Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it became heretical to deny that God could have created other worlds , it was as dangerous to say that He had . |
| 2 | I fixed a poor nut in a flared pocket , and although it seemed unlikely to hold , attached a sling and stood in it . |
| 3 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 4 | Although it seems pointless to reiterate the immense journalistic gaffs that screamed from most music papers ( Smiths tour dates etc ) it was their beloved NME who broke the official story first . |
| 5 | In view of the importance of language in education , the authors also suggest that the BPVT might be used to assess scholastic aptitude , although it seems unwise to rely solely on one test for this purpose . |
| 6 | NO SOONER had the new organisation ‘ After Dark Railtours ’ sent off their advertisement for publication than it became necessary to cancel the operation . |
| 7 | I have an appointment with Dr Dingle at 5 o'clock , so it seemed pointless going back to the Oxfordshire cottage last night . |
| 8 | There were no warnings of Fun Runs , protest marches , street carnivals or charity pram races , so it seemed safe to cut through the City and head for Kent direct , rather than heading east and using the Dartford Tunnel . |
| 9 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 10 | One student had some ebony so it seemed natural to try a set of bagpipes . |
| 11 | When I bought him he had been ridden in an ordinary jointed snaffle , so it seemed sensible to stick to the mouthpiece with which he was familiar . |
| 12 | Early capitalism needed more labour power , so it became uneconomic to kill and mutilate offenders . |
| 13 | ‘ 16-bit ’ audio has a signal-to-noise ratio which comfortably exceeds the full dynamic range of an orchestra , so it became possible to record orchestral music without any need to compress its dynamic range . |
| 14 | In reality of course the effect of individual measures depends upon the combinations in which they are used , so it becomes important to test packages of improvements against each other and against control areas in which no changes have been made . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , detailed evidence for the nature of these connections is limited , so it remains impossible to estimate how many of the inhabitants were involved in farming as opposed to other occupations . |
| 16 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
| 17 | The two machines most affected by this issue are the PC and Macintosh so it seems appropriate to examine the pros and cons in some detail . |
| 18 | Similarly the priest acts as a ‘ representative ’ to God on our behalf as human beings rather than as women or men specifically ; so it seems appropriate to have both women and men performing this representative role . |
| 19 | Jean or Jeannie Symonds was still working in Skinners in 1913 , left the trade for a few years but was readmitted in 1927 , so it seems safe to assume that she spent much of her working life in the printing trade and did not marry . |
| 20 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 21 | He walked along the same three or four streets twice until it seemed pointless to continue . |
| 22 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 23 | If it is dry and unyielding we automatically chew it until it becomes comfortable to swallow . |
| 24 | If it feels easy to raise fresh equity from shareholders then dividend pay-outs will be high , for managers can easily ask for the money back again . |
| 25 | ‘ If it feels good do it ’ was the carnal end ; ‘ sexual enjoyment as personal fulfilment ’ was the higher end . |
| 26 | The long term significance of using fibroblasts and skin grafting will emerge if it becomes possible to use very large inserts of genes coding for hormones , with associated sequences which allow response to physiological controls : for instance , inserting the entire normal insulin gene into fibroblasts and hoping that there will be a physiological insulin response . |
| 27 | However , occasionally , if it proves impossible to measure any one of the factors in the age equation accurately , no TL date for a site may be obtained at all . |
| 28 | If it proves necessary to restrain a client 's arms or legs , they should be held above and below the main joint . |
| 29 | If it proves possible to develop useful modelling links between financial and strategic analyses , DCF will be a device for simplifying and summarizing — quite apart from its theoretical justification . |
| 30 | And if it seemed surprising to reflect that the supremely versatile Hampshire trainer has not yet struck in our Classic races , it was even more incredible to learn from the man himself that Dead Certain 's victory in the richest two-year-olds race ever run in this country was his first success in a group one event . |