Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If both you and the other person can find something to laugh about together it paves the way for a harmonious transaction . |
| 2 | Suddenly it passed the point of no return and plunged downwards . |
| 3 | He admitted that the ending of PRT rebates might make it more costly to drill wells confirming the size of the field , but added : ‘ We look at the production side rather than exploration and we also look at how much it costs the Government . ’ |
| 4 | We need to know the costs of making the world a little safer , and we need to encourage society to make a decision about how much it values the benefits . |
| 5 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 6 | And as for damage to an historic monument , to wit Dumbarton Rock , and the subject of the piece in The Observer , the photograph that appeared alongside it gives the lie to this self-generated argument . |
| 7 | Where the requirement for additional labour can be specified precisely , and the organisation knows precisely how long it requires the staff concerned , fixed-term contracts are most appropriate . |
| 8 | That 's how long it took the 18-year-old to score with his first touch on his Roker Park debut . |
| 9 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 10 | How long it took the teacher to become familiar with the control of the program and to consider how to use it with his pupils . |
| 11 | By comparing similar projects and their slopes along the graph , one learns how long it takes the organization to transform an idea into a business reality . |
| 12 | A stream of the same name drains a wide moorland above the fall and below it enters the head of Loch Glencoul . |
| 13 | Naturally it disturbs the farm . |
| 14 | ‘ It is obvious that ‘ reputation , ’ in the sense in which alone it concerns the subject of defamation , has relation to the particular person enjoying it . |
| 15 | So by controlling the concentration of the reagents that will affect which way it goes and a lot of them are temperature sensitive , we heat it up it goes one way , cool it down it goes the other . |
| 16 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps it oversimplifies the situation to treat these as two quite different uses of such expressions as ‘ I believe that seems , rather , that it is built into the meaning of ‘ I believe that … ’ that it hovers between expressing tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , and expressing belief or awareness that the speaker believes that it is so . |
| 18 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 19 | Perhaps it signifies the fact that the poem could apply to anyone in life for we are all at this moment in the process of dying even though presumably not as far forward on our journey as the poet . |
| 20 | ON the edge of limestone country , Ease Gill is classic limestone : at its lower end it is a dry " alley with an impressive cavernous " kirk " , and further upstream it has the waterfall at Cow Dub where the beck leaves a pure white flowstone bed to drop twenty feet through a collapsed cavern into a deep pool where it is again cupped in limestone . |
| 21 | Obviously it allows the production of a very large number of exercise examples . |
| 22 | Only it has the power to change the constitution . |
| 23 | does n't cost me anything , me personally it costs the practice |
| 24 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 25 | Use the stand alone system so it gets the date that we 're going to collect it , it can say all the things that we 've said , it 's , you know , we wrote to you some time ago and , and er we , we did n't get the money if you do n't , as you said , if you do n't send us this money we 're gon na sounds like a threat does n't it , if you do n't send this money within the next three months we 'll automatically collect it together with your regular premium due on the date |
| 26 | So it remains the case that everyone earning over the threshold has to pay contributions on every pound earned , up to the ceiling of £325 a week . |
| 27 | But having done so it rendered the Convention otiose except in relation to non-EEC members of the Council of Europe . |
| 28 | So it shoots the notes down into the body better , and the whole instrument resonates . |
| 29 | And so it killed the Doctor . |
| 30 | The rheme is all there is in the clause and so it receives the reader 's undivided attention . |