Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HP claims that 7100-based business servers running it provide commercial users with the industry 's fastest uniprocessor server performance on TPS-A benchmarks . |
| 2 | The Government insists that a promise of secrecy given to manufacturers prevents it telling 8 million microwave owners exactly what may be wrong with their machines . |
| 3 | As more and more frauds emerge it becomes apparent that conmen are trying to dupe vulnerable people . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Fluoride can be harmful ; the key question is , at what concentrations does it become toxic in the body ? |
| 6 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 7 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 8 | No I got the cakes Does it look alright Paul ? |
| 9 | He took from it a ten-shilling note which he placed on the tea-chest , smoothing out the folds to make it lie flat . |
| 10 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 11 | Only within the last hundred years has it become evident that a sperm is in no way comparable to the seed of a plant , which is a multicellular reproductive structure containing the embryo of the plant . |
| 12 | Though it is plausible that Mercury and the Moon could have lost large quantities of volatiles to space it seems unlikely that this explains the extreme extent of their depletions . |
| 13 | It is keen to exploit the so-called personal communications market — supposedly destined to grow from one million world users in 1994 to 100 million by 2000 — and having a finger in both pies means it wins either way . |
| 14 | The existence of successful black sportsmen in Britain is not the recent phenomenon it is often considered to be , though the upsurge in the post-war years makes it appear that way . |
| 15 | But over the same time the proportion of women in professional families using it remained steady . |
| 16 | Where oligopolistic market structures remain it seems likely that some firms will resort to informal agreements and the other collusive devices examined in Chapter 10 . |
| 17 | Only eight out of more than two hundred teams made it to today' final at Silverstone |
| 18 | Headbangers do it like that . |
| 19 | What the company has also been at pains to do it allow local input into its products . |
| 20 | It has to shed its skin four or five times to allow it to grow bigger . |
| 21 | But critics say it gives false hope to millions and they predict chaos , as local authorities run out of money and those on the edge , like the homeless , are squeezed out . |
| 22 | The catch phrase ‘ equality of opportunity ’ is a delusion , concealing not only the injustice of our social hierarchy but also how much effort is put in by conservative forces to ensure it remains unjust . |
| 23 | Some users thought it gave greater " precision " or " tied down their ideas . " |
| 24 | There were , though , negative comments : 17% of respondents thought it looked extravagant and was too glossy . |
| 25 | Tests revealed it contained formic acid , which a doctor from Newcastle University said could be lethal to a child if only teaspoonful was swallowed . |
| 26 | Fishing has been patchy due to the cool temperatures but anglers expect it to get better when the winds turn south westerly . |
| 27 | These results show it has little discriminatory value . |
| 28 | As the blue coronet of flame reached upwards , her hands guarding it looked transparent . |
| 29 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the orang-utan can tolerate a wide range of bitter and sour fruits and high alcohol levels and its strong hands allow it to open spiny or hard fruits like durians and legumes . |