | It also seems likely that unemployment and other social problems contributed further to the view that Labour offered the only alternative to the failures of capitalism — no matter how illusory that viewpoint may have been . |
| 9 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 10 | The virtue of this control/constraint approach is that while laying due emphasis on the significance of management power , it also makes clear that management control is not an absolute . |
| 11 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 12 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 13 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 14 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |
| 15 | The government did not choose the firms ; it simply changed legal and tax rules to help mergers . |
| 16 | It therefore seemed possible that referral rates would be higher among fundholders than among control practices in the year before the introduction of budgets , but that fundholders ' NHS referral rates would then fall . |
| 17 | It therefore seems conceivable that susceptibility to both type I and type II diabetes is determined during gestation or infancy in response to nutrition , and research should respond with a new focus on early events . |