Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb mod] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
2 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
3 | Thomas did n't look immediately cheered , but might relay some of that , Nicholas thought , where it would help matters . |
4 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
5 | These rate CCG 's level of service , allowing the company to identify areas where it can make improvements . |
6 | Keep your front guard hand close to your face where it can give protection . |
7 | Normally groundwater supplies are of high quality and need little treatment , but the source of groundwater is rainfall that percolates through the soil , where it can dissolve substances , man-made or natural , beneficial or deleterious , present in the soil . |
8 | Does the Minister support British Rail 's policy of siting freight depots only where it can find developers to put money into facilities around the depot ? |
9 | Position it in the centre of the mantelpiece , stand it on a shelf on its own , shine a spotlight on to it , or hang it on an empty wall where it will attract attention . |
10 | Then it will start looking in C : \DOS , where it will find PRINT.EXE . |
11 | Apparently the hyperparasite infects only mistletoe and so V. loranthi can be safely introduced into new areas , where it will attack mistletoes without parasitising any other plants . |
12 | Friar 's Square in the centre of Aylesbury is outdated and ugly , but a facelift is at hand although it 'll set developers , Unilever and Friends Provident , back £60 million . |
13 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
14 | That comes from the se , the seabed churning it up but the sea is never still , it 's tossing and in , as the movement there underneath , although it may appear calm on the surface , but there are times when it 's not calm on the surface , it 's as rough on top as it is underneath . |
15 | The definition of price stickiness which we shall employ in this section does not in fact alter very much the policy implications of the model developed in the previous chapter , although it may have implications for the test of that model . |
16 | The professional debate needs to take place on different ground and the professional service , although it may have buildings among its outputs , will have to have deep human and social insights among its inputs . |
17 | On the other hand , GH5 is a eukaryotic protein that binds as a monomer , is not sequence-specific ( although it may have sequence preferences ) , and the structure of the DNA on binding to GH5 is unknown . |
18 | If a dispute arises , a court will probably not take account of the layout in construing the contract , although it may take account of headings and/or marginal notes . |
19 | Although it may require attendance before the district judge or taxing master , if it is a big case with costs of £10,000 — £20,000 , an extra 5 to 20 per cent is not to be thrown away lightly . |
20 | Ruthless and totalitarian , of necessity , yet also in the long run cherishing the human race , although it must needs manacle the minds of men ; absolutely , as never before . |
21 | A The Loquat ( Eriobotrya japonica ) is a remarkably tough plant , and will survive pretty low temperatures , although it will suffer frost damage . |
22 | This approach requires very different kinds of investment , unlikely to save institutional funds overall , although it will shift funds towards areas such as networking infrastructure . |
23 | Although it will show paintings by Larry Rivers , Alex Katz , Red Grooms , Frank Auerbach and RB Kitaj , it is featuring those Spanish and South American artists whom it represents . |
24 | I think it will succeed although it will take ages , for he is fearfully shy , and I am likewise affected . |
25 | As many of those benefits go to people who do not need them , that spending does far less than it could to relieve poverty . |
26 | Big buttons are easier than small ones , so it may save time as well as tempers if you replace small buttons with something a bit more chunky . |
27 | I love shops anyway , so it would make sense to stock products that do n't damage the environment . ’ |
28 | More gardens to the left , so it would make sense to suppose that you 'd come in from the right , leaving your car in the road at the end of the row . |
29 | ‘ You would hit a gob of grass , but the engine revs just would n't drop , so it would put strain on other components , ’ he says . |
30 | ‘ It 's much more aggressive and mean-looking , so it might make people think again before joyriding , ’ said Mark , of Lambeth Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough . |