Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 However , although it doubtless contains some forms that are simply ‘ errors ’ , it also exhibits the kind of orderly variation that could be captured within a variable rule framework , but in spelling variation rather than phonology .
2 The reason why Roger was styled ‘ de Meuland ’ ( or ‘ Meuleng ’ , ‘ Meulent ’ , ‘ Molend ’ , etc. ) is unclear , although it probably indicates some connection with Meulon in Normandy .
3 The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way .
4 During the first decade it seems , on average , to have run below £200,000 , although it sometimes exceeded that figure .
5 This confession must he treated with scepticism , although it possibly has some factual substratum and is not merely a figment of Walsingham 's imagination .
6 The grass is so high in parts of West Derby cemetery that it completely hides some of the gravestones .
7 This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees .
8 Leaving aside the question of how such a perfect and whole symbiotic relationship could have ever evolved , Darwinian-style and piecemeal , out of ‘ random fluctuations in the DNA of wasp and orchid ’ , we are left with the interesting observation that the mind structure , or instinct , of the wasp is organized in such a way that it instinctively seeks this particular shape , for the purposes of fulfilling its urge to mate .
9 It is possible that this is a result of the different judgment tasks that were used , certainly subjects reported finding the normality judgment a more difficult task to understand than either of the tasks from Study 2 , it is possible that it also required more attention to the films generally .
10 But as his success within the Movement , within the German State , and on the international stage grew until it knew no bounds , so the self-deception of the ‘ conviction ’ ideologist magnified to the extent that it ultimately consumed all traces of the calculating and opportunist politician , leaving in its place only a voracious appetite for destruction — and ultimately self-destruction .
11 It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension .
12 It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him .
13 On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong .
14 To say that the Crown had the right of appointment is to say only that it had at least the possibility of a voice , not that it necessarily exercised any real right of selection .
15 In these situations there is no hope for an end to these ‘ holy ’ conflicts unless there becomes available some completely new religion which rejects all existing ‘ gods ’ , and offers an alternative form of religion and deity with viability so well reasoned and convincing that it inexorably eliminates all others .
16 Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression .
17 The Utica/St John 's posse denies , however , that it ever had any kind of gang affiliation or that the current troublemakers are connected with them .
18 IBM has been counting up its hangers-on and finds that it currently has some 40 OEMs doing things like boards and systems with the PowerPC chip .
19 The realisation that this illness could apply to anyone broke down the illusion that it only affects those who have dropped out of society .
20 Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations :
21 It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour .
22 Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle .
23 It depends in part on how one perceives the function that the Act serves , and it probably serves several .
24 The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror .
25 Combine this with a lesson with Jennie Loriston-Clarke , Britain 's top dressage rider , and it surely becomes any aspiring dressage rider 's dream come true .
26 like a yellow and that just says ring , ring , ring that brings the lane and it just does that , that 's that belt , all it 's doing is taking it through them relay contacts
27 So , yes , it has a big database of about oh three thousand numbers , and it just looks these up essentially .
28 That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War .
29 Can I , can I connect this with the notes , because it does raise the point about er , the judges , whether they should have retired er earlier , and it also involves another matter , I think .
30 ‘ Face ’ and ‘ mask ’ may still be the wrong metaphor , for it is too rigid , denying the fluid state of continual remoulding , and it also denies those rare but important occasions when mask and face are indistinguishable .
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