Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |
| 2 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 3 | I am glad that I did not miss that intervention , because it has contributed so much to the debate . |
| 4 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 5 | I believe , however , that the emphasis is justified because it has received so little systematic attention in the British literature . |
| 6 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 7 | Unlike any of these , it has conducted very little in the way of cross-border brand-building , preferring to buy smaller companies , such as the French moulded chocolate manufacturer Poulain , as a way of gaining market share . |
| 8 | But far from contributing to meaningful employment for women , it has created yet another series of bad jobs . |
| 9 | They 've already given him a taste of the castor oil , a bout of gaol , a bit of a beating , just a tickle , a caress of their united methods , but still , you know , you 'd think it was enough , it has kept so many others from singing . |
| 10 | Computer-assisted learning , although it has made only some fitful progress in the past twenty years , will also feature prominently in education . |
| 11 | That it has achieved so much is largely due to the high regard in which Philip Hardman , chairman of the Faculty 's technical committee , Edwin Vidler , its secretary , and other members of the committee and its subcommittees are held by the Revenue departments . |
| 12 | Whatever the case if it has become too much of a habit , this can be devastating . |
| 13 | Dysart , one of the mainstays of the show , says it has become too much bedroom nookie and too little courtroom drama . |
| 14 | I would suggest that it has done rather more than just reveal them . |
| 15 | It has done so much for us . |
| 16 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 17 | It has lost nearly all its muscles and become thin and whip-like , sometimes with a poisonous spine at the end . |
| 18 | Economists point out , however , that in the UK it has shrunk so much — from 30% in 1970 to 21% today — that critical mass has been lost . |
| 19 | Despite a growing influx of visitors , it has changed very little in the forty years since I first saw it , remaining unspoiled and unsophisticated . |
| 20 | Yet if it is to this which the Epitome means to refer , it has suppressed too many qualifications to present an accurate view . |
| 21 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 22 | Well it has got actually any of Danny on it . |
| 23 | Yesterday her mum Jane said : ‘ I wish I had her back but it has taken away some of the emptiness to know that Paula lives on and she was able to help young and old . |
| 24 | With our new store opening programme running to around 20 locations a year , it has taken relatively little time for the idea of the supermarket bakery not just to gain credence , but to become remarkably successful . |
| 25 | The agency wants to keep them as collateral for a securitisation package it plans to sell later this year . |
| 26 | However , there are very few people who know how to survey and excavate underwater , and because it tends to cost so much more than land archaeology it needs to be a very worthwhile site or we have to leave it alone ’ . |
| 27 | For me it has become almost comically prolonged , because it seems to have very little to with the colour of my hair . |
| 28 | It aims to place nearly all the children with permanent family , though workers may decide some are too damaged or too old and would be better off with foster parents . |
| 29 | But it helps to show Clearly that doubt is everybody 's problem . |
| 30 | That means a concerted attack on poverty and it means attaching far more importance to early crime prevention measures , such as the development of pre-school provision . |