Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now I promise you if you do as we tell you and your diary looks like , my white board if you like , every week for the next sort of twenty eight days , you will be successful , because if you do something consistently for twenty eight days , apparently it becomes a habit . |
2 | I was recently offered a second-hand hard drive — apparently it has a capacity of 33Mb , but I do n't know much else about it . |
3 | The glacier beyond was dirty and torturous , but we trekked down it to reach a sandspill outfall . |
4 | it slows down it drops a lot of the silt , mud and rocks . |
5 | Would you say that , perhaps it shows a flaw in the examination system if someone could do this ? |
6 | Obviously it had a lot of film and limited time to show the mighty effort of the physicists of 13 countries in overcoming the obstacles to establish the complex , gargantuan apparatus for the experiment . |
7 | Obviously it takes a lot longer to do . |
8 | Now there 's a very good example of the way in which a domestic concern has an impact in terms of international events because obviously it put a strain on Anglo-U S relations . |
9 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
10 | So it plays a part in that sense . ’ |
11 | Yeah , so it takes a bit longer |
12 | They put it on a a solvent or a fat in layers and let the oil seep through , and so it takes a lot longer and is more difficult to get . |
13 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
14 | and you know it had broke off , so it had a load of spokes on and just went straight through him . |
15 | Offerings of food are placed before the figure and so it assumes a role almost equal to that of a human , and it is in this light that it becomes understandable why the sanctum of Indian temples is usually taboo to all but the priests who attend the icon and perform the ceremonial prayers . |
16 | So it hired a US market research company , G2 Research Inc , which specialises in systems integration and computer services , to question information technology directors , plus a mix of other directors and end-users , at 77 wholesale finance organisations in Europe , the US and Canada . |
17 | So it adopted a policy of fostering basic ‘ heavy industries ’ ( steel , chemicals , shipbuilding ) . |
18 | So it became a tussle between us . |
19 | So it became a siege of attrition , as the days and nights went by . |
20 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
21 | A community which is then in a position to provide care and support within the community properly funded by local government , so it becomes a symbiosis . |
22 | To do so it loads a driver DEVSWAP.COM in the CONFIG.SYS file . |
23 | And then er the the the lace trade he he worked on , when women wore high collars , boned high collars and he made the little narrow edging lace about like that and it was goffered so it made a frill round the face . |
24 | So it presented a mix of business operations of a rather specialised type , but also a classic area of interface between the public and private sector . |
25 | So it entails a break with not just the importance of content , but also with traditional and established aesthetic form . |
26 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
27 | So it has a lot to gain . |
28 | Right so it shows a Silverstone motor racing circuit |
29 | That was the crunch point , the writing and the doing of it — that did n't happen , so it has n't got them , so it looks a bit blander than it should have been . |
30 | So it comes a bit expensive for her then does n't it ? |