Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because it luckily missed houses , they are just carrying on . ’ |
| 2 | In terms of delivery , curiously , it most resembled milk , and in 1990 these two products , uniquely , were still delivered fresh — and perishable — each morning to the doorstep . |
| 3 | In this sense , Labour 's respect for the constitution and its willingness to collaborate with an increasingly strong State against ‘ extremism ’ of the Left as well as the Right did not save Britain from fascism : it merely helped capital at the expense of the working class . |
| 4 | Is it just called Pebble Mill that programme at one o'clock ? |
| 5 | It was no different from learning the piano or the ukelele ; it just needed practice . |
| 6 | ‘ Servant ’ was the word people also used for client groups attached to Zuwaya lineages ; it generally implied dependence , a conditional existence or belonging . |
| 7 | The North American mink , he says , has fitted into the niche which would otherwise have been occupied by the European mink had it ever reached Britain . |
| 8 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 9 | The basic assumption of this form of life , extending from school to university , was that imaginative literature was inherently valuable , and that it was valuable because it pleasurably conveyed emotion and profound insights into the life of things . |
| 10 | The building itself had changed little , apart from a lick of paint here and there ; it still reminded Donna of a huge terraced house . |
| 11 | Though it once supported salmon and sea-trout runs , little flourishes in it now . |
| 12 | 2 The current Craft Council exhibition , Put of the Frame , brought to mind this ambivalence ; it also stirred memories of an earlier exhibition … |
| 13 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 14 | The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 . |
| 15 | The health authority possessed a day hospital for elderly psychiatric patients , situated within the borough ; it also provided day care on two of the long-stay wards , plus some short-stay beds on these wards . |
| 16 | The bill allowed shops to stay open longer , introduced a fourth shift in industry , and allowed workers in 28 ailing state industries to be laid off ; it also contained measures to liberalize the commercial banking sector , to deprive the state telephone and telegraph company of its monopoly , and to encourage private enterprise and foreign investment . |
| 17 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 18 | ‘ It nearly brought tears to my eyes , ’ confessed Dr Phil Gates yesterday in recalling the moment that he had a polythene bag in front of him which contained £250,000 in old notes . |
| 19 | Buzz did n't know what was going on , but she certainly smelled dishonesty : it probably involved fraud , and it probably involved Adam . |
| 20 | ) . The Southern Uplands Fault is believed to enter Northern Ireland around Carrickfergus and , although no obvious fault line is recognised , it probably affected sedimentation during at least Carboniferous and Triassic time . |
| 21 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 22 | This scheme — which was widely adopted by colonial administrations right across the continent — killed two birds with one stone : it both raised money and it produced a large labour force which had previously been occupied with growing food for their families . |
| 23 | In a related way , the religious morality of repealers was not merely a passive vehicle for feminist politics ; it actively empowered women and gave them the confidence to develop critical concepts . |
| 24 | Their trust in the Tsar himself remained unshaken : but it never entailed acceptance of their subordination to officialdom , the army , or the nobility . |