Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 3 | So although it looks like , Ooh this is horrible , four equations four unknowns , I 'll be here all night |
| 4 | But I will say this , it 's a great deal better than it looks from the outside . ’ |
| 5 | Devise your method and then tell your story , which inevitably will make the mystery seem rather better than it has to be , because all locked rooms are variants of a small number of simple devices , most of which are ways of making such rooms unlocked all along . |
| 6 | It is important to plan the evaluation process at the outset so that it relates to the stated objectives . |
| 7 | It means that you can spot irrelevancies and be better at controlling your behaviour so that it contributes to the achievement of your objective . |
| 8 | ‘ The club is unique , and we want to see it develop so that it compares with the Queen 's Rugby Club , that is serving as a platform to provide some of the country 's top players . |
| 9 | We need not a tinkering with security policy — a change here and a change there — but a root-and-branch change in security policy so that it changes from a reactive one to a proactive one and becomes a policy of going after the IRA , of taking the fight to the IRA . |
| 10 | Profiles of Development presupposes a common developmental path , and thus encourages the control of pupils ' learning experience so that it conforms to that path . |
| 11 | Secondly , I would point out that it is unusual for the Committee to be able to assert with confidence that legislation which is changed so that it conforms to their views , was changed solely because of these views . |
| 12 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 13 | To shoot your cannon first turn it on the spot so that it points towards your intended target . |
| 14 | Place six of the canes in the base holes and fit the roof on top so that it sits on top of the cake . |
| 15 | How can you praise people authentically so that it functions as an encourager ? |
| 16 | Before the fungus kills the fly , it attacks its nervous system , changing its behaviour so that it climbs to the top of the plant , puts its head down to attach its proboscis to the leaf , and sticks its abdomen up into the air , ready for the passing breezes to take the spores away when they are released . |
| 17 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 18 | Can it be mixed with half peat so that it goes to er |
| 19 | Funding for care in the community will be ‘ ring fenced ’ so that it goes to the elderly , infirm and those with disabilities to enable them to stay in their own homes if they wish . |
| 20 | and put it so that it goes over your feet |
| 21 | This first capacitor is then connected to the second one in the chain via a buffet stage so that it passes on the sampled voltage . |
| 22 | They pump oxygen into the bloodstream , so that it passes through the heart and reaches the working muscles . |
| 23 | Place BCD so that it passes through A and cuts the fixed straight line at C . |
| 24 | It needs to be recast , so that it extends beyond academic staff to embrace the student body . |
| 25 | ‘ The rootzone is protected under the warmth of the polypropylene carpet and , although the grass can be kicked off during play , the roots are not damaged so that it recovers during the growing season . ’ |
| 26 | Thus I may define ‘ propaganda ’ , which usually has an unfavourable valuational meaning , so that it refers to any vigorous attempt to change people 's outlook . |
| 27 | Y I mean local Manchester Evening News issues that they put out in they put out where where we live in Kearsley , there 's a lot of people in Kearsley buy the Manchester And er we 've got to feed the candidate with all these things so that it gets into the into the Your local newspaper , the local free paper goes out in every area , you must get the name in as from tomorrow . |
| 28 | The rate of breakdown of organic detritus is only modest in the temperate grasslands , so that it accumulates in the soil . |
| 29 | Thus if a close approximation to such a transformer features in the bridge circuit of figure 7.10(a) with its secondary winding tapped so that it divides into two portions having turns N 1 and N 2 , the ratio of the potential differences across these secondary portions will be near enough . |
| 30 | It 's tempting , when fitting a permanent substitute for the battery , to rewire the existing on-off switch so that it operates on the mains supply to the transformer primary . |