Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |
| 8 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 9 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 10 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It allows us to set numerous codes for different types of absence , such as dentist 's appointment , doctor etc . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I actually would hope that we would keep our allowances standard , because it allows us to do other things . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The advantage of the design is that it allows us to exclude other explanations . |
| 20 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 21 | There seems to be something amiss with DR DOS 6 if it allows you to produce protected files in this way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It says its got 43 distributors worldwide and 150 major hardware and software vendors shipping or announcing availability of their products for UnixWare . |
| 24 | It says its had fewer visitors , and that in turn has led to a fall in essential income . |
| 25 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
| 26 | It says it has 100 orders for the systems , nine models of the HP 3000 and HP 9000 lines ; a handful of the new 3000s went out in August ; the first 9000s should be shipping this month . |
| 27 | What does it mean when it says you know all things . |
| 28 | It seemed we needed thirty copies of everything , stamped and signed at least twice . |
| 29 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 30 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |