Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damage caused to non-business property can be claimed if it exceeds £275 in value . |
| 2 | He wears an old-fashioned brown tweed jacket , looks like it has biscuit crumbs sprinkled all over it . |
| 3 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |
| 4 | Are there erm , insurances in force covering the property , say if it caught fire , etcetera ? |
| 5 | This none-too-creditable story is probably included because it forms part of the family-tree of the ( later ) royal house , from which the Messiah himself was descended ( Matthew 1:3 ; Luke 3:33 ) . |
| 6 | Meeting in the southern Peruvian port of Ilo , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed an agreement with his Peruvian counterpart , Alberto Fujimori , on Jan. 24 , which would grant Bolivia , landlocked since it lost territory to Chile in the 1879 War of the Pacific , access to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 7 | This is why its share price has nearly quadrupled since it went public in March 1989 . |
| 8 | I forget whether it had wings on it or not . |
| 9 | The 8th will live in my mind forever , I do n't know whether it does Nick 's . |
| 10 | Although this message is unlikely to be one that LDDC highlights when it approaches Whitehall for money , there is no doubting it has shifted its public relations away from targeting solely yuppies and City businessmen . |
| 11 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 12 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 13 | A diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables is obviously to be recommended as it encourages digestion and elimination . |
| 14 | A new station called Birkbeck , was built where it crossed Elmers End Road , but was not sufficiently near the tram route to affect their traffic . |
| 15 | The Board 's determination would , said the court , be accepted if it had warrant in the record and a reasonable basis in law . |
| 16 | However , I would denounce the kind of RE she describes because it imposes beliefs rather than explores them . |
| 17 | Despite these encouraging results this technique was not widely adopted because it proved time consuming , generally insensitive , did not localise the neoplastic lesion , and was associated with false positive results . |
| 18 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 19 | The first is the easiest to remember since it uses characters that are related to the name of the function the sequences is performing ( as mnemonic ) . |
| 20 | In Western philosophy , when knowledge or theory comprehends the other , then the alterity of the latter vanishes as it becomes part of the same . |
| 21 | The Great Central Railtour of June 1963 behind 4472 ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ , seen as it heads south from Tibshelf and is about to cross the Midland branch from Westhouses to Teversal . |
| 22 | His writings , particularly his Homilies on Ezechiel , composed while he was pope , show that he thought the contemplative life of monks would be best validated if it bore fruit in action . |
| 23 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 24 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
| 25 | This kind of ‘ interpretation ’ may be legally and socially sound although it reaches results that would surprise the lexicographer . |
| 26 | It may be that initially it is difficult for people to express their hopes and goals and their fears and needs in their Christian life , and we do n't mind if it takes time . |
| 27 | Nor , when a more viable alternative does appear , are they necessarily much bothered if it reopens issues peripheral to the main line of advance which seemed to be already settled . |
| 28 | This is particularly important at a time when we as trainers are concerned with the ‘ communicative approach ’ to language teaching ; when there are no specific methods , there is no one way of doing things , when a eclecticism rules , when almost everything the teacher does is fine provided it involves variety , the use of authentic language and authentic materials based on the learning needs of the individual and achieves effective communication — whatever this may mean . |
| 29 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
| 30 | Each organisation takes a different route in deciding whether it needs computer help in personnel management . |