Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothing else it shows that our own irrationality is shared by others . |
| 2 | for however much it costs or whatever new clothes you would like . |
| 3 | Having listened to Government spokesmen , it appears that their political objections are twofold . |
| 4 | In spite of many attempts to extend the use of hormones to the treatment of other cancers , it appears that their important effects are on the organs which they normally control . |
| 5 | He soon remarried and it appears that his second wife had no qualms about sharing the bedchamber with her predecessor . |
| 6 | From Nietzsche 's private notes of the period , it appears that his conservative inclinations were reinforced by Hanslick 's insistence on traditional formal principles of composition and the orthodox ideal of autonomous musical structures ; and it is no surprise to find distinct hostility in Nietzsche 's recorded comments on the new piano score of Die Walküre in 1866 . |
| 7 | It seems that whatever Saxon settlement there had been was so devastated during the Norman advance of 1070 that it was still uninhabited at the time of the survey in 1086 . |
| 8 | Even as governor-elect he was obliged to disavow any interest in the 1968 nomination ; however , it seems that his wealthy backers from the beginning had the White House in mind . |
| 9 | It seems that his original conception was of natural selection operating upon varieties or subspecies , not upon individual variations within the same population . |
| 10 | It seems that my hon. Friend is going to the essence of the argument . |
| 11 | It seems that our collective wish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite . |
| 12 | It is obviously in an uncomfortably contradictory position — squeezed between the expectations of the bureaucracies on which it relies and its political affiliation to the struggles of the mass of blacks which it is called upon to mediate , translate and sometimes police . |
| 13 | It denies that its proposed purchase of GiroBank necessarily postpones the conversion plans . |
| 14 | Children tend to believe that those adults around them are all-wise and all-powerful and it follows that whatever these adults say must be true . |
| 15 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 16 | As the UK is predominantly urban it follows that our dominant ideology must be urban . |
| 17 | Well , it means that whatever other people 's attitude to teachers may be , Christians are expected to love them , because however successfully they manage to hide it , all teachers are human and therefore designed by God to carry his likeness . |
| 18 | Put simply , it means that your total reprographics facilities are taken over by the experts . |
| 19 | There is also much criticism of the FC because of the high degree of autonomy that it enjoys and its legally-enforceable powers that allow for the compulsory purchase of land . |
| 20 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 21 | Likewise , the verb drink in a verb-object construction is the selector since it presupposes that its direct object bears the trait ‘ liquid ’ . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman goes to France — a country he seems to admire more than ours — he will find that it has introduced a price formula that is far less tough than ours on BT because it knows that its nationalised industry would find it difficult to match the performance of BT . |