Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 Although it looks from this as though each word has its own history , certain generalizations can be based on these figures .
2 Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis .
3 Well it must get hotter than it does in this house for a start !
4 Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom .
5 But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way .
6 I have given them the danger peak flow value of 100 , and if it falls below this they will come to casualty .
7 he would n't of told it if it gone on this
8 Every day Ninagawa tried to destroy Arashi 's Kabuki education and every day Arashi ended up crying , saying ‘ If it continues like this I shall die . ’
9 The new subject of International Relations must find the best ways of making leaders aware of the dysfunctional nature of war , or , if it failed in this , appeal directly to the populations concerned .
10 If it stays like this we ent goin' to have much school at all , ’ and he grinned with pleasure .
11 ‘ If the spirit continues to live after the death of the body , ’ he said to himself , ‘ is it so very surprising if it remains in this world for a time ? ’
12 If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week .
13 At that point , it could be doing all sorts of weird things , and you 'd think oh , I 've got this wonderful graph and I plotted a lot of points close together , so I know my sketch was right , because it looked like this funny W thing or M or something
14 However , we aim to send off airmail abroad on the working day after it is posted , and to deliver incoming airmail on the working day after it arrives in this country .
15 The validity of a patent still turns mainly upon the question whether it complies with this enactment .
16 So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting .
17 Before it got to this stage there would undoubtedly have been letters flying between the two .
18 I , I was just going to say that the county surveyor said that everything comes to this committee before anything else happens , but of course it goes to the press before it comes to this committee and that shows with , with the
19 but before it comes to this meeting
20 When it happens at this stage many mothers receive little sympathy because there may be no visible signs of loss .
21 Well that , I could n't believe it when it fell over this morning .
22 As for the economy , when it hurts in this recession , the pain is felt most — in a way that is most unfair — by the same families and communities who felt the worst pain in every other recession .
23 He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’
24 It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall .
25 Political practice was condemned when it went beyond this constitutional state of affairs .
26 Pannick is in many respects a mild reformer : more of a Gorbachev than a Yeltsin when it comes to this version of the one-party state .
27 ‘ Sorry , but I 'm definitely a coward when it comes to this sort of thing . ’
28 so when it comes to this morning , you
29 And so it seems self-evident that the subject of language should also draw on a cognate disciplinary source even though it happens in this case to have the different name of linguistics .
30 However , the state pension is still tied to the ages of 60 and 65 , though it looks like this will change after the next general election , as a result of pressure from the European Court rulings outlined above and , in particular , their impact on the private pension industry .
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