Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It did not prevent infection ; it only checked the later multiplication of the parasite after infection had taken place . |
2 | It only raises a further set of questions . |
3 | Silvio Bedini has commented that ‘ although the invention of the candle timepiece has been traditionally ascribed to Alfred the Great of England , it obviously had an earlier history in the Orient ’ . |
4 | Space and depth are easily confused ; an animal 20 yards down may appear to be only a few feet away , and in following it down to get a closer look , a diver may suddenly find himself well past prescribed diving depths . |
5 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
6 | Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ? |
7 | The red colobus , however , needs fruit all the year round and takes it from a greater variety of dispersed tree species ; it thus requires a larger range which can support a correspondingly larger troop . |
8 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
9 | Although it still has a stronger name on the track , the 1992 road range builds on the strength of previous years . |
10 | It also met a further requirement which Freud demanded of a new theoretical formulation , namely , that it help to explain the sociological and historical development of humanity . |
11 | It also promotes a wider understanding among consumers of their legal relationship with the retailer . |
12 | Er perhaps it er perhaps it also prompts a greater fear of not being in control , a greater fear of of er not being in in some way in command of the situation because then somebody might do something to you . |
13 | In part this was a reflection of the great strain on small financial resources which building , maintaining and perhaps in time enlarging workhouses imposed , but it also reflected the greater difficulty in an effective and controlled administration of out-relief in the more anonymous and densely populated towns . |
14 | In education , although legislation promises increased power to parents and the opportunity for schools to opt out of local education authorities , it also promises a greater power for head teachers and , in the case of City Technology Colleges , a greater direct input from industry . |
15 | The new name is in part a combination of the names of the two predecessor institutes , but it also reflects a wider European and even a global interest in pursuing excellence in management . |
16 | It also has a looser cell structure , which makes penetration by moisturisers into the top layer easier . |
17 | The notion of segmentation is useful in identifying different categories among the unemployed , but it also has a wider usefulness in analysing cleavages in the labour market generally . |
18 | It also has a broader value as a means of acquainting the newer recruits with ‘ normal ’ ways of dealing with problems . |
19 | It also has a deeper problem : fiscal indiscipline , manifested in a budget deficit running at 7% of GDP . |
20 | The timing is quite nice really and deliberately so in that this will be the follow up to that in a way and it also follows the earlier conference , as you 've heard . |
21 | While the election of an authoritarian central government in 1979 resulted in cut-backs for local councils , it also provided a further stimulus for more community-oriented municipal projects . |
22 | Gesner moved to mask her again , and once more she darted round the screen , suddenly making great play with the peacock tail , holding it up to hide the lower part of her face , managing to pretend never to see the front of Luxembourg 's face , and never to let him see her . |
23 | One may look not only at the rest of the section in which the word appears but at the statute as a whole , and even at earlier legislation dealing with the same subject-matter — for it is assumed that when Parliament passed an Act , it probably had the earlier legislation in mind , and probably intended to use words with the same meaning as before . |
24 | THE TIMES described a street view by de St. Croix as " resembling an exquisite mezzotint " — but it far surpasses the earlier process . |
25 | Trading abroad as an importer or exporter can be highly profitable , but it often involves a greater degree of risk than operating in the home market . |
26 | In simpler creatures , granules of it are distributed evenly throughout the egg ; in a frog 's egg , it is concentrated at one end ; and in a bird 's egg it initially fills the greater part of the shell . |
27 | The United States could , and did , also claim that it actually required a greater surplus than this so that it could begin to chip away at the huge ‘ overhang ’ of dollar liabilities with a view to restoring convertibility of the dollar to the SDR ( special drawing rights ) once confidence had been restored . |
28 | The android continues to fulfil all its courtly duties and even becomes a trusted confidant of the Emperor , and the princess discovers it actually makes a better lover than the original . |
29 | ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ? |
30 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |