Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the basis for the pathogenesis is not well enough established for us to expect you to understand the details of how it achieves these processes , but one thing which is remarkably clear is that the organism is a capsule producing organism and that once it gets into the er cerebral spinal fluid that predominately is an acute inflammatory . |
| 2 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |
| 3 | Big brother was staying in Islington , making a living from TV comedy shows by being one of the twenty or so names that zip up the screen under where it says Additional Material By : , and trying to be a stand-up comic . |
| 4 | From herein it gets weirder . |
| 5 | From herein it gets weirder . |
| 6 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 7 | From outside it looked narrow enough for me to put my arms around . |
| 8 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 9 | Start from where it says little knobs he |
| 10 | In May UNITA not only recaptured Mavinga but also switched the focus of its campaign to its military base in Béu in the north-west near the border with Zaïre , from where it received major airlifts of US supplies and equipment . |
| 11 | The new law will become effective three months from when it receives royal assent . |
| 12 | to where it evaporates one step from the bottom , |
| 13 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 14 | In other words , black kids teach each other about the world and about how it works contrary to their interests . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Their eyes met , and all at once it seemed hard to breathe . |
| 17 | It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles . |
| 18 | Scoop-necked , and cut high on the hip , at least it felt safer than a bikini . |
| 19 | And if this was nothing more , at least it had all the trappings of a glamorous evening . |
| 20 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 21 | If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through . |
| 22 | The second , which has only one complete sentence out of six units bounded by full stops , very clearly does make sense ( at least it seems fair to predict that for most people it will ) . |
| 23 | At least it seems aware of where its problems lie , and that is a good start . |
| 24 | That quite startled her and at least it gave Marguerite a starting point for conversation . |
| 25 | The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo . |
| 26 | At least it started that way , then the sharkskin dress was rubbing against me and other things began to seem far away . |
| 27 | I 'm not sure about the scratchplate shape , but at least it shows some originality . |
| 28 | At least it covered all the sharp projections , and we discovered it could be cut ridiculously easy with a saw , to something like level with the surrounding crazy paving . |
| 29 | On these more complicated issues the short-paragraph style is less satisfactory , leading to over-simplification , but at least it puts these concerns on the green consumer 's agenda . |
| 30 | At least it teaches one respect for facts . |