Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has also been warned not to increase VAT or extend it to include children 's clothes , domestic fuel , books and newspapers . |
| 2 | To Zborowski 's annoyance , Modigliani still clung to his old habits in the cafés , making dozens of sketches and giving most of his work away or bartering it to buy drinks . |
| 3 | Is it just a collection of stories or does it contain memories of real experiences ? |
| 4 | Without going to look at it , does the face of that clock bear Roman or Arabic numerals or does it have dots or other symbols to mark the numbers ? |
| 5 | In practice , it will probably try to get away with transfer prices that let it shift profits into low-tax countries . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co is now shipping HP OpenView Distributed Management Platform 3.2 , a release that lets it manage OSI as well as TCP/IP networks . |
| 7 | The package itself did not control the line , nor did it tell operators and management what action to take when things went wrong . |
| 8 | The Realpolitik of Berlin detached the definition of the new Germany from Germanism — it did not include all Germans nor did it exclude non-Germans . |
| 9 | Nor did it need riots to provoke these swan-songs for the old traditions . |
| 10 | Nor did it allow families to get the car very close to the house as they preferred to do . |
| 11 | It had no business goodwill and was not permitted to trade ; nor did it have shareholders ; ( 5 ) in failing to take proper account of the fact that it logically followed that if a local government corporation could sue for libel in respect of its governing reputation then so too could any institution of central government ( including , for example , a government department which was a statutory corporation such as the Department of the Environment ) ; ( 6 ) in the premises in considering that there was no uncertainty or ambiguity in English law in relation to the extent to which local authorities might sue for libel . |
| 12 | The unconscious blackmail threat levelled at his parents — he would marry Sien unless they accepted him as he was — had n't resulted in his expulsion , but nor had it improved matters . |
| 13 | The marriage ceremony is not a process whereby a wife abdicates her role in the decision-making process , nor does it give husbands the right to unilateral decisions . |
| 14 | In spite of the attempt to introduce earlier maturity by means of the Shorthorn , the Charolais remains a late-maturing breed with the advantage that the animal is heavier before it begins to deposit fat , nor does it need hormones to put more meat on its hindquarters . |
| 15 | And there would seem to be an easy , gradual continuum between using the voice to make echoes and using it to mimic echoes . |
| 16 | The idea of recovering waste heat from air or water , and using it to heat buildings cheaply , is very attractive . |
| 17 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 18 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 19 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 20 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 21 | The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework . |
| 22 | The USA released US$54,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 to assist the country 's economic stabilization and to help it to normalize relations with international financial institu-tions . |
| 23 | In South Africa domestic workers are not covered by labour laws , but SADWU has drawn up a schedule of wages and benefits it believes employers should observe . |
| 24 | Tony uses the Midge commuting to site each day and finds it gets waves from admirers . |
| 25 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 26 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
| 27 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
| 28 | This being so , it is surely better to acknowledge the power of behaviour and use it to improve relationships and enhance communication between people . |
| 29 | ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents . |
| 30 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |