Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it permits an obdurate East Berlin leadership to continue , at the risk of deeper disaffection among the population and growing isolation among its allies , or it encourages reform , and risks destroying the fragile foundations of East German statehood entirely . |
| 2 | The searcher may go astray because either some supposed fact is wrong or it applies modus ponens in an irrelevant way , but it will never arrive at any result which is not a strict consequence of its start state . |
| 3 | A diary helps you to reflect and it aids memory . |
| 4 | When we try the Star and Garter next door it is crammed tighter than a coal bucket , and it belts rap at a thousand watts . |
| 5 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 6 | He says Fill her up … and it takes petrol … diesel engines had n't quite been perfected . |
| 7 | The most common type used by gardeners is drawn through the earth by rotors that dig the soil and it takes practice to get the knack of using it . |
| 8 | In all aspects of pay and promotion the personal evaluation is critical and it takes account not just of performance at the current job but desirable personality traits such as creativity , emotional maturity and ability to cooperate with others . |
| 9 | He does not know what to do , and it takes time to solve the problem . |
| 10 | She 's very young , only a girl really , and it takes time to get used to this funny little country . |
| 11 | It 's like two distinct things , two different worlds , and it takes time to make the transition between them in one sitting . ’ |
| 12 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 13 | In order to have a current , charge carriers must be accelerated , and it takes time to accelerate particles of finite mass . |
| 14 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 15 | And it takes nerve to walk and sit to order in the glare of the lights with all those people watching . |
| 16 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
| 17 | Once play activity becomes formalized , directed , structured by rules , and it takes place in a defined space ( ‘ field of play ’ ) , it moves into the related but distinct area of games . |
| 18 | Searching for papers can be annoying to the person being called and it wastes time and money . |
| 19 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 20 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 21 | The forest is important as a source of food , since some gardens are situated in it , and it supplies palm wine , fibre for making clothes , wood for house construction and also a variety of sacred medicines . |
| 22 | the trouble with this is it 's an American book so it 's a bit , I call it biased , erm on erm the betrayal of children on , on the way that they 're not in childhood for very long and it blames literacy , that the more the literate the child becomes |
| 23 | It blames the poor , it blames the unemployed , it blames industry and it blames commerce for the mess that we 're in and never says anything about itself . |
| 24 | It established liaison committees on , for example , matters to do with schools , and it developed liaison arrangements with the Open University and others . |
| 25 | A radio was turned on and it played music , which I found odd . |
| 26 | Every man in it had fought before , it was freshly equipped , and it sought vengeance against the countries that had humbled France in 1814 . |
| 27 | This particularly devious and invidious form of argument can be endless , and it denies credit to human beings where it is due , and gives an excuse to those who , intending to avoid their obligation to contribute towards the world 's work , cite the doctrine , ‘ god will provide ’ . |
| 28 | Given Khoneinis constant Anti-American rhetoric , this was quite a success for the United States and it led Ambassador with the new regime . |
| 29 | This new bourgeoisie is innovative technologically ; internationalist , since its members partake of universalistic norms of technocracy and the managerial ideology ; and it promotes development , through a desire to compete with transnational companies . |
| 30 | He was already out there , virtually his spiritual home according to his team-mates back in Taunton , and it made sense to put him on alert . |