Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 2 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
| 3 | They have an ingenious device called a " lens ' , whose shape appears to be mathematically calculated so that it bends these silent rays in such a way that there is an exact one-to-one mapping between objects in the world and an " image " on a sheet of cells called the " retina " . |
| 4 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 5 | Ideally , this provision should be deleted , or at the very least it should be amended so that it applies only to the consent of a mortgagee or superior landlord actually required under the terms of an existing mortgage or superior lease . |
| 6 | This is important for the biologizing of consciousness : consciousness will evolve only if it improves the survival chances of creatures endowed with it ; and it will have survival value only if it accurately reports what is actually ‘ there ’ . |
| 7 | Yet such a demand must be clearly formulated so that it challenges the stereotypes of women 's role . |
| 8 | The hip belt should be adjusted so that it fits snugly on the hip girdle , and not round the waist . |
| 9 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 10 | The normal justification thesis states that accepting authority is justified only if it improves one 's compliance with reason . |
| 11 | The purpose is to improve work performance and is justified only if it has that result . |
| 12 | I must give this to the Prime Minister , explain the strong feelings and see whether the guidelines can be altered so that it becomes more usual to impose a stiffer sentence . |
| 13 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 14 | It must be redesigned so that it illuminates the choices facing the country — not , as now , obscures them . |
| 15 | A bedcradle was placed so that it relieved the weight of the bedclothes from her legs . |
| 16 | It fits that account better than it fits others , including a probabilistic account of which a bit more will be said . |
| 17 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 18 | On the other hand , taking the issue costs of equity shares to the statement of total recognised gains and losses may be considered right as it reflects the nature of these costs as a permanent loss of capital . |
| 19 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 20 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 21 | According to Judge Abraham Sofaer , Brunei was picked especially because it received no assistance already , and would seem to be returning no favours ; it was never intended to get anything beyond appreciation . |
| 22 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 23 | The implications of mediation between the user and the source is a question that needs to be addressed especially if it increases in the electronic archive . |
| 24 | The chariot itself may attack only as it charges causing D6 hits plus +1 per scythe if scythes are fitted on the model . |
| 25 | The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further . |
| 26 | These three factors must be considered together because it seems that both parental mental illness and parental separation or divorce may have a particularly damaging effect on the children if they are associated with prolonged overt marital discord , especially where the child becomes directly involved . |
| 27 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 28 | This is not arbitrary — it is designed so that it operates just as well with colour-blind predators as with those that have good colour vision . |
| 29 | Artificial lenses of this shape are optically poor , but a fish 's lens is designed so that it corrects these aberrations , achieving a quality of image with a single lens which camera manufacturers are still trying to match . |
| 30 | It matters only that it does . |