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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It rarely pushed a non-paying customer into bankruptcy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | it mostly concerns the small details and seemingly unimportant events which make up my experience as a woman and a mother . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But once one team has started to dominate the gene pool of a species it thereby has an automatic advantage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When IBM began discounting in earnest , it apparently achieved the immediate goals it had sought . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This poses a problem because it apparently falsifies the plausible theory that animals , like humans , see with their eyes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 23 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 26 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 27 | Where the promise is the ‘ best evidence ’ it only expresses an implied promise ( implied in the request ) . |
| 28 | For the Balinese the ocean has always been the underworld , and source of their demons ; except for a few intrepid fishermen , they used to approach it only to scatter the cremated ashes of their dead . |
| 29 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 30 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |