Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any movement of the mouse will change the pattern that the chip detects and it can instantly calculate how far it has moved in any direction . |
| 2 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 3 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 4 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 5 | But that is what it has become in many churches where it is surrounded by a po-faced atmosphere akin to a dentist 's waiting room . |
| 6 | It has emerged in many countries that , as the standard of living rises , it is more and more difficult to run an autocratic production system using the indigenous labour force . |
| 7 | Methods of contraception and details of the menstrual cycle — whether it has altered in any way , how regular it is — will be asked , and also details of the symptoms , if any , that prompted attendance . |
| 8 | Because the film includes no genital close-ups or explicit sexual activity , it has played in many parts of the world , occasionally with a classification less restrictive than that given to so-called ‘ hardcore ’ sex films . |
| 9 | Over those years , it has poured in some FFr103 billion of capital into nationalised industries . |
| 10 | The offer caused mass protests and eventually the firm pulled out , but now it has put in another bid , believed to be £5m . |
| 11 | It has occurred in each month from October to June , but is most usually found between December and May , either wintering or on spring passage . |
| 12 | It has meant in some schemes there is only just enough money to pay current penioners , with nothing left for people approaching retirement age . |
| 13 | It has resulted in some cases in ‘ banality rather than simplicity ’ . |
| 14 | Nuts have been put out by bird lovers but it has resulted in several greenfinches being poisoned . |
| 15 | This behaviour sounds like a one-off freak , but it has evolved in many , unrelated , groups of fish . |
| 16 | I know that it has happened in some regions , but that is certainly not evident in the areas of which I am most aware , where the problem seems great . |
| 17 | He said that he said it does n't happen in York , but it has happened in some places you know . |
| 18 | ‘ It has worked in some very eminent cases . |
| 19 | By 1789 it had assumed in most respects its nineteenth-century form . |
| 20 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 21 | The Roman Research Trust declined to be interviewed , but a spokesman denied that it had acted in any way improperly . |
| 22 | The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places . |
| 23 | He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School . |
| 24 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |
| 25 | Oh right , you mean it 's broken in more ways than we previously thought . |
| 26 | Well , unless people have specific to Katherine , as I say it 's presented in such a way , this report , that essentially we 're asked to agree the number of permits to match the number of applications . |
| 27 | cos er gone in er , it 's gone in this week , but er |
| 28 | Now it 's done in less than a second . |
| 29 | So really it 's understood in these allegations that you 're saying that the solicitors should have invited your client to provide them with the authority to write to the bank . |
| 30 | Now it 's covered in that . |