Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the CEMREL Research Project ( 1972 ) is any indication of what is expected it seems American teachers are looking for a child 's skill at ‘ showing ’ , and , in particular , ‘ showing ’ emotion . |
| 2 | ‘ I have written it using medical terms and layman 's terms in brackets so people will be able to understand it . |
| 3 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 4 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 5 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 6 | Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy . |
| 7 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 8 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 9 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 12 | ‘ The neural net records all details of a scene — body posture , words , tone of voice , movement — and when the scene is replayed it enhances certain features to make the record less ambiguous . ’ |
| 13 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 14 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 15 | Some eminent wine-makers have since nurtured it to produce distinctive wines on its own — leathery , creamy and spicy , with a soft slick of redcurrant jelly . |
| 16 | It is evident that however the relationship is conceived it contains many elements of disorder and conflict , and that if there is not a substantial movement , in the medium-term future , towards greater economic equality among the nations of the world , the prospects for peaceful international cooperation will become still more discouraging . |
| 17 | T-I has also denied it has any plans to close down Dowty 's headquarters in Cheltenham and move jobs T-I 's HQ at Abingdon in Oxfordshire . |
| 18 | New York State 's attorney general investigated the society and required it to make quarterly reports , an obligation that still applies today . |
| 19 | When it is established it develops many runners which bear green shoots at intervals . |