Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This replica of the Eole was seen at a ‘ ULM ’ ( microlight ) meeting at Metz in May : sensibly it made no attempt to fly . |
| 2 | If both you and the other person can find something to laugh about together it paves the way for a harmonious transaction . |
| 3 | Suddenly it passed the point of no return and plunged downwards . |
| 4 | He admitted that the ending of PRT rebates might make it more costly to drill wells confirming the size of the field , but added : ‘ We look at the production side rather than exploration and we also look at how much it costs the Government . ’ |
| 5 | We need to know the costs of making the world a little safer , and we need to encourage society to make a decision about how much it values the benefits . |
| 6 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 7 | Now I promise you if you do as we tell you and your diary looks like , my white board if you like , every week for the next sort of twenty eight days , you will be successful , because if you do something consistently for twenty eight days , apparently it becomes a habit . |
| 8 | I was recently offered a second-hand hard drive — apparently it has a capacity of 33Mb , but I do n't know much else about it . |
| 9 | What is in that file is not as yet available to journalists , but apparently it contains an affidavit by an ex-policeman who was present at the discovery of the treasure . |
| 10 | And as for damage to an historic monument , to wit Dumbarton Rock , and the subject of the piece in The Observer , the photograph that appeared alongside it gives the lie to this self-generated argument . |
| 11 | Where the requirement for additional labour can be specified precisely , and the organisation knows precisely how long it requires the staff concerned , fixed-term contracts are most appropriate . |
| 12 | That 's how long it took the 18-year-old to score with his first touch on his Roker Park debut . |
| 13 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 14 | How long it took the teacher to become familiar with the control of the program and to consider how to use it with his pupils . |
| 15 | By comparing similar projects and their slopes along the graph , one learns how long it takes the organization to transform an idea into a business reality . |
| 16 | A stream of the same name drains a wide moorland above the fall and below it enters the head of Loch Glencoul . |
| 17 | Naturally it disturbs the farm . |
| 18 | ‘ It is obvious that ‘ reputation , ’ in the sense in which alone it concerns the subject of defamation , has relation to the particular person enjoying it . |
| 19 | Perhaps it takes an artist 's eye as well ; the cultivation of a quiet receptivity to the essence of a person beaming out like light from the chinks in the defences we all construct to protect ourselves . |
| 20 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps it oversimplifies the situation to treat these as two quite different uses of such expressions as ‘ I believe that seems , rather , that it is built into the meaning of ‘ I believe that … ’ that it hovers between expressing tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , and expressing belief or awareness that the speaker believes that it is so . |
| 22 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 23 | Perhaps it signifies the fact that the poem could apply to anyone in life for we are all at this moment in the process of dying even though presumably not as far forward on our journey as the poet . |
| 24 | Would you say that , perhaps it shows a flaw in the examination system if someone could do this ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Obviously it had a lot of film and limited time to show the mighty effort of the physicists of 13 countries in overcoming the obstacles to establish the complex , gargantuan apparatus for the experiment . |
| 27 | Obviously it allows the production of a very large number of exercise examples . |
| 28 | Obviously it takes a lot longer to do . |
| 29 | Now there 's a very good example of the way in which a domestic concern has an impact in terms of international events because obviously it put a strain on Anglo-U S relations . |
| 30 | Well c certainly I mean obviously it has an impact on on individuals who feel |