Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium . |
| 2 | Its domination resides in the fact that it keeps the economy going , without which the whole society would collapse , and in the fact that it thereby imposes certain restrictions on other practices . |
| 3 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |
| 4 | It eventually absorbed these activities into its own growth and development . |
| 5 | Through the book Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine by John Speed [ q.v. ] ( 1612 ) it eventually provided several generations of British and foreign map-users with their cartographic image of central and southern Ireland . |
| 6 | The trouble is it only does ten miles to the gallon . ’ |
| 7 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 8 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 9 | The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year . |
| 10 | ‘ But it only has 4 grams of fat , ’ came the smart reply . |
| 11 | The process produces no new proteins , it only causes physical changes to existing structures . |
| 12 | To take advantage of that large amount of fuel , we have to develop what are there is the fast reactors , and this is Britain 's fast reactor a fast reactor erm uses energy erm about sixty time uses uranium about sixty times more efficiently than the present type of reactors not sixty percent but sixty times so it obviously has tremendous implications for uranium resources . |
| 13 | Two old Rolling Thunderites are getting it together to house mini ramps of varying sizes inside a place off Old Street . |
| 14 | This principle does not limit the processing of data , it merely requires such activities to be registered , in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1984 . |
| 15 | At best , it merely clarifies some aspects of the processes by which parties with different , even mutually conflicting , objectives manage to reach agreement both can live with . |
| 16 | ( There it merely provides musical interludes between acts , a pattern foreshadowed in some odes of Euripides . ) |
| 17 | It already pays all claims of more than £220 in Northern Ireland — at a cost of £680m over the past 23 years . |
| 18 | In the Far East it already has two partners in the shape of Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd and presently state-owned Singapore Telecom , and the trio say they will spend over $100m over the next few years on WorldPartners . |
| 19 | It already has some reports from Ipswich as that bane of gardening life , the cabbage white butterfly , appears to be adapting to the traditional winter in the region . |
| 20 | The move will clearly further raise the auction house 's presence in Singapore , where it already holds twice-yearly exhibitions of Chinese paintings , ceramics , jade carvings and jewellery . |
| 21 | It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate . |
| 22 | It is also ideal if currency is required , since it normally lists new titles in the same month as publication . |
| 23 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 24 | Although Hoyle 's model can be criticised on the grounds that the ideal types do not exist , or that many teachers exhibit characteristics from both sides of the model , it nevertheless exposes crucial aspects of the relationships between teachers and the organisations in which they work when used in the heuristic format for which it was intended . |
| 25 | Since a good deal of writing is context-establishing in this way , it generally reveals higher levels of lexical density than does , for example , spoken conversation , which tends to be context-identifying , concerned with giving the sharper indexical focus to shared lexical information which form-words can provide . |
| 26 | It usually sells 10 barrels of beer a weekend . |
| 27 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 28 | It usually takes several days for the pain to subside , although it can linger for weeks . |
| 29 | It usually has more nails on its feet than the African species . |
| 30 | It usually investigates working-class subjects by testing them against norms obtained from middle-class samples . |