Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 2 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 3 | There 's no danger of the river rising so fast it floods the course as it sometimes does but sadly as you can see , rain overnight and it 's raining now . |
| 4 | He was in the Apostle Matthew , Chapter 10 , and the fervent finger , pressing so hard it dimpled the leaf , rested on Verse 21 . |
| 5 | The Aleutian trench is thus where it hits the North American Plate ; the trenches of Kurlin , Japan , Bonin , Mariana ( the deepest in the world , with a hole of 36,201 feet ) , Yap , Palau and Manus indicate its collision with the Eurasian Plate ; the Mussau , Solomon , Vitiaz , Torres and New Hebrides trenches show where the Pacific Plate overrides the subducted Indo-Australian Plate ; and the Tonga , Kermadec , Hikurangi , Hjort , Iselin and Balleny trenches demonstrate the effect of bumping into the same Indo — Australian Plate and passing beneath it . |
| 6 | Mistakes of that sort apart , it would seem that , as had always been the case , some sort of checking system was needed to give lenders the required degree of confidence to carry on , and that the more thorough and ‘ scientific ’ it was the better for both borrower and lender , the more effectively it reduced the incidence of overindebtedness , and saved borrowers from overstretching themselves and indulging in mad bouts of impulsive buying . |
| 7 | More importantly it brought the team to the attention of Eric Shipton , the leader of the British expedition group planning an attempt on Everest . |
| 8 | This is not simply a problem which affects writers and journalists , but more importantly it plagues the lives of people in those regions , and those in government who try to plan for the future . |
| 9 | ON the edge of limestone country , Ease Gill is classic limestone : at its lower end it is a dry " alley with an impressive cavernous " kirk " , and further upstream it has the waterfall at Cow Dub where the beck leaves a pure white flowstone bed to drop twenty feet through a collapsed cavern into a deep pool where it is again cupped in limestone . |
| 10 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 11 | More often it involves the purchase of an operational division or the purchase of one business owned and operated by a multitude of different companies within a group . |
| 12 | More often it takes the plural form , indicating partition of the property between co-heiresses , like Agnes Chaplayne and Beatrix Salesbury at Gayhurst , Bucks . |
| 13 | This occasionally resulted in amendments — more often it took the form of assurances from ministers about future intentions . |
| 14 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 50 people and wounded 500 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 15 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 40 people and wounded 350 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 16 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 17 | Once again the assassin feeds and once again it uses the left-overs of its meal as a bait to attract another victim . |
| 18 | Before Haussmann attempts had been made by various small companies to provide street lighting by gas , but once again it required the drive and determination of the new regime to bring all these together and to create one large company charged with the responsibility of lighting the whole of the city . |
| 19 | Released worldwide on all formats on November 24 ( Sonic Tuesday , apparently ) , once again it sees the animal libber hedgehog taking on the evil Dr Robotnik through a series of worlds ( The Mystic Cave , The Toxic Plant Zone etc ) . |
| 20 | More specifically it considers the contradictions of , and the prospects for , international economic co-operation , especially macro-economic co-operation . |
| 21 | The transnational capitalist class is a bridge between the nation-state and the global system and the more assiduously it brings transnational practices into what were once the realm of the regional or the national , then the more faithfully it serves the interests of the system . |
| 22 | Her mind had been occupied with things like the freezing point of soda water or the melting point of cheese ; later on it became the non-revolutionary redistribution of the means of production and the alternate vote . |
| 23 | Partly too it reflects the ability of small business to mobilize their LDP connections to oppose planning applications for larger stores . |
| 24 | Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like . |
| 25 | We know now where it cuts the axes . |
| 26 | Even so it seems the Czechs are more worried about the tie than Airdrie . |
| 27 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 28 | In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them . |
| 29 | Unable to meet his eyes , she stared at the garden , wondering vaguely why it looked the same when she felt so very different . |
| 30 | Were he to do so , it would mean that should he take any step later than the time specified in the clause then however slight the delay and however little it affected the tenant , he would lose the benefit of the clause for the next five , seven or ten years or whatever the intervals for revision might be . |