Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 2 | Since then it has expanded and this year Stoddard designers were invited to participate . |
| 3 | First , it has meant that those genes are favoured that have the property of ‘ cooperating ’ with those other genes that they are likely to meet in circumstances that favour cooperation . |
| 4 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 5 | for each database details file in turn , it checks to see if that file already exists and only creates the file if it does not exist . |
| 6 | It means realising that any imbalance between our physical , emotional , mental and spiritual selves causes a loss of inner harmony and a sense of dis-ease . |
| 7 | Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | As we shall see in the following chapter , this does not necessarily mean that the interests of farmers and landowners are no longer dominant in rural society , but it does mean that this dominance has increasingly to be carried out by reaching an accommodation with these new conditions . |
| 9 | ‘ But it does mean that some people have to wait as much as three hours . |
| 10 | It is an imbalanced situation at the moment , it does mean that some investigators are doing types of work which |
| 11 | ‘ However it does expect that all elements of the system should be identified and a specification provided ’ , says its report . |
| 12 | This single value can not be used statistically when comparing chemistry with geology , but it does suggest that some elements of PhD research are diffused into the literature in a much more widespread manner than could be expected by simple inspection of the titles of papers . |
| 13 | This single value can not be used statistically when comparing chemistry with geology , but it does suggest that some elements of Ph D research are diffused into the literature in a much more widespread manner than could be expected by simple inspection of the titles of papers . |
| 14 | It does seem that some people would consider themselves natural and enthusiastic readers , while others need persuasion and encouragement to do anything other than ‘ dip ’ into a book . |
| 15 | In conclusion , it does seem that some people were born to be fat , but are only able to be fat because of the relatively affluent society in which they live . |
| 16 | I mean , it 's said that some English and some Dutch fans are getting together to plan trouble . |
| 17 | That the hunting fraternity have passed the word round that it to remove your business because it 's rumoured that that person is involved with er er people like me . |
| 18 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |