Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 2 | One recent paper showed that cholinergic stimulation does not evokes this kind of propagated activity , although it does increase segmental contractions . |
| 3 | The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily . |
| 4 | It took hundreds of millions of years to evolve these abilities , longer , perhaps , than it has taken human beings to evolve from fish . |
| 5 | Safer sex can also protect you from other sexually transmitted diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease , cervical cancer , herpes and chlamydia , and of course unwanted pregnancy , so it does have other advantages for us in terms of our sexual health and future well being . |
| 6 | If the one about the little drummer boy under Richmond Castle has appeared once it has appeared 1000 times , which is 1000 times more than anybody has heard the strains of the drum from under the place . |
| 7 | This computer is a pretty pathetic one basically and it ca n't hold very much information programme and so once it 's had five records fed into it 's memory it 's full up which is pretty pathetic given the size of each record . |
| 8 | The agency can not start work on a claim until it has received these documents . |
| 9 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 10 | The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed . |
| 11 | If it does happen different officers will be used to deal with the two groups , so the cross-fertilisation theory does n't hold water . |
| 12 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 13 | So if it , if it 's got six volts left , it would n't be dead would it ? |
| 14 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |
| 15 | So if it 's got ten times the voltage , you 'll get ten ten times the current through . |
| 16 | At each mealtime eat enough to satisfy your appetite , even if it means having second helpings of vegetables . |
| 17 | Annabelle 's father insists that any furniture order is delivered the same day , even if it means driving fifty miles and doing the driving and shifting himself . |
| 18 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 19 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 20 | summer , I suppose it 's not meant for summer cos it 's got long sleeves . |
| 21 | Cos it 's got thermal bricks on . |
| 22 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 23 | ‘ More and more women are considering this type of career because it does offer equal opportunities . |
| 24 | It 's really quite misguided because it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 25 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 26 | The only difference is he 's had a few thousand extra because it 's got two kitchens and two bathrooms . |
| 27 | I do not advocate using a glossy varnish , because it tends to give false readings as you try to shot the float down . |
| 28 | Many comments contended that LIFO is conceptually flawed because it fails to assign current costs to inventories held and so distorts the balance sheet . |
| 29 | ‘ Ageism ’ is objectionable , not because it means admitting these connections , but because it means treating old people — or children — badly . |
| 30 | It is functional because it serves to integrate various groups in society . |