Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUYING territory rather than seizing it has honourable precedents among nations . |
| 2 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 3 | This involves a different type of responsibility as well , and to accept it takes real courage . |
| 4 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
| 6 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 7 | And burning it sends huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the air , adding to the ‘ Greenhouse Effect ’ that is already influencing world climates with such disastrous results . |
| 8 | I believe that continuing to hear the language of books as well as to see it gives developing readers a valuable resource in this domain . |
| 9 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |