Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |
| 2 | But Ferguson insists it is not too late for United to get back in the hunt . |
| 3 | Hawking thinks it can go either way but we will never know . |
| 4 | Constituency secretary Rita Taylor insists it is otherwise . |
| 5 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 6 | But Harwell insists it was only a minor leak and the public was n't in danger . |
| 7 | We shall continue to do that until Mr. MacSharry understands it . |
| 8 | The band 's press coverage has generally been excellent and Houghton thinks it is a consequence of the group 's organised , professional outlook . |
| 9 | Mick Houghton thinks it was a mistake to line up Wells with the band . |
| 10 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 11 | Do you realise that , when Lisa has it right |
| 12 | Gassendi accepts it too . |
| 13 | Through a week long campaign on both Max-Am and RFM stations it is possible to reach a large audience in the Lothians . |
| 14 | If you 're looking for solid strength , easy handling and workability , fire- , sound- and moisture-prevention , FERMACELL has it all in one . |
| 15 | Only the longing for meat ( some commentators have called it a lust , but the Hebrew does not pass that judgement ) , the claim that their appetite is gone , or their throats are dry , or , as the RSV has it , their strength is dried up ( the Hebrew will sustain all those translations ) , and an unspecified complaining about their misfortunes . |
| 16 | I 'm just not persuaded Marcus has it in him to be at that level of intensity ’ |
| 17 | However , where another company is making the same material close to where ICI needs it — or vice versa — it makes sense to do a deal . |
| 18 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 19 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 20 | The Can Crusher King wants it . |
| 21 | It has important implications in this context of group psychology , for Freud thinks it helps to make sense of the emotional activity in groups . |
| 22 | Dickie laughs it off |
| 23 | Despite a liberal peppering of designer labels — like Ghost and Helen Storey as well as her own Pat Young label — in her wardrobe , Pat insists it does n't have to cost the earth to look good . |
| 24 | ‘ Angalo thinks it matters if it 's true . ’ |
| 25 | FMCG thinks it has found four preconditions that greatly enhance a merger 's chances of success . |
| 26 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 27 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 28 | Taken by Phillips looks for Pearce left Oldfield wins it back for Leicester though . |
| 29 | Now Mill accepts that representative democracy can be as bad as Russo supposes it is , but there are aspects of Mill 's views which make him sound very much like Russo as well . |
| 30 | The legend about the making of Letter To Brezhnev starts it off . |