Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like other members of its family , the weed contains a powerful toxin , caelerphenyn , but scientists do not yet know if it poses a danger to human health . |
| 2 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 3 | Pyramid says it is happy enough with the specifications for MIPS ' next-generation R5000 and R10000 but says it 'll wait until it sees the things before it believes the projections . |
| 4 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 5 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 6 | The Minister asks what Labour will do when it gets the chance to govern . |
| 7 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 8 | What the high-speed camera does n't show as it freezes the action is that the top pros have the skill to make the clubhead catch up with their hands and arrive at the same time at impact … as when at address . |
| 9 | In the way it is said that the Tour de France does not really begin until it reaches the Alps , the cognoscenti contend that the first 63 holes are jockeying for position . |
| 10 | Similarly , the relativist stance does not work unless it makes an exception of itself which denies its own principle . |
| 11 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 12 | The cannon ball does not stop where it hits the ground , but bounces straight forward and cuts a line through any targets in the way . |
| 13 | And though I can not return until it pleases the gods to end the world , I have never ceased to long for it . |
| 14 | " If you throw it up in the air , " the elfin one said , " it will evaporate before it reaches the ground . |
| 15 | Instead of straightening out the bends on railways the train would tilt as it entered a curve . |
| 16 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Did your watch stop when it hit the floor , Dad ? ’ asked the little boy . |
| 18 | Mr Rushdie added : ‘ In any political issue silence is always the biggest mistake you can make because it gives the initiative to the adversary . |
| 19 | We do recognise establishment factors , that is adhesions in this part of the process and it is very clear that the capsule is one of the factors which allows the organism to pe , persist because it helps the organism to resist phagocytosis . |
| 20 | That value is small compared with the potential value that a search firm would have if it had a market quotation ; there would be a significant number of new millionaires were that to happen . |
| 21 | " Let it snow till it reaches the chimney-pots , " he says to himself . |
| 22 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 23 | Thirdly , the faster the clicks are emitted , the more up-to-date information the bat will receive as it negotiates the obstacles in the cave and dodges through the branches and creepers of the night forest . |
| 24 | He coughed and spat some phlegm into the fire , hearing it sizzle as it hit the coals . |
| 25 | He takes a drag on his cigarette and taps the ash between his legs , hearing a faint hiss as it hits the water . |
| 26 | I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer . |
| 27 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |
| 28 | And he did n't know whether to grin or grimace when it produced a point-saver from Wright after a link-up between Steve Bould and Lee Dixon . |
| 29 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 30 | Lilly will not say whether it found a conflict in the evidence for accumulation it presented to CSM on 7 October 1981 . |