Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then it has turned up in Kenyan tobacco plantations where safety precautions are impractical and widely ignored . |
| 2 | ‘ We included in our budget plans an estimate of seven per cent for the teachers ’ pay settlement and in fact it has turned out at 7.8 per cent . |
| 3 | It has spilled over into this tournament because the foreign players have won it . |
| 4 | With PASCAL , you have to prepare a whole program , and then you have to tell the computer to digest it , that 's called ‘ compiling it ’ , and then possibly it has to link in with other programs , and then you can run the program . |
| 5 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 7 | It has gone up by four , five and 10 times as much among our competitors , and the right hon. Gentleman is still not doing anything to bring Britain out of recession , to give us recovery . |
| 8 | It broadcast the opening speeches on each day of the debate on the Queen 's Speech in 1989 ( when televising started ) ; it has stayed on after 3.50 pm on some Tuesdays or Thursdays to cover important ministerial statements ; and it has had special editions to cover the Budget and other major debates . |
| 9 | A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six . |
| 10 | It has come up with five colour TXT systems each powered by a 40MHz Texas Instruments Inc TMS340 processor . |
| 11 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 12 | It has come down from 52 per cent . |
| 13 | It is looking to open further offices abroad too , to complement the distributor network it has set up across Western Europe , the Pacific Rim and Australia . |
| 14 | ‘ But it has to add up to six hours a day . |
| 15 | It has teamed up with Ungermann-Bass Inc to develop some of the interfaces to Emerald and says it is currently on the look-out for similar collaborations , which may take some of the financial strain from its development programmes . |
| 16 | International Telecom Japan Inc says that it intends to start a leased line service between Japan and Moscow this summer , becoming the only alternative on the route to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp : it has teamed up with Russian satellite services company RSCC . |
| 17 | The kind of language game in which we talk about ‘ the back of ’ something is one in which that expression has meaning because it has evolved out of all kinds of activity in which ‘ backs ’ exist and can be shown to exist , because verified either by our own movement through space-time or by that of other persons , or both . |
| 18 | Perceived as a change of means rather than ends , it has passed off without public discussion of the goals , methods or results . |
| 19 | It is not advisable to give the dog free run of the car , however , simply because it could damage the interior , by scratching the upholstery , for example , if it wants to come out at first light before you are awake . |
| 20 | The Marlborough , Massachusetts-based company will use Precision Architecture in future high-end machines which it plans to roll out in 1994 or 1995 . |
| 21 | In fact , as I write I realize that the whole mess of Primavera must be handed over to you — TAKE OVER THE WHOLE BLOODY THING and get this tremendous weight off my shoulders — change and edit the costumes , but not too much , as they are designed so as not to interfere with the movement of the ballet , as it includes curling up into small balls , rolling , lying etc . |
| 22 | Or fix it so it gets ripped out by one of the machines ? ’ |
| 23 | and it gets sent out to all the representatives and all the shops . |
| 24 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 25 | It keeps coming out at 70 SpecMarks , it says . |
| 26 | It seems to give up after that initial tug o'war , a common trait with most chub , and is soon safely in the net . |
| 27 | It seems to arise out of overwhelming compassion for the poor widow who was in the process of burying her only son . |
| 28 | ‘ And somehow it seems to fit in with this landscape too — perhaps it 's the sense of space … ’ |
| 29 | And it overflows coming down into another pond |
| 30 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |