Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 2 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |
| 3 | If , for example , the landlord is entitled to enter the demised property in order to carry out substantial improvements or to reconstruct it the tenant may be able to defeat a claim to determine his tenancy on the ground of demolition and reconstruction ( Heath v Drown [ 1973 ] AC 498 ) . |
| 4 | Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure . |
| 5 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 6 | Not only are the men and women involved people of remarkable courage and strength , but unlike Imperial Typewriters or Spiralynx it is a strike of black workers in an area well known for its tradition of left wing trade union organisation . |
| 7 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
| 8 | Does it refer to territory already held by the Croatians or does it apply to old frontiers which are up for grabs ? |
| 9 | In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality . |
| 10 | And , in the end , feckless ones , it is , as we must always say , the songs that prove it all . |
| 11 | Because fruit is not very nutritious in proportion to its bulk , animals that eat it must consume a lot . |
| 12 | To the animals that do it , there is nothing particularly special about using tools : it is a piece of behaviour much like any other that the animal performs . |
| 13 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 14 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 15 | Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid . |
| 16 | Blue eyes that made it hard to look away . |
| 17 | I would sooner lose the use of both legs than read it . |
| 18 | If we can not really be sure about the way this Christianization of the urban population was brought about , we can , however , discern some of the anxieties that accompanied it . |
| 19 | The terms of the agreement are determined by the parties that concluded it ( in Upper Silesia the Allies ) , and not by the subsequently emergent State . |
| 20 | That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves . |
| 21 | This missile is not particularly clever , but the computers that control it and the radar are . |
| 22 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 23 | It 's the interchangeableness of this , these words that makes it difficult to understand |
| 24 | She liked the words that described it : spotless , pure , immaculate . |
| 25 | The service enjoys a monopoly position , supplying news to the independent television channels that own it and pay accordingly ( the initial estimate for 1990–91 was £60 million ) . |
| 26 | for the empty , unoccupied homes that makes it very difficult for me to go along with my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay ( Mr. Allason ) , who wanted the 50 per cent . |
| 27 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 28 | Victorine stared at her reflection held in the ornate frame of the mirror over the fireplace while her fingers dusted the china vases that flanked it . |
| 29 | Then , without previous movement or sound , only with a sudden gush of closed and graveyard air , the rotten surface above buckled and dimpled , lolling in sagging bubbles of turf , and sending its under-levels of soil cascading down on top of the ancient arc of bricks that upheld it . |
| 30 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |