Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it makes any difference , but it was n't planned . |
| 3 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 4 | And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but |
| 5 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether it makes any difference for the price you will get in the land , for the land , from a tenant , if you restrict his rights to use it . |
| 7 | Other more exotic applications for the device will appear as it undergoes further improvement . |
| 8 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 9 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 10 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 11 | Such an experience may encourage the doctor in question to attend a course in homoeopathy to see if it deserves further study . |
| 12 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
| 13 | Although not all doctors would agree that restless legs are attributable to caffeine , anyone suffering this condition should try avoiding caffeine for a while to see if it makes any difference . |
| 14 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 15 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 16 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 17 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 18 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 19 | The government insists that it will only be restarted if it passes stringent safety tests , and that a technical council composed of Russian , American , French and German experts will oversee its operation . |
| 20 | Meribeth often recommends standing up to make important telephone calls because it puts more energy into the voice . |
| 21 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 22 | Their jit jive music keeps the listener moving as it blends high energy , finger-picking good guitar melodies with deep African rhythms and percussion . |
| 23 | This figure is non-committal as to the precise mechanism likely to lead to the generation of passive margin upwarps as it illustrates secondary convection as well as non-uniform ( depth-dependent extension ) and the effects of lateral heat flow into unthinned lithosphere . |
| 24 | The wound is then debrided if it contains devitalised tissue . |
| 25 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 26 | From Philips ' point of view , DVI looks threatening because it enables full frame full motion video to be accessed from a standard CD-ROM . |
| 27 | The show has failed to appear in any TV popularity charts and eight of the original cast of virtual unknowns have been axed since it began last summer . |
| 28 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 29 | This study aimed to define the route whereby EGF gains access to the oesophageal epithelium , by immunohistochemical determination of the EGF distribution in biopsy specimens from healthy and diseased oesophageal mucosa , to determine whether it plays any role in the pathogenesis of oesophagitis . |
| 30 | The domestic water supply should be checked to determine whether it requires additional treatment before use . |