Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electricity continued to replace steam-powered mechanical drives , and the subdivision of power which it made possible remained a fundamentally attractive characteristic . |
| 2 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
| 3 | Thus in principle a directive is addressed to the Member State and not to the citizen ; it sets out an object which the Member State is to achieve and leaves it to the Member State to adopt the measures which it considers apt to accomplish that object . |
| 4 | We therefore envisage a ‘ Stage 2 ’ when the Social Charter will be widened and deepened : widened to include groups — particularly pensioners — who are omitted from its present provisions ; deepened in terms of the protection which it offers those included . |
| 5 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 6 | The former will make a strong statement , enhancing the rest of the display , whereas the latter could result in a fussy mess in which it becomes impossible to enjoy any of the plants as individuals . |
| 7 | There is a point beyond which it becomes impracticable to continue . |
| 8 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 9 | Three years after disaffiliation and the beginning of the United Front the ILP had less than one third of the membership on which it had last affiliated to the Labour Party . |
| 10 | Burnett 's favourite preparation for the treatment of uterine tumours was Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum so not having the LMI gave her the 6C potency in a 10ml dropper and within 3 days she was relieved of the discomfort on walking and standing which it seems reasonable to assume is due to the fibroid shrinking . |
| 11 | Such language seems vacuous to some , but if we are to comprehend the nature of the arts in particular , being is a concept which it seems difficult to do without . |
| 12 | US business appears to have been locked into a pattern of low accumulation from which it proved difficult to escape even when the rising tide of competition began , in the sixties , to have a noticeable effect in the domestic US market . |
| 13 | To the right of the green are bunkers from which it appears easy to thin the ball into the water the other side . |
| 14 | She was also dimly aware that they had passed the point of no return — now she had allowed him inside her it seemed wrong to yell at him to stop or begin fighting him . |
| 15 | The House may expel members whom it considers unfit to serve . |
| 16 | Human life is a series of lessons and opportunities for development and evolvement and to me it seems logical to assume that one spirit continues its learning process throughout many lifetimes . |
| 17 | To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final . |
| 18 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 19 | Of what it felt like to live in such a world we are , and must for ever remain , entirely ignorant . |
| 20 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
| 21 | I wondered what it felt like to die . |
| 22 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 23 | He was wonderful on things , on everyday smells and sounds , and what it felt like to work with your hands . |
| 24 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 25 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
| 26 | This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war . |
| 27 | First and most importantly , you have to appreciate what it feels like to lose your job and , with it , the sureness that you can feed and clothe and take care of yourself and your dependants in the way you 're used to . |
| 28 | I wonder what it feels like to live nearly for ever ? |
| 29 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 30 | If you 've ever wondered what it feels like to go into space , a new machine is available that can give you a pretty good idea . |