Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 2 | I have no personal experience of the Christos technique , but apparently it has achieved some interesting results including the ability of the patient to give a detailed account of a previous life . |
| 3 | Janice said ‘ Basically it means deferring any dismantling of the irradiated or contaminated plant until 35 years after station closure , so that when the time comes for removal , its level of activity will have diminished further , the dose rate for staff involved in dismantling will be much reduced . |
| 4 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
| 5 | My goodness , how long it takes to write all this , this life of mine . |
| 6 | At the same time it became increasingly apparent that research using instruments like the PARI was not producing clear-cut relationships : on the basis of attitudinal measures alone it has proved difficult to predict child personality . |
| 7 | Perhaps it had grown fatter since she had last stroked it . |
| 8 | Lisa took a deep breath , crossing her fingers — perhaps it had sounded worse than it was ! — and forced her eyes to slide round towards the Bentley . |
| 9 | Obviously it has had serious consequences in this case . |
| 10 | Only it 's got this separate bit for trolley loading it 's got written on it . |
| 11 | One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack — his features still completely impassive . |
| 12 | They all have interest in the scheme so that we would believe the thing to do would be to have at least an equal number of employer appointed trustees and employee appointed trustees and the employee in this , I 'm using it globally , so it does cover all three groups and we also believe it would be advisable because er inevitably the e er members er probably would n't know a lot about pensions themselves to have an independent trustee from an independent company who specialises in pensions and pensions laws and could a advise them on exactly what the law says and what they they 're legal duties etcetera are . |
| 13 | So it does integrate straight back to that . |
| 14 | It 's quite a nice little town , everybody knows everybody , and they do n't like to feel that they 're going to be outside of the sort of social circle that they move in , so it does have that effect in keeping them under control . |
| 15 | So it had seemed better all round that they should go . |
| 16 | So it had seemed sensible for Ross to have his old bedroom , while she 'd been far too weary to care where she slept . |
| 17 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 18 | Erm so it had to have all the lighting , official lighting for the continent and so on and so forth . |
| 19 | So it decides to pay first , asserting that it will challenge the lawfulness of the demand in litigation . |
| 20 | So it helps to put that in the brackets . |
| 21 | So it 'd got this eggshell in the bottom and they used they would work a a mast a sail on it . |
| 22 | So it pays to keep all of them well out of the reach of young , inquisitive hands . |
| 23 | Yes , I think it probably is. back to page er twenty thirty three two abstentions so it 's carried forty two thirty three in total . |
| 24 | So it 's got two hundred there now . |
| 25 | So it 's got enough power stored in that battery to do that . |
| 26 | However that myth has been laid to rest for good in Germany 's pedestrianised city centres and unsurprisingly it has proved unfounded in the experimental areas too . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it does show considerable misjudgement to make films that had little to do with popular taste at a time when it was so difficult for British filmmakers to find an audience . |
| 28 | But nevertheless it does contain one or two quite hard requirements which we have to meet if we 're going to obtain and retain the certificate . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it does seem undesirable that our present institutional framework should be beyond the scope of effective challenge by either political or legal means . |
| 30 | Nevertheless it has proved difficult to establish whether the resulting volume changes are sufficient to shatter rock , even in desert environments where diumal temperature ranges on rock surfaces can easily exceed 30 C. Since rock is a poor conductor of heat a thermal gradient is created when the surface is warmed . |