Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of 1988 it has become obvious that Adobe 's proprietary font encoding system and hinting technologies ( these give good results at low resolutions ) were being broken by some of the other font foundries . |
| 2 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 3 | However , now we 're spoilt for choice , it has become clear that Juice is neither the best nor the worst of the genre : less sentimental and powerful than Boyz N The Hood , and far superior to Straight Outta Brooklyn , Juice is still a fair way to spend an hour or two . |
| 4 | ‘ It has become clear that people know there is a very real choice between the Tories who would privatise the National Health Service and starve it of funds and Labour who would invest in it and modernise it , ’ she said . |
| 5 | From our experience it has become clear that training black staff is not the only solution . |
| 6 | In recent years , it has become clear that phosphorylation plays a pivotal role in modulating the activity of sequence-specific transcription factors ( 1 , 2 ) . |
| 7 | It has become clear that IVF does not help . |
| 8 | It has established diplomatic and trade relations with South Korea and its rapidly growing economy would only suffer if a war were to start across the border . |
| 9 | ‘ Despite some difficulties and major changes , it has proved reliable and cost effective in the main . ’ |
| 10 | Aerate the lawn if it tends to become waterlogged or growth is very poor . |
| 11 | A main remedy for croup , especially if it follows taking cold or exposure to dry cold winds I or 2 days previously . |
| 12 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 13 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 14 | While his explanations do not seem clearly to separate older arguments about managers under- or over-investing from the impact of the business-cycle stage itself , it does seem clear that investment at the right time , i.e. early in the product life-cycle , does lead to increased ROI if management is able to establish its product in the market place and control costs . |
| 15 | It does seem clear that Railtrack does not have the borrowing power to finance a major modernisation programme and that the private sector will be called on , ultimately through privatisation . |
| 16 | The mere fact of having been cast in the role of daughter , daughter-in-law , son or son-in-law does not automatically endow any of us with the ability to play that part to perfection , particularly when it begins to need more than smiles and pleasantries at family gatherings , and demands qualities of patience , perseverance and insight , and the regular visiting of a lonely and possibly disabled old person . |
| 17 | New events , new people are cropping up , and it begins to seem possible that life can go on , but people can still say wounding and painful things . |