Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is not enough to devote four pages to ‘ sexual orientation ’ and then lamely say it deserves more attention . |
| 2 | They say it shows little respect for the environment and have managed to pursuade council officials to consider putting preservation orders on the remaining trees . |
| 3 | Let's be fair , now ; I do n't expect it makes much difference to Mrs Morgan , or her cat , " Mr Smith said , and a small smile played over his lips as he glanced at Dan Ashton , who grunted and looked down at his feet while Smith continued , " whether you were joking or in deadly seriousness . " |
| 4 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 5 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 6 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , IXI says it has some deals in its back pocket to put X.desktop on Destiny for some of the USL OEMs — ICL being a likely candidate — see page five . |
| 8 | One delegation from Oxford City Council says it needs more cash to serve an extra thirteen thousand people whose homes now fall within the the city boundaries . |
| 9 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 10 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
| 11 | I hope it stays that way . |
| 12 | Oh , I hope it lifts this fog today and we have a bit of sun . |
| 13 | I hope my movie is better than that : I certainly hope it makes more money . |
| 14 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 15 | Lot thirty seven is an Edison Gem phonograph as you can see it has some cylinders with it er fifty pounds for it , fifty pounds any bids , five , sixty , five , seventy five , eighty , ninety , one hundred a hundred pounds and ten any more at a hundred and ten ? |
| 16 | ( De Wilde is also quietly vocal ; I know it annoys some people . ) |
| 17 | Yeah , I know it puts more work back on the people asking for the money , but if , if that went ahead , and they it up , and the whole lot came down . |
| 18 | Like everything else in life that is worth having it requires some effort and self discipline . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world . ’ |
| 20 | It can be frustrating when I 'm pursuing some grand design such as building a shed or planting a hedge ; but I suppose it teaches that life is a process of becoming . |
| 21 | President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and . |
| 22 | Your implication that the high handed attitude of the LTA has contributed to the demise of junior tennis in this country is so far removed from the truth that I believe it bears some examination . |
| 23 | We work closely with the Department of Social Security in developing such guidance and are keen to preserve this relationship as we believe it provides more flexibility and enables actuaries to apply their professional judgement ultimately for the benefit of the pension scheme member . |
| 24 | Its straight up that side — ’ he waved his clipboard at the hill — 'but it twists this side . |
| 25 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 26 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 27 | Worse , they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions , where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut . |
| 28 | In so doing it multiplies many times over and produces alcohol . |
| 29 | In so doing it breaches any totality , including History : |
| 30 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |