Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in abstract thinking it has always been our habit to assume the role of Ego perfectly isolated from spontaneity ; and even when in theory we have learned to distinguish the play-acting from real life , we are still liable to slip back into thinking as though the agent applying ‘ Be aware ’ were indeed an Ego unaffected by inclination veering with awareness . |
| 2 | The truth is that despite the siting of the creamery it has probably not been made with local products for some time . |
| 3 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 4 | Of the female work force it represents nearly seven percent and all at once . |
| 5 | The NKLP 'S sister party in the south , the SKLP , had suffered serious reverses in 1949 at the hands of the Rhee government and was no longer the force it had once been . |
| 6 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 7 | And er the sun does n't always travel at the same speed it goes fast and slow so we can also measure the the sun . |
| 8 | At little more than walking speed it glides away . |
| 9 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 10 | It sill shows the damage inflicted by Maj von Keller with an axe behind a barn at Quatre Bras ; to his disappointment it contained only dishes and toilet articles , not the gold coins he had expected . |
| 11 | For treachery and cold-blooded murder it has seldom been surpassed . |
| 12 | According to the general principles of thermodynamics it depends only on the temperature . |
| 13 | As I turned this thought over in my mind it became as sparkling and as beautiful as the morning itself . |
| 14 | But have they always been able to machine it Norm I mean to my mind it 's always been sort of , you know , you buy , whatever they are like for afters and that and that 's how you use them to make your garden shed or whatever |
| 15 | When John Leland was touring England , observing and recording , in the years 1534–43 , he was not always certain how a town differed from a village , and so concluded a list of Staffordshire market towns with ‘ Tetenhaul a village and a college about a myle from Wuluerhampton ’ , although there is no confirmation it had ever been anything more . |
| 16 | She was whirling higher and higher , her body finding for itself a rhythm it had never been taught , till unknowingly she cried his name aloud , unable to contain the feelings building to explosion point a second longer . |
| 17 | In future it seems quite likely that there may be pressure from the Training Commission for a test or certificate of attainment specifically for those working on the TVEI , and that certificate might overlap with the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education . |
| 18 | Then suddenly everyone was no longer concerned for her as she lay there , but for another woman ; a tiny fierce woman whose fault it had all not been and Lisa 's gigantic , striding power melted into softness , soppy for the baby . |
| 19 | At the time , I was on the tarmac , where Hunt , with the offending Regazzoni , whose fault it had all been , behind him , sat in his repaired race car , which he had abandoned around Druids — not having completed a lap . |
| 20 | Indeed , in the course of our research it became increasingly clear that many of those commenting upon the " new " temporary working were making reference to the same small number of examples of this practice — examples , moreover , in which the number of temporary workers actually employed was often very low [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 21 | In areas of endemic haemonchosis it has often been observed that after the advent of a period of heavy rain the faecal worm egg counts of sheep infected with H. contortus drop sharply to near zero levels due to the expulsion of the major part of the adult worm burden . |
| 22 | K was Ketone-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane , which was the toxic chemical it had actually been sprayed with . |
| 23 | Er if you read the accounts of the Ark it looks very like an Egyptian sarcophagus . |
| 24 | In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not . |
| 25 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 26 | It was the first time that there had been a debate on the viability and the desirability of having an element of compulsory further education , which in theory was to enrol all adolescents , though in practice it applied mainly to those from the working class . |
| 27 | Though all this may sound complicated , after the first year 's practice it becomes merely routine . |
| 28 | ‘ His voice , ’ he wrote , ‘ was rough to begin with but with constant practice it became memorably beautiful . ’ |
| 29 | In practice it proved logistically impossible to observe the strict letter of the law or to completely suppress these cultures . |
| 30 | The theoretical basis of the project was therefore straightforward , but in practice it proved significantly less so . |