Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It made nodding dogs seem in good taste .
2 Since its inception it has made loans totalling over $ 140 billion to 110 countries .
3 Will my right hon. Friend take time to congratulate British industry on the fact that it has achieved record exports in the past quarter , that 27 of the top 50 European companies are British and that Britain exports more of its national product than Japan ?
4 As a result it has seen sales climb by a third in the first four months of this year .
5 For it has led Darwin to think of each species as spreading out into varying conditions , over a range , over time .
6 It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated .
7 Apart from general operating conditions , it has set emission limits for sulphur dioxide , nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide .
8 It has persuaded pubs to open during the afternoon , and provide an additional beer from a different brewery , through successful lobbying of Parliament .
9 It has urged women to assemble in their streets to pray together and stage silent vigils .
10 He claims it has forced migrants to live outside formal society .
11 The Law Society announced today that it intends to seek leave to apply for judicial review of the Lord chancellor 's decision to reduce the free limit for legal aid and legal advice and to abolish legal advice under the Green Form Scheme for those above the free limit .
12 CEN , the European equivalent of the British Standards Institute , already says it intends to make engineering controls on spray transfer mandatory .
13 It has a small head , its arms are upraised and it appears to wear trunks supported by a thick twisted cable round the waist .
14 It aims to make people think of ‘ the good old days ’ when life was slow and simple and food was tasty and natural .
15 BR says it hopes to start test runs from London to Glasgow again ‘ soon ’ .
16 Sheer shock at the vindictiveness of it had kept Paige rooted to the spot , and then her brain had started to work again .
17 The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building .
18 One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter .
19 I said that whereas it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about presentation appearances it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about perceived-as appearances .
20 The third reason relates to the fact that whereas it does n't make sense to say ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun , it does make sense to talk of other people 's feelings .
21 Education is used to support current social differences , since it claims to generate distinctions based on merit rather than birth or wealth , being itself the means by which differential ability is identified .
22 Tandem Computers Inc has introduced a software tool kit that it claims extends transaction processing on its proprietary Guardian 90-based NonStop machines to desktop systems in client-server environments .
23 But estate agents think it 's got alot going for it .
24 Yeah , the drawer in , the new cabinet we 've got with it it 's got Wigan reports plus drawings in it
25 And it 's got victory written in small letters all over it and of course the v for victory and this this particular design here has got items of clothing and the number of coupons required for each item scattered over .
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