Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It led him to spend endless hours in the House of Commons , far more than any Prime Minister for many years before , far more than any of his successors . |
2 | It led me to ponder two questions . |
3 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
4 | This model has enough structure built into it to enable us to answer interesting questions such as : ( i ) does the marginal utility of leisure decrease or increase with duration ? and ( ii ) do offer probabilities , unemployment benefit effects , and the conditional probability of leaving unemployment decrease or increase with duration ? |
5 | Thanks once again for a charming picture — it made me smile all day . |
6 | So the A fifty nine well let me put it let me put another question , does the A sixty one serve a similar function to the A fifty nine ? |
7 | Well correlation I 've just done that with all my children , you should be level six , no good doing it , you should be it Want you to do two pieces of work for Monday and all the same level , so there 's an extra two you 've got to do . |
8 | The point about the shop is that erm it sells things on a medieval theme and more specifically it has we have this undertaking that if you see it in the house , you can buy it in the shop . |
9 | Well er as I say I think , er if if if the County Council are are insisting that any new settlement erm should be self contained , I think one would need to see what that definition is before we can be clear as to whether or not it has it has strategic implications . |
10 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |
11 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
12 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
13 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
14 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
15 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
16 | Jane Camp is an enthusiast for the medium because it allows her to control wet-into-wet washes and paint out mistakes more easily than when working with watercolours |
17 | Finally , the mass media also have an interest in keeping alive this potent myth , for it allows them to present political events to voters — consumers in simplified and personalized narrative forms which can be readily understood . |
18 | It allows us to set numerous codes for different types of absence , such as dentist 's appointment , doctor etc . |
19 | Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals . |
20 | Then we shall show that this more subtle procedure is a valid way of estimating a macroeconomic model which incorporates rational expectations and that it allows us to test rational expectations conditional on the economic model with which it is combined . |
21 | I actually would hope that we would keep our allowances standard , because it allows us to do other things . |
22 | This simple observation is crucial to the argument of this chapter , as it allows us to question ingrained assumptions concerning the superiority and greater significance of language over other forms of expression . |
23 | If we look at this client server model today one of the most significant advantages it delivers is that it allows us to run different kinds of applications on different computers . |
24 | The advantage of the design is that it allows us to exclude other explanations . |
25 | Its dual chart is an attractive option in that it allows you to link two pie or bar chart charts or a pie and a bar chart — as illustrated here ( DUALGRPH ) It also offers Word charts — a variety that it is unusual to find in a spreadsheet but very welcome given that you can use the graphics facilities of SuperCalc 5.5 to prepare slides suitable for use as a presentation to an audience . |
26 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
27 | There seems to be something amiss with DR DOS 6 if it allows you to produce protected files in this way . |
28 | A staple gun is also worth having , since it allows you to make instant fixings of thin sheet materials , fabrics and floorcoverings , with one hand free to position the work while the other fires the staples . |
29 | As it happens we got that shipment delivered eventually though some of the perishables had gone off . |
30 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |