Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that ‘ civilised ’ society realised that science creates problems as well as solving them , it gladly turned to space-gods and their companions . |
| 2 | In it Little Gidding in Nicholas Ferrar 's time was lovingly described , with the introduction of an imaginary romance between Mary Collett and the novel 's hero . |
| 3 | And for your meteorological information , it rarely snows in Somerset in the summer . |
| 4 | Ed 's comment : While I agree with your comments in principle , Mr Huyton , it has to be said that Audrey Reid 's article in PFK also recommended shop or scrap glass but suggested getting it professionally cut to size . |
| 5 | Later , I gaze from the stern of the landing craft at the coast of Normandy , as it slowly slips from view , leaving me with the memory of those of the Brigade lying in shallow graves in the orchards and ditches of this part of France . |
| 6 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 7 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ We want to see it properly regulated with guidelines for doctors . ’ |
| 9 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 10 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 11 | When it eventually dawned on Liza that she must be pregnant , she began to panic . |
| 12 | By the late 1960s Pakistan had ceased to participate in military exercises within the framework of SEATO and CENTO and it eventually withdrew from SEATO . |
| 13 | But the fact that it eventually arrived in Germany was largely thanks to two German MPs , Ursula Seiler-Albring and Ina Albowitz . |
| 14 | It was insured by the charity organiser Ruth Hilali , and when it apparently disappeared in transit , more than £100,000 was paid by insurers into charity funds at the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 15 | It all does in fact make sense . ’ |
| 16 | It only helps at lessons . |
| 17 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 18 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 19 | or is it only to do with doors opening ? |
| 20 | But the Red Army was larger than Western forces in Europe , war could break out ‘ by accident ’ ( through the failure to manage a diplomatic crisis properly ) and a US guarantee — even if it only existed on paper — could provide a major psychological boost to West European morale . |
| 21 | Although it only cost about eightpence ha'penny an ounce then . |
| 22 | Usually , it only happens to grown-ups . |
| 23 | It only remains for miniaturisation , integration and market demand to reach the point at which the various elements can be drawn together into a single commercially viable device . |
| 24 | But it only explodes into violence when it has been suppressed . |
| 25 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 26 | Previously it only ran on VAX/VMS and DOS-based LAN environments . |
| 27 | It only works near cities where they have receiver/ transmitters . |
| 28 | It only remained for Terence Higgins ( Worthing ) to wrap up Serpell in moth balls , where it will remain until at least after the next election |
| 29 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 30 | In addition there were about 20 interesting and enlightening comments ranging from , " You can search on what you want with this if you just type in some buzz-words " to " It only looks for keywords — does n't analyse the search " The comments are given in full by Walker and Jones . |