Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may not like this idea , because it veers away from established convention , but it 's quicker , plus it saves the hassle of breaking a string peg at an important moment and being left dangling , so to speak . |
| 2 | Prior to that date , it applied also to non-private customers . |
| 3 | Section 7(1) could be construed as applying to previous enactments , but it was argued that it applied also to subsequent enactments . |
| 4 | This was especially true of the Fire Service , our immediate neighbours , and it applied equally to those in the adjacent Gateshead Borough Police and Northumberland Constabulary , who were always talked of as being a lesser breed of mortals . |
| 5 | Lord Denning decided that if the clause was limited by its perceived object it applied only to such part of the GUS group as operated within the UK . |
| 6 | It was the first time that there had been a debate on the viability and the desirability of having an element of compulsory further education , which in theory was to enrol all adolescents , though in practice it applied mainly to those from the working class . |
| 7 | It plays heavily on indirectness– intimacy and common understanding . |
| 8 | Long may it stay just like that . |
| 9 | But in the second week television coverage of defence doubled to 12 per cent , and in the third week it doubled again to 26 per cent before almost disappearing from the bulletins in the fourth and fifth weeks . |
| 10 | Between 1801 and 1851 the area 's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921 , the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town 's development as a capitalist urban locality . |
| 11 | The nearest one can get to a level equivalence is to say that it is at roughly A Level standard , though it differs hugely from any actual A Level examination , and this comparison should not be taken too literally . |
| 12 | Only a little smaller than Great Grey Owl , from which it differs chiefly in dark eyes , unlined facial disc , and no black patch on chin . |
| 13 | It differs significantly from these texts , however , because Warren 's books still provide the most balanced approach for teaching organic synthesis at the undergraduate level , while The logic of chemical synthesis provides an outstanding perspective for postgraduate teaching . |
| 14 | It differs sharply from any of the published movements by this composer , however , in its brevity and in the sketchiness of the left-hand part , in which chords are indicated by figures rather than being written out . |
| 15 | Rachel sat there alone , staring blankly at the turquoise sea as it rippled softly on white sand . |
| 16 | The zone control valve was mounted on a horizontal range pipe so that the drop pipe from it passed vertically through three levels , an open-sprinkler being mounted at the head of each level . |
| 17 | Though applied to others of a given authority or holiness , it refers principally to one of the most influential personages in Ashkenazi ( eastern European ) Judaism , who followed the Palestinian traditions ( as opposed to the Babylonian ones represented in its version of the Talmud ) : Israel ben Eliezer ( Leonard 's spiritual forebear , after whom he was named ) — an 18th century Pole , the founder of the Hasidic movement ; one whose religious awareness was very close to that which inspired Leonard , his mother and his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein . |
| 18 | Bourdillon 's figure for this was ‘ the annual provision of not less than 250 volumes for lending and reference purposes per thousand population ’ , but the figure is not as uncomplicated as it seems , since it refers only to new books and not to stock revision ( for which no standard was given ) . |
| 19 | Texas Instruments said the decision to sign the non-exclusive agreement was based on several factors : first , the technology is available now ; second , the ARM core operates at low voltages and offers ‘ the best MIPS per Watt in the industry ’ — approximately 200 MIPS per Watt , compared with the AT&T Co Hobbit at 37 MIPS per Watt ; third , it integrates easily into larger chip designs ; fourth , it provides good price-performance — to buy chips in volume from Advanced RISC would cost less than $30 per unit ; fourth , the chip is tiny — an ARM6L has a die size of 5.9mm square — and there is a strong need in the automotive industry to reduce the size and weight of components . |
| 20 | There 's Lawrence now , a left-hander , down to the rear and this one he turns away and it goes straight to short leg and erm , everybody claps up and sits there well , well fielded there by Morris at short leg . |
| 21 | In fact , it goes exactly like this . |
| 22 | An Ur-freezer , it goes directly to zero and beyond without narrative deviation . |
| 23 | Oh well , they find a it goes all over this . |
| 24 | We expect it to fall again in 1993 , although $200 million has been earmarked for growth projects . |
| 25 | Its attempt to combine serious social comment with an escapist action movie format cause it to fall heavily between two stools . |
| 26 | so as it sits now between national curriculum |
| 27 | It was usually taken , particularly when combined as it often was with the adjective " extraordinary " , as indicating a status superior to that of the resident : it became rapidly in many states during the later seventeenth century the most widely used of all diplomatic titles . |
| 28 | Unigate 's attitude to the liquid milk market has changed markedly since it sold close to half its business to Dairy Crest four years ago . |
| 29 | It belongs somehow with those who hang around speed-boats and water skiers , and who think that Loch Lomond 's Duck Bay Marina is ‘ sporty ’ . |
| 30 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |