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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Forty years later it rings true . |
| 7 | Years ago it housed all the village activities including lantern slides , then moving pictures when they came into being . |
| 8 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 9 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 10 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If it is necessary to draw a clear distinction between social problems and sociological questions then it follows that sociology must maintain a critical distance from the ideas — whether dominant or otherwise — of any particular society at any particular time . |
| 16 | So , at the top there it says conventional memory , two seven four O four eight , of two seven four O four eight . |
| 17 | On this evidence therefore it seems possible that , on the evening of 14 May , AFHQ was working on the assumption that Loehr 's forces , including hundreds of thousands of Germans , had already surrendered to 5 Corps or were about to do so , and therefore that the German element in those forces might be included in the " 500,000 " Germans whom AFHQ was asking SHAEF/12th Army Group to take over . |
| 18 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 19 | Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there . |
| 20 | Over a period of three hundred years , black people have achieved a growing presence in sport in Britain yet it seems pathetic that we have no account for it apart from reference to the mysterious attribute called natural ability . |
| 21 | If this is the case then it raises serious concerns about the commitment of the EC to reducing the range of economic prosperity within its boundaries . |
| 22 | A word of caution is required because if everyone is working on a sub-problem then it becomes difficult to tackle the whole problem in a novel way . |
| 23 | His ceilings are a generous 8 feet high ( not 7 feet ) ; the walls are almost three times the normal thickness ( not 6 but 16 inches , if made of stone ) , and the building , far from being sunk in the ground , is raised 15–18 inches above it to avoid damp . |
| 24 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 25 | When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 26 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 27 | It is very important in this environment that somebody administers each system otherwise it becomes cluttered or unvetted ( and for example , objectionable ) messages may be sent to others . |
| 28 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |