Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 2 | The basic idea is that profit from long-term business is recognised as it accrues rather than when it emerges as a cash surplus released from a long-term fund , as the current statutory method dictates . |
| 3 | ‘ But you did n't even consult me , ’ said Ken reproachfully when presently it occurred to him to ask what she 'd called the baby , and Wendy told him . |
| 4 | more often than not it lacks continuity and progression or any serious attempt to ensure that adequate time and attention are given to the elements said to comprise the topic . |
| 5 | A team has a high success rate , ie more often than not it achieves what it sets out to do . |
| 6 | The debate which may ensue from involving another person in a decision may at times seem to complicate things , but more often than not it adds to the validity of the decision . |
| 7 | The cast is assembled , but more often than not it has nothing to say . |
| 8 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 9 | The double box was a wonderful link between the three happy friends — as often as not it took Andrew 's horse on as well as Lal 's . |
| 10 | Often as not it has to make several passes through the gravel before all of the suspended matter is finally trapped in the gravel . |
| 11 | Whatever the reasons , discovering why programming might have ‘ failed ’ — as well as why it has succeeded — is all part of the learning process . |
| 12 | tell me what it means , you 've got some secondary school type words there as well it says has been co-operative and helpful in the classroom . |
| 13 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 14 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |