Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 2 | career development and training , where it exists it leads to a happier employee ; |
| 3 | Where it ended I forget . |
| 4 | See a few of them , you know right at beginning where it shows you preface ? |
| 5 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 6 | Norsk Data A/S , yesterday asked for its listing on the Oslo bourse to be temporarily cancelled — for up to two months , although it says it hopes to reach final agreement with its major creditors this month . |
| 7 | So you 've got two countries next door to each other , one of which is on the whole starting into reasonably good practice , whereas the other has , although it says it has intentions of doing it , in the case of the Ivory Coast . |
| 8 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 9 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 10 | And although it appeared he used his arm to do so , Russian referee Alexei Spirin ignored the appeals for a penalty . |
| 11 | Although it appeared she had a choice in making her decision , in fact she had none . |
| 12 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 13 | We call him ‘ gangling Chang ’ to distinguish him from the other Changs , because he is tall , thin , loose-limbed , and is ready to laugh about anything , although it appears he has some family problems in that his wife is away and his baby son is ill . |
| 14 | Although it believes it has a technological lead of around a year in the RISC notebook market , Gilkes does n't expect Tadpole to have the ground all to itself for much longer . |
| 15 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 16 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 17 | If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory . |
| 18 | Gedge 's infatuation with Rigby was so powerful that it led him to agree that Duane , a guitarist , could join the group . |
| 19 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 20 | And if they think that it suits them to shift a factory to the Philippines because there wo n't be an inspection there , that 's what they 'll do . |
| 21 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 22 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 23 | Perhaps the greatest value binocular vision has for us is that it allows us to judge distance . |
| 24 | One advantage of the self-concept is that it allows us to examine people as they are , as ‘ wholes ’ , not as a series of personality dimensions . |
| 25 | Then we shall show that this more subtle procedure is a valid way of estimating a macroeconomic model which incorporates rational expectations and that it allows us to test rational expectations conditional on the economic model with which it is combined . |
| 26 | If we look at this client server model today one of the most significant advantages it delivers is that it allows us to run different kinds of applications on different computers . |
| 27 | The real use of this model linking personality development to subject choice is that it allows us to make predictions about how pupils might react to changes in school science curriculum and school organization . |
| 28 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 29 | The advantage of the design is that it allows us to exclude other explanations . |
| 30 | The value of counselling is that it allows you to state your points of view to each other , before a trained and unbiased third party who can help you to resolve the issues that bother you . |