Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has it most elegantly furnished , ’ said Sophia enthusiastically . |
| 2 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 3 | Its impact on the public was enormous ; and among the figures it most deeply influenced was Albert Schweitzer . |
| 4 | Here was the Labour Party reverting to its old self , a better self , yes , than the monster it became under the demonic spell of Tony Benn ; here was a party responsive once more to its own people , the people it so shamefully betrayed at two successive general elections since 1979 , but a party — as somebody once said of the SDP - ‘ promising a better yesterday ’ . |
| 5 | The insect can now spend the calories that it so assiduously collected and stored when it was a larva . |
| 6 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 7 | They were surprised to see it so badly protected . |
| 8 | His relations gave him up , deploring his French expedition and the revolutionary sympathies it so clearly implied , and despairing that he would ever take the opportunities available to him for making a career in the Church or the law . |
| 9 | Despite the crudity of this message , it was extremely popular as a rallying cry because , in calling for shared community values , it so neatly combined Liberal and Conservative fears about the threat from urban democracy . |
| 10 | To see it so easily removed , and with the complicity of the union , was disturbing . |
| 11 | Some of it was charmingly primitive , some of it so exotically painted it took your breath away . |
| 12 | Thomson knocks it in quickly headed away by Phillips . |
| 13 | Without tampering with the deviant sentence itself , we can investigate the effects of placing it in variously elaborated discourse contexts . |
| 14 | Blue watchers are saying that IBM chief John Akers will be out by March or April and that the company in its infinite wisdom will give the job to one of those retired IBMers it just just brought back from the pasture , probably Kaspar Cassoni . |
| 15 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 16 | The all-or-nothing spoils of an election victory and the method of election encouraged ( if it not always produced ) a contest between two major parties . |
| 17 | Is it not far fetched and fanciful to regard lay-offs and redundancies as cleverly disguised methods of electing to consume more leisure ? |
| 18 | However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another . |
| 19 | It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France . |
| 20 | It not only covered ships passing to and fro through the Strait , but also included reports of Argentine air strikes , naval activity , including the sinking of the Belgrano , and even references to the British helicopter that had landed on the coast of the Magellan Strait almost opposite Punta Arenas , and had been destroyed by its pilot . |
| 21 | Was the poor relief paid to able-bodied workers over-generous to the extent that it not only created a dependency culture by reducing the incentive to work , but put a premium on early marriage and on childbirth ? |
| 22 | It not only secured jobs which might otherwise have been lost but also created 80 more . |
| 23 | Last year it not only opposed these proposals , it sent Alex , er a T U C hack if there ever was one , |
| 24 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |
| 25 | According to Mrs Whitehouse , it not only condoned , but advocated , teenage sex , and finally ‘ brought out into the open , in no uncertain fashion , the nature of the contemporary assault upon the young and upon the ethical structure which should support them ’ . |
| 26 | Arguably , Macao would worry less about its future were it not constantly exposed to the nervousness of Hong Kong across the water . |
| 27 | Were it not better done as other use to sport with Amaryllis in the shade , or with the tangles of Nayera 's hair . ’ |
| 28 | And furthermore , went on the priest , was it not so proven by Holy Scripture ? |
| 29 | Has it not possibly occurred to Mr Marshall that , without the audit , one could reduce one 's prices significantly and , if one is efficient , make rather more profit , providing clients with a service that they in fact desire ? |
| 30 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |