Example sentences of "[subord] it first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hooker 's success could be even more impressive than it first appears , since some reference works list his date of birth as August 22 , 1917 . |
| 2 | Often , this is more complex than it first appears . |
| 3 | However in practice the change has been less dramatic than it first appears , for two reasons . |
| 4 | Take-up on that scale could make Mr Major 's first budget a lot more memorable than it first appeared . |
| 5 | Suddenly the hour is less pleasant than it first appeared |
| 6 | Although Labour 's defeat was crushing ( its share of the vote dropped by almost 13 percentage points ) , the National Party victory was less decisive than it first appeared . |
| 7 | This is tougher than it first looks as it does not cover news , sport , game-shows or teletext services . |
| 8 | 15 ( 1 ) No action shall be brought by any person to recover any land after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him or , if it first accrued to some person through whom he claims , to that person . |
| 9 | Treatment for a sexual problem in one partner is rarely successful , or if it first appears so when some mental block is eased , results in the exposure of the problem in the other . |
| 10 | If it first encounters P , it can not get through at all , since it is the state which is extinguished by P , . |
| 11 | Decio where the courts ruled that a corporation could not recover unless it first proved that it had in fact been injured by the insider 's illicit trading . |
| 12 | It can not do this unless it first challenges the secularist assumption so endemic in our society . |
| 13 | El Nino ( ’ the child ’ , because it first becomes apparent around Christmas ) is a warm ocean current that recurs every seven to 14 years . |
| 14 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 15 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been teaching Connections since it first came out , and I enjoy it very much , and so do the vast majority of our students . ’ |
| 17 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 18 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 19 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 20 | Since it first opened in April , almost 5,000 people have been through the doors . |
| 21 | It has shrunk a little since it first started there , perhaps in the tenth century , but it is still one of the largest open-air markets in the country . |
| 22 | Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes . |
| 23 | It is the first major development at the school since it first opened in 1957 . |
| 24 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 25 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 26 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
| 27 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 28 | Ever since it first appeared , the tractor , like the motor car has been a potential source of danger and death . |
| 29 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 30 | Big Pit closed as a working colliery in 1980 , exactly 100 years after it first produced coal . |