Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It rather sounds that way to me . ’ |
| 2 | But it rarely happens that way . |
| 3 | This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium . |
| 4 | Rasbora caudimaculata the Red Scissortail can be a trickly fish to acclimatise to aquarium life , but once well established it rarely gives further problems . |
| 5 | It blatantly encourages young people to live on credit which is extremely undesirable , and brought about by their greed in getting people to buy their goods in every possible manner . |
| 6 | Its domination resides in the fact that it keeps the economy going , without which the whole society would collapse , and in the fact that it thereby imposes certain restrictions on other practices . |
| 7 | The acquirer should not agree to a clause which states that if by completion it is aware of a breach of warranty and it still elects to proceed to completion it thereby waives any claim for damages . |
| 8 | On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible . |
| 9 | Chairman , Chairman , I think that 's an excellent idea and I think one to erm , prove ways of cost saving is to involve erm , more nursery education , because one sum spent before five , it apparently costs six pounds or its equivalent . |
| 10 | It apparently sets great store by creating business and completing assignments relatively quickly . |
| 11 | And it only courses one year 's duration maximum one year . |
| 12 | The trouble is it only does ten miles to the gallon . ’ |
| 13 | Well yes , but it only represents two percent of G D P in this country it 's , it 's insignificant . |
| 14 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 15 | Cable should n't be run under a carpet unless it 's suitably protected — it only takes one stiletto heel to bring your network down ! |
| 16 | Above The vulnerable beauty of Killary harbour : ‘ It only takes one fool to drop a barrel of chemicals , ’ Peter Mantle says , ‘ and we 're all wiped out . ’ |
| 17 | It only takes one lapse and a match can undergo a total transformation — there must be no slip-ups , ’ adds McGrath . |
| 18 | But , it only takes one car ! |
| 19 | ‘ It only takes one fanatic , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said heavily . |
| 20 | There 's an old saying : ‘ It only takes one spark to start a fire . ’ |
| 21 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 22 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
| 23 | Simply peg out the design , wind on the warp thread and get weaving — it only takes five minutes . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 25 | This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies . |
| 26 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
| 27 | She puts it in , and you ask her all questions about , she tells you it about it , and it has to be , and it only drinks orange squash , cos that 's wh what only Marie only drinks . |
| 28 | She goes , it only drinks orange squash . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 30 | Violence of any sort solves nothing — it only breeds more violence . |