Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has also shown that treatment of children with cystic fibrosis has produced adults who are fit , active , and integrated for most of their lives .
2 The advent of mass owner occupation has not only meant widespread property ownership for the first time , it has also meant that inheritance of house property has become increasingly common .
3 Yet it has only survived because Lavenham , as a town , failed .
4 Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing .
5 Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative .
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