Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Despite the fact that you agreed to it little more than twenty-four hours ago ? ’ |
| 2 | He 's done it on more than one occasion , ’ Silas admitted . |
| 3 | The resulting exposition is so authoritative that practitioners and the courts departed from it only rarely unless subsequent developments made this necessary . |
| 4 | Firm it down with the fingers well , if it is John Innes compost , but compress it only lightly if soilless . |
| 5 | Soviet leaders strove to convince the non-aligned states that Moscow had no objection to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact or the imposition of restraints on it so long as these measures applied equally to NATO . |
| 6 | I hope you 've enjoyed it , I hope you 've enjoyed it perhaps more than some of us dared to . |
| 7 | They said that ehm , if you get it in less than six . |
| 8 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 9 | She headed straight back towards Miss Honey 's house and she reached it in less than four minutes . |
| 10 | Well , it 's only a short distance , I know — you could have done it in less than five minutes in the daylight — but we wo n't see eleven o'clock again . |
| 11 | I try to do it in less than ten minutes , timing myself for practice , ’ said the 43-year-old bachelor . |
| 12 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 13 | New York cabbies are notorious for complaining but Danny , an old friend , who always seems to be around when I am ready to leave The Summit Hotel , assures me that business in one of the world 's busiest cities is worse than he had known it in more than 20 years . |
| 14 | I thought to myself well if I do n't write it down now cos that 's why I got back in my car . |
| 15 | As long as I know that I 'm right er and say well I 'm quite willing to look at the figures that you 've been given , but these are the figures that are right but I will look at them erm and I , and I certainly would n't er confront it much more than that . |
| 16 | Yeah well you 'll not get it much less than that . |
| 17 | His ball had gone into deep rough and I noticed he was walking toward it much faster than usual and he was talking to me faster . |
| 18 | Naturally , I 've been thinking it over ever since poor Sarah burst into my room this morning . |
| 19 | Citicorp has pursued it more energetically than most . |
| 20 | It may well be that they 're doing it , with er other ways of doing it and er that 's , that 's discussion , but I do actually think that there is sometimes something to be said , and I think a group can say it more easily than individual , is if you want something done , do it , but do n't come along and complain . |
| 21 | County court procedure may be simpler and , although there are some difficult aspects , the unrepresented litigant can handle it more easily than High Court procedure . |
| 22 | That it seems to me is the heart of the matter and he has expressed it more clearly than many Christian theologians . |
| 23 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |
| 24 | Unless the system can be shown to reproduce it more efficiently than any existing system it is probably not worth considering . |
| 25 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 26 | People aroused by the possibilities of social power will seek it more consistently than those who are not aroused by power . |
| 27 | See it once more as separate from yourself , then direct your consciousness back into your body as in Steps 9–11 . |
| 28 | On the seventh spawning they knocked the glass down again , while I was at school , but my Dad put it up again before all the eggs were eaten . |
| 29 | We , we have , it probably more than one place , but erm , there 's no guarantee that it 'll be there if you actually . |
| 30 | But she had begun the withdrawal and her synapses knew enough to carry it out even as thousands of her brain-cells died in the nova . |