Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 2 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 3 | There are , for instance , several conflicting claims concerning the function of the Japanese suffix -wa : some suggest that it is an obligatory marker of topic ( this claim is implicit in Li , 1976 : 465 ) ; others suggest that it marks given information ( see 5.1.2. below for an explanation of given vs new information ) . |
| 4 | But technology and global competition will eventually put more people to work than it makes redundant |
| 5 | It is natural to walk or run them and anyone who has done this will know that it becomes more of a rhythmic dance when perfectly attuned . |
| 6 | Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’ |
| 7 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 8 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 9 | The trustees and the directors say that it takes two to three years to get the feel of the responsibilities — those responsibilities are considerably greater these days — and to work one 's way in and become able to contribute fully . |
| 10 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 11 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 12 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 13 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 14 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 15 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 16 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 17 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 18 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 19 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 20 | I do n't know if it makes any difference , but it was n't planned . |
| 21 | Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque . |
| 22 | Its transponder means it can be located if it becomes detached from its lift wire and umbilical . |
| 23 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 24 | The meaning of " written standard terms of business 's has already been considered and it seems clear that s3 will always apply to terms in standard terms of trading . |
| 25 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 26 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 27 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 28 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 29 | The value of prosection was stressed since it offered three dimensional knowledge to the medical students and post-graduates and many future surgeons would be trained to dissect and explore the body through these preparations . |
| 30 | But there is now a 60 per cent chance that a fish will be caught after it reaches 35 centimetres ( the legal limit to netting size ) . |