Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It apparently blew apart when the Pentrite formed a fireball of 3,000C and 10 ft in diameter . |
| 2 | It only differs significantly when the change in energy , ( E1-E0 ) , is very small too . |
| 3 | My radiator is working , I think it just takes longer than the others to heat up . |
| 4 | Cultures can of course be changed but it usually takes longer than the organisation is prepared to wait . |
| 5 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 6 | The treatment of mental illness was advancing considerably at that time , and it probably contributed more than the legislative change to reducing both the use of compulsory procedures and the incidence of long stays in hospital . |
| 7 | It is hard to judge how effective MI6 is today because on the only recent occasion it was needed , to warn us of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 , it either failed completely or the Foreign Office deliberately presented MI6 's information to the government in a way that precluded it being taken seriously . |
| 8 | The informal structure is the structure as it actually operates rather that the way it ought to operate . |
| 9 | It certainly dried quicker but the oilskin got very hard and it was no time till it when you were walking . |