Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb -s] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Isotelus is typical of the North American continent , where it occurs in many localities . |
2 | Where it differs from such discourses ( those associated with Bateson ( pp. 81–2 ) and Wright ( p. 88 ) , for example ) is in Leavis 's insistence upon the " exercise of the sense of value … controlled by an implicit concern for a total value-judgement " , and based upon " familiar " literary works , " the nature and quality of which are immediately obvious " . |
3 | Although it grows to some 20cm in the wild it rarely achieves even half that size in the aquarium . |
4 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
5 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
6 | Well it must get hotter than it does in this house for a start ! |
7 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
8 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
9 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
10 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
11 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
12 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
13 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
14 | ‘ If it happens to both machines it 's obvious the common factor is you , yourself . ’ |
15 | A succession of full chords for wind and horns bears a rather oppressive resemblance to the sound of a harmonium if it continues for many bars without relief . |
16 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
17 | If it crosses over that line , being mad will turn into being a lawsuit . ’ |
18 | Notice that a convention is normally followed in which the current at a terminal is regarded as positive if it flows into that terminal . |
19 | For example , if the notion of human rights is a meaningful one ( itself in hot dispute ) , and if it extends to all humans , including the severely and terminally brain-damaged , then how could we logically fail to extend the notion to at least some animals ? |
20 | This claim is not a conscious , spoken claim ; if it gets to that stage , we have already left it too late . |
21 | Presumably we shall have a good chew at the clause in Committee , but if it remains in that form we shall certainly be unable to support the Bill on Third Reading . |
22 | ‘ If the spirit continues to live after the death of the body , ’ he said to himself , ‘ is it so very surprising if it remains in this world for a time ? ’ |
23 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |
24 | Is it correct to claim , as Marsh does , that aggression is ‘ the inflicting of physical hurt ’ with its associated aim of ‘ subduing or achieving dominance over a rival ’ ( 1978 : 33 ) or should one follow Eibl-Eibesfeldt 's broader definition and classify behaviour as aggressive ‘ if it leads to another party 's being hurt ; this includes not just physical hurt ( injury or destruction ) but any kind of hurt , including annoyance , taunts or insults ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) ? |
25 | Well you 're not gon na get , be able to get marks if it comes to that son ! |
26 | ‘ This piece was n't meant to denigrate feminism , and if it comes across that way , I think I failed . ’ |
27 | If it comes across any orifices , holes , crypts , or glands , it will , however , gladly occupy these , and there may then be a degree of tissue destruction . |
28 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
29 | Because it reproduces inside another cell in this parasitic way , erm , it does n't have to find a mate or even bother to split in half to reproduce by asexual means . |
30 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |