Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 2 | For if there really is only one version of good primary practice then it becomes obvious that everyone should subscribe to it . |
| 3 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 4 | Put your cat somewhere it feels safe , away from the removals scene , or arrange for a neighbour , friend or relative to look after it . |
| 5 | They then run it into pits , break it up , and use it for road stone or alternatively , the molten slag is run over water-cooled rollers where it forms little tiny pellets with a high air content which are used for making insulation blocks . |
| 6 | , they , remember last , end of last winter when it got mild after the cold spell , they were building their nests and then we got all that cold weather again , all the , all the fledglings were dead . |
| 7 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Forty years later it rings true . |
| 10 | Years ago it housed all the village activities including lantern slides , then moving pictures when they came into being . |
| 11 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 12 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 13 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 14 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 15 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 16 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 17 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 18 | As with the acquisition of any skill it requires conscious effort as each skill is practised to the point where it becomes effortless ( see Skilful behaviour on page 155 ) . |
| 19 | So at the point where it becomes clear that absolute egalitarianism is going to encroach on the interests of the middle peasants , you need to stop it ? |
| 20 | These would inevitably introduce distortion , noise and hiss and the signal would gradually become degraded to the point where it became unintelligible . |
| 21 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 22 | On some days when it looks good and I let it dry naturally it goes curly . |
| 23 | One result would be that the Government could not time a general election to its own advantage , going to the country at the moment when it feels most popular ; so general elections might result in a change of Government more often . |
| 24 | For British golf fanatics , there has perhaps never been a more nerve-wracking day than when , with only four points to get in the final singles , there was never a moment when it appeared likely that we could get them . |
| 25 | Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images . |
| 26 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 27 | Broomfield and Alexander , a seven partner firm based in south Wales , had been the club 's auditors for many years when it hit financial difficulties . |
| 28 | This moderate system of government was frequently adopted by Charles , who early on in his reign had recognised the wisdom of leaving local leaders in place wherever it seemed possible and beneficial to his own aims . |
| 29 | For example , one of the attractions in my area , Balmoral Castle , as a couple of exhibitions which are open to the public for part of the year , now the entrance fees for that actually goes to charity so it benefits other people apart from the tourists themselves . |
| 30 | In most insects , however , the greater part of the cuticle undergoes a process of sclerotization whereby it becomes hardened and darkened to form more or less tough , rigid sclerites separated from each other by membranous zones of unchanged soft cuticle . |