Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound of the water faded , there were only the two of them locked in this tiny space , and suddenly it became difficult to breathe . |
| 2 | The ‘ now ’ here instead corresponds to the ‘ now ’ on & alpha Centauri in 4.5 years ' time , because that is how long it takes light to get from here to there . |
| 3 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 4 | So it felt obliged to withdraw the invitation . |
| 5 | The better you are the more you win , and , consequently , you face less pressure and so it becomes easier to win . |
| 6 | So it seemed sensible to move into this area , take advantage of that for ourselves , and provide them with a better service . |
| 7 | From the small number of neonatal stomachs examined it seems that the distribution of parietal cells remains constant after birth , and so it appears reasonable to assume that a definite change in distribution of parietal cells must occur during the third trimester . |
| 8 | will it , so it 's all got ta |
| 9 | Well it depends on the people who are producing or directing or whatever , so it 's all got different ways of doing it . |
| 10 | Well it depends on the people who are producing or directing or whatever , so it 's all got different ways of doing it . |
| 11 | So it seems premature to anticipate a reduction in risk by citing evidence from only one large case control study ( the CASH study ) which , it ought also to have been added , was completed in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | All too soon it became politic to think about returning Tony 's toy to its rightful owner . |
| 13 | But this enthusiasm swiftly evaporated and soon it became difficult to find anyone who was satisfied with it , let alone enthusiastic . |
| 14 | Later , the processes slow down with the shift to increased differentiation with a rapid fall in mitotic index in both embryo and fetal membranes after day 14 , thus it becomes difficult to obtain chromosome preparations from the later stages , particularly shortly preceding birth . |
| 15 | Well that weight , that weight it 's just it felt comfortable to wear . |
| 16 | Somehow it seemed easier to dress while Guy was absent . |
| 17 | Somehow it seemed silly to knock . |
| 18 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 19 | It 's a fact , whether or not it seems easy depends on how it is approached , how it is taught . |
| 20 | It took three quarters of an hour to get it out and meanwhile it did some damage . |
| 21 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 22 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 23 | Almost at once it swung open to let out a surge of laughter and music as a tall dark man with a scar on one cheek clapped Penry on the back and introduced himself to Leonora as Nick Wood , then beckoned to a tall , beautiful woman with a mane of ash-blonde hair , who excused herself from a group of people to come running to throw her arms round Penry 's neck . |
| 24 | Their eyes met , and all at once it seemed hard to breathe . |
| 25 | The report of this inquiry found that some ill-treatment of patients had indeed taken place but also it found much to criticize in general : lax standards of nursing , inadequate medical care , poor conditions and bad management . |
| 26 | Hence it remains necessary to explain in further detail the present legal provisions and to highlight some of the problems to which they can give rise . |
| 27 | Hence it seems right to argue , as does Kohn ( 1967 , pp. 99–100 ) , that nationalism and the formation of nation states depend upon the development of popular sovereignty ; that historically , in Western Europe and subsequently in other parts of the world , they emerged in opposition to the existing political arrangements of empires or feudal societies , as aspects of a broad democratic movement . |
| 28 | The data so produced may be of use to parsing systems , whenever it becomes necessary to know whether a noun must have a certain feature , not merely that it may have it . |
| 29 | Years later it seemed reasonable to identify the ghost train with nearby trains on well concealed tracks linking Dalton-in-Furness with Askam-in-Furness and Barrow-in-Furness respectively , but this explanation did not entirely remove the doubts and fears experienced even in retrospect . |
| 30 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |