Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 2 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 3 | Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity . |
| 5 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 6 | Maturity , however , is not to be simplistically equated with absolute independence although it includes that capacity . |
| 7 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 8 | The test runs were also performed on a different machine so it makes little sense to compare timings . |
| 9 | He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life . |
| 10 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 11 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 12 | Play is many things to the child and it has many meanings . |
| 13 | I favour a long-reaching front guard because it has less distance to travel before it strikes the opponent , and it is able to intercept attacks closer to source . |
| 14 | The district committee , the A G E W district committee , er recognized that it was something that er was a confederation exercise because it covered all aspects of the workforce , and therefore you had er engineers and , and the sheet metal workers and electricians and pattern makers , everybody within the confed in Brothers was affected by it . |
| 15 | Indeed , he points out that traditionally the IEEE has not been swayed by big name support if it feels another technology is more meritorious . |
| 16 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 17 | It is the view of the group that it has another role in promoting dialogue on particular areas of concern : the comments on ‘ Data Sources and Research Methodology ’ produced last year are an example . |
| 18 | They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts . |
| 19 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 20 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 21 | Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal . |
| 22 | There are some newspapers which simply will not use a picture if it has any brand identification whatsoever . |
| 23 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 24 | Although he acknowledges that the moisture content is high , he says the extra drying costs are offset by catching the crop before it sheds any ears . |
| 25 | It is important not to soak potatoes , as this leaches out the vitamin , and not to overcook cabbage and other green vegetables , as heat gradually destroys Vitamin C. Rosehip tea is also an excellent source of this vitamin , as is fresh lemon juice , which is permissible on this diet as it contains little sugar . |
| 26 | I mean I I had the guitar stuff done within an hour but it getting all vocals over-dubbed and doubling everything up and then , it took forever to mix it together . |
| 27 | I 'd have hoped the England team would have been selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more |
| 28 | ‘ I would have hoped teams were selected on quality and experience but it seems those qualities are not important any more . |
| 29 | Some managers are convinced that PRP will improve performance and raise income , but there 's hardly any evidence that it produces any improvements . |
| 30 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . |