Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister 's speech was eagerly anticipated by the educational and wider community and it duly received the full media treatment . |
| 2 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 3 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 4 | This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments . |
| 5 | It rather resembles a Victorian village school in outline ( or perhaps Victorian village schools resemble it ! ) , with its steep roof and dormer windows looking like belfries ; you fully expect to see a vicarage and church in the same style hovering nearby . |
| 6 | Gold paint never gives a satisfactory finish , as it rarely matches the beautiful patina of old gilding , which in turn helps to distinguish the genuine article from a reproduction . |
| 7 | It rarely pushed a non-paying customer into bankruptcy . |
| 8 | MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now . |
| 9 | Although in terms of outgoings this type of mortgage is the most expensive , it arguably provides the best value since , having repaid the mortgage , the balance of the pension fund ( 75% ) is applied to purchasing an annuity giving a guaranteed income for life . |
| 10 | In early 1944 , Stilwell 's army began to advance from India , building a road as it slowly approached the Japanese base at Myitkyina , 240 kilometres distant . |
| 11 | it mostly concerns the small details and seemingly unimportant events which make up my experience as a woman and a mother . |
| 12 | Are there any circumstances in which the Home Secretary would feel it right to take the honourable course and resign from the office which he discharges so inadequately ? |
| 13 | We felt it right to accept the inevitable costs at this stage in the economic cycle and not to cut back on long-term plans that will strengthen the economy . |
| 14 | Public ownership of development land puts control of our scarcest resource in the hands of the community , and enables it thereby to take an overall perspective . |
| 15 | In addition it is clear that the route by which information becomes public knowledge may be crucial to determining whether it thereby loses the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 16 | But once one team has started to dominate the gene pool of a species it thereby has an automatic advantage . |
| 17 | It thereby created the largest telecommunications company in Europe at the time . |
| 18 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 19 | This questionnaire , the driver behaviour questionnaire ( DBQ ) , was designed particularly to look at driving errors from the type of perspective Reason has adopted elsewhere ( e.g. Reason , 1984 , 1990 ; Reason & Mycielska , 1982 ) , however , it additionally provides an important insight into the frequency of various types of memory failure in driving . |
| 20 | Sodomy was associated with witches , demons , werewolves , basilisks , foreigners , and ( of course ) papists ; and it apparently signified a wide range of practices including prostitution , under-age sex , coitus interruptus , and female transvestism . |
| 21 | When IBM began discounting in earnest , it apparently achieved the immediate goals it had sought . |
| 22 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 23 | Not only does it apparently have the oldest version of the entry for 1020 ( see above ) , but under 1018 it has the death of an Abingdon abbot which is not in C. Other material now in D and E was probably only added after the Abingdon chronicle reached Canterbury . |
| 24 | This poses a problem because it apparently falsifies the plausible theory that animals , like humans , see with their eyes . |
| 25 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 26 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 28 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 29 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 30 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |