Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [det] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the detector in omnidirectional mode it bleeps when it receives any radar swap from within 5 miles ( 8 km ) . |
| 2 | support among GPs , so it has some way to go in winning the argument . |
| 3 | It has another division working on OSI , and recently won a contract from Microsoft Corp to supply X.400 technology for Microsoft Corp 's NT . |
| 4 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 5 | It is largely derivative , but it contains some stories written from his own experience and that of his personal acquaintances , including an account of his family and its devotion to St Stephen 's church , Launceston . |
| 6 | It wants such work halted until a ‘ Human Eugenics Advisory Committee ’ has been set up which includes civil liberties experts and representatives for the disabled . |
| 7 | The UK , Cambridge-based firm says demand has been generated by volume sales of the low-end SparcClassic workstation , which does not run earlier versions of Sun 's operating system : it ships this month priced at £140 — £200 for a development pack . |
| 8 | and if you look in the blue box , bottom left to begin with it says this chapter looks at the way in which human beings treat animals . |
| 9 | It recycles this information according to the attractability of a specific energy pattern existing at the physical level when the conditions the conducive . |
| 10 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 11 | It transpires that Ram got on a plane in Kansas City , looked out the window and got straight back off again . |
| 12 | ‘ In fact , it contradicts some statements made by the Commission . ’ |
| 13 | It seems that rubbish left in a skip belongs to the skip-owner and rubbish in dustbins belongs to the local authority . |
| 14 | It means that legislation tabled by John McFall , Labour MP for Dumbarton , with support from the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party , will fail for lack of parliamentary time . |
| 15 | It means that money to pay for your current fuel consumption , and towards the arrears you owe , is taken from your benefit each week and paid direct to your fuel account . |
| 16 | And the industrialised world often encourages this , because it means such countries continue to be dependent on foreign technicians . |
| 17 | ( a ) The welfare principle Under s1(1) of the Act the child 's welfare must be the court 's paramount consideration when it determines any question relating to a child 's upbringing . |
| 18 | Towards the mid-1970s Thai boxing was introduced into the United States , where it has become very popular , partly because it resembles another art introduced at that time , called full-contact karate . |
| 19 | Thus it makes little sense to refer to ‘ immigrant ’ communities ; what we now have are minority black British communities , that have already made a very substantial contribution to the growth and prosperity of the British economy . |
| 20 | While it makes little sense to talk of criticism of the physical world , it makes every sense to talk of criticism turned on to the theories and concepts which science has produced to explain the external world , for they could certainly be other than they are.8 Unfortunately , we sometimes give the impression in science and technological education that the current models , terms and theories of science are given and have merely to be assimilated by students . |
| 21 | For , it is argued , it makes little sense to worry about the possibility of repetitiveness and reduplication with regard to the world " in itself " if we can establish the historical uniqueness of particulars in relation to ourselves . |
| 22 | If so , it makes little sense to speak of ‘ authenticity ’ , though feminists might wish to celebrate women 's talk as an aspect of their resistance to oppression , a demonstration of skill and creativity with the limited materials at hand . |
| 23 | In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that . |
| 24 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |