Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 2 | She says has it turned gay or homosexual , has it changed sex , is it the micro-climate or did one of us fix it ? |
| 3 | Only within the last hundred years has it become evident that a sperm is in no way comparable to the seed of a plant , which is a multicellular reproductive structure containing the embryo of the plant . |
| 4 | Only since the general adoption of the policy of specialisation engendered by the Industrial Revolution has it become common to demolish and rebuild rather than to adapt and extend . |
| 5 | Nor has it drawn large crowds , apart from the 105,000 visitors who attended the inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Dubuffet 's latter years . |
| 6 | Well er as I say I think , er if if if the County Council are are insisting that any new settlement erm should be self contained , I think one would need to see what that definition is before we can be clear as to whether or not it has it has strategic implications . |
| 7 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |
| 8 | What has it got little things on the bottom ? |
| 9 | Has it got double doors that shop ? |
| 10 | And as the drama unfolds it reveals complex layers of corruption and influence-peddling . |
| 11 | It looks it looks passable dun n it ? |
| 12 | No it looks it looks wrong . |
| 13 | Its articulated design allows it to negotiate sharp curves and it arrived at Brecon in Spring 1986 after its Indian home line closed the year before . |
| 14 | Independence allows it to try new parts that others may not be able to play . |
| 15 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 16 | ‘ Joey says it sounds O.K. He says to tell you , shamus , that he hopes you collect the reward . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He says it sounds exciting . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
| 19 | Intel says it saw strong demand in the US and Japan , where orders rose significantly as the market was stimulated by lower personal computer prices . |
| 20 | As well as milking the 715/33 for all its worth , Hewlett-Packard says it remains hard at work on developing what it says will be an Apple Computer Inc Mac-like Unix environment for the thing , in addition to the on-board multimedia hardware it is supposed to incorporate . |
| 21 | As well as milking the 715/33 for all its worth , HP says it remains hard at work on developing what it says will be an Apple Mac-like Unix environment for the thing , in addition to the on-board multimedia hardware it is supposed to incorporate . |
| 22 | Coming off the combine at 15% moisture , he says it looked good . |
| 23 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 24 | He says it has good networks for communication and is very attractive for business . |
| 25 | Canon Inc says it has new optical disk technology that could rival magnetic disks : its forthcoming 350Mb erasable magneto-optical drives will have an access time close to that of magnetic drives : it plans to launch them late next year at $1,000 for the drives and $30 to $40 for the optical disks . |
| 26 | Ancor says it has extensive expertise in the research and design of components that meet the Fibre Channel Standard specification , and the initial activities will involve use of high-speed switching chips and software technologies from Ancor and related technologies from IBM . |
| 27 | Vicom says it incurred massive debt during the development its own proprietary visualisation line whilst at the same time taking over Sun 's products , and could n't attract the new development capital it required . |
| 28 | Mr Frost says it looks real nice in the summer when all the flowers come out . |
| 29 | he says it looks nice as well |
| 30 | And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant |