Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it agrees to the other two bits of the resolution , the sanctions committee ( which has overseen the embargo since August ) would lift the export ban . |
| 2 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 3 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 4 | Hong Kong seems reluctant to take the pressure off China by letting the deadline slip unless it agrees to talks . |
| 5 | But a Washington court could stop the launch today , if it agrees with anti-nuclear activists that the space probe 's plutonium generators are unsafe , writes Mark Champion . |
| 6 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 7 | well he says he 'll tell me what he suggests and if it agrees with what I 've got I 'm a happy man are n't I . |
| 8 | Instead it agrees with the Government 's view , expressed in its document ‘ Sensible Drinking ’ , that these could penalise the moderate drinker , while problem drinkers would either continue drinking to excess and deprive their families of essentials or switch to cheaper or illicit drinks . |
| 9 | In the end , the chapter on Searle takes the reader through his thought showing where it agrees with , and where it diverges from , Austin . |
| 10 | It veers from pieces that sound stilted and scripted to free-form passages when the Jamesons hold what they consider to be a conversation . |
| 11 | This collection is a sampler only — there are no more than six poems from each poet — but it testifies to the way in which poetry can — and does — survive in the most unpropitious circumstances . |
| 12 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 13 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 14 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 15 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 16 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 17 | My records nee go it it plays for a bit , then it goes brurgh ! |
| 18 | It plays on our pride in our own free will . |
| 19 | It plays on your mind . |
| 20 | The book contains chapters such as ‘ Playing a round with nature ’ ( presumably it plays off scratch ) , as well as a roll call of courses which have worked with the environment in their design and management , namely Royal Troon , Royal St. David 's ( in Harlech ) , Tenby , Lindrick ( in South Yorkshire ) , Gleneagles ( which provides a habitat for , amongst others , kestrels , partridges , pheasants and roe deer ) , Luffenham Heath , Sundridge Park , Royal Birkdale , Woodhall Spa and Western Gailes . |
| 21 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 22 | It plays with Godard 's Une Femme est une Femme , made the following year , both graceful and romantic tributes to the MGM musical comedy , and to their vibrant stars , Anouk Amiee and Anna Karina . |
| 23 | It plays with Godard 's Une Femme est une Femme , made the following year , both graceful and romantic tributes to the MGM musical comedy , and to their vibrant stars , Anouk Amiee and Anna Karina . |
| 24 | Before the child is ‘ tamed ’ through its first ta'kwakomena lessons , it plays with a mixed-gender pack of free-roaming , small children . |
| 25 | Seymour features brilliant humour and some of the best puzzles and animation even seen in the arcade adventure , but it plays with all the style and grace of a drunken elephant ! |
| 26 | Instead it plays with the ‘ death of reading ’ , for novels have always relied on the reader to bring them to life . |
| 27 | It plays with dolls but can not get interested . |
| 28 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 29 | I thought I heard the music of fairies , which is believed to render men forever enthralled to wonderland , and it plays in a responsive mind all life long . |
| 30 | In particular , they point out that the phenomenon of monitoring can not be confined within the restricted role it plays in Monitor theory : |