Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it agrees with the Government 's view , expressed in its document ‘ Sensible Drinking ’ , that these could penalise the moderate drinker , while problem drinkers would either continue drinking to excess and deprive their families of essentials or switch to cheaper or illicit drinks . |
| 2 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |
| 3 | In addition to these requirements a responsible person may be required to keep the supervisor informed of his address if it differs from the child 's ( para 3(3) ) . |
| 4 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 5 | Dropping the useless stems , she used all her strength to swing her briefcase in a wide arc , bringing it crashing into the man 's stomach . |
| 6 | It 's hardly more noticeable than the fact that , as the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman likes to point out , the cinema audience is sitting in total darkness for 50 minutes of that time , while the projector beam is masked during the change of frame — the indispensable ‘ intermittent movement ’ of movie film as it goes through the projector 's gate . |
| 7 | I think we might even wash it before it goes in the David 's mug is quiet compared to Oh have you bitten your mouth again ? |
| 8 | When Gary Mackay scored that legendary goal for Scotland against Bulgaria , how big of an inroad did it make into the Republic 's capital of Jammy Breaks ? |
| 9 | It amalgamated with a boys ' secondary modern in September 1975 to form a mixed comprehensive but retained a strong grammar school ethos amongst a section of the senior teachers . |
| 10 | This distinction should be preserved ( even though the Russian verb is not quite square with the English ) , since it belongs to the novel 's overall life-against-logic argument : in theory the student would kill her , but in fact he wo n't . |
| 11 | It is not possible to describe the whole service , how it fits into the Institute 's structure , and its relationship with the chartered accountants ' Joint Ethics Committee within the constraints of one short article . |
| 12 | It arose from the child 's writing , from her awareness of audience and her commitment to communicating with them . |
| 13 | If there is any reason for hope , it lies in the world 's lack of interest . |
| 14 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 15 | Conceivably it contributed to the family 's mystique . |
| 16 | ‘ When you make your mouth go like that , ’ said Sam , ‘ it looks like a baboon 's bottom . |
| 17 | And after that we have a man called Heg who I presume is a man anyway , it looks like a man 's name . |
| 18 | It looks like a school-child 's coat . |
| 19 | What with all the forms to fill out and papers to file , it looks like the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition wo n't be formally closed until June , two or three months later than they originally figured : they should have the required stockholders meeting scheduled in the next 30 days . |
| 20 | It is diverted to the alien nest where it drops into the cuckoo 's mouth the food that had been destined for its own young . |
| 21 | It sank into the Whale 's glistening skin just behind its head . |
| 22 | It starts with the artist 's first major — and arguably finest — graphic work , the illustrated book Die traumenden Knaben produced in 1907 as a children 's book for the Wiener Werkstatte , and includes graphic work from throughout the artist 's career . |
| 23 | It referred to the Palestinians ' struggle for " sovereignty " and envisaged a future " confederation between the two states of Palestine and Jordan , which can be a cornerstone for our security and prosperity " . |
| 24 | It depends on the individual 's attitudes , needs and priorities which clearly vary from person to person and from time to time . |
| 25 | It rests on what is bound to be , to some extent , subjective assessment , as in playing a game when there are rules and communal experience to draw on , but ultimately it depends on the players ' awareness and skill . |
| 26 | No , it depends on the game pl play is . |
| 27 | Equally , it depends on the horse 's intensely social nature , his own understanding of the use of visual cues , and his desire to stay close to those who make him feel safe . |
| 28 | This means that it depends on the host 's cells ' own energy-producing system to provide for its own growth and reproduction . |
| 29 | This is an opportunity to be built on when it occurs as the insurer 's preference for its own panel members is bound to be an initial issue ; at the same time as asserting the client 's right to choose , panel membership can be discussed . |
| 30 | It occurs in the Earth 's lower atmosphere . |