Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I suppose the general aim is to get a huge Hollywood star , a singer , and perhaps a home-grown character , but it rarely works out like that and sometimes the most unlikely combination can really work . |
2 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
3 | This should be set so that it only comes out under considerable pressure . |
4 | It just goes in like that . |
5 | this one it just comes out like soft rubber |
6 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
7 | Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July . |
8 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
9 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
10 | It simply comes down to this : if deer are not culled , they die of starvation . |
11 | It then takes up to 15 stages of filtration and other methods to separate the few parts per million of useful protein . |
12 | It then starts off on another ‘ rodent-run ’ , watching to see if it is followed . |
13 | It then moves on to simple applications of that technology ( standalone applications ) normally driven by technologists . |
14 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
15 | Second , the same is true of the mental work that people do on the job , for as this work grows more complex , it too separates out into distinct categories or types of mental activity . |
16 | It 's a euphemism for dusting , but of course it never works out like that . |