Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it has steps leading up to it . |
| 2 | It was red and looked too small to be a lorry but never the less it had wheels like the carts in the village . |
| 3 | Thus it includes provisions for allowing the emergence of new institutions , one of which is the new open university aimed at providing extramural education for particular groups in Greek society and the foundation of a centre for the Greek language to coordinate the maintenance and dissemination of Greek in the European environment . |
| 4 | Somehow it conjures images of smuggling days , perhaps because of its standing as the chief gathering place for the seafarers of former times . |
| 5 | Usually it heralded rains even so , but this year the river gradually subsided once more . |
| 6 | Moreover it imposes limits upon the proportion of labour-power which can safely be devoted to unproductive labour . |
| 7 | See how quickly it changes tools ? ’ |
| 8 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 9 | Clearly it viewed suggestions for data protection legislation , especially those which made the inclusion of public sector computers a central point , with disfavour , and until pressure from Europe proved irresistible it was successful . |
| 10 | But inevitably it robs women of their strength and power and cramps their personality . |
| 11 | But now it appears thieves are being increasingly interested in taking on the hole in the wall and that means bigger and heavier vehicles to do it . |
| 12 | Very often it helps pupils to make the imaginative leap that is required of a historian . |
| 13 | Often it takes meetings such as this to reveal the pervasive nature of culturally determined behaviour . |
| 14 | This back scratching may include taking data directly from the banks computer , but more often it provides details of the bank 's systems , which makes it easier for the enquiry agent to embark on the well timed impersonation . |
| 15 | Originally it had gates and walls further out to sea . |
| 16 | Today it sent shareholders a defence document , insisting the bid undervalues the company … |
| 17 | Well it says jeans and a jumper or trousers and a jumper . |
| 18 | It well it does tapes yeah but it 's like the bass keeps on going down then it goes high then the main bit 's like You know what I mean it all gets crapped up so i 'll tape it again . |
| 19 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 20 | Two years ago it attracted viewers in 30 nations . |
| 21 | Sunday brunch is one of the great American inventions and here it means Eggs Benedict washed down with a ‘ Mimosa ’ — champagne and fresh Florida orange juice . |
| 22 | WELL here it comes folks , the biggest , most rip-roaring , full-throttle , Boys Own movie yarn of the year , and resplendent movie with a capital M it most certainly is . |
| 23 | Although clearly an intercontinental collision orogen , the present elevated form of the Himalayas is not a direct consequence of continental collision ; rather it reflects developments that have occurred since the initial impact some 50 Ma BP . |
| 24 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 25 | This is the case in ( 1 ) , where B 's final sentence " I ca n't find all that shitteries ( = junk , stuff ) in a day " is the portion of her turn responded to by her listeners , with a chorus of " you ca n't " and " sometimes it takes years " . |
| 26 | Sometimes it took hours and sometimes it did n't . |
| 27 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 28 | Sometimes it took weeks to persuade an owner to surrender his pet . |
| 29 | stuffed and then it had sequins sewn and that . |
| 30 | Some stores had started cutting prices before Christmas , but then it seemed customers were keeping their money in their pockets . |