Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It testifies both to a new realism in Moscow 's approach to the country 's profound economic crisis , and acknowledgement by the Western financial community that red-blooded free market therapy can not alone provide the answer . |
| 2 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90-10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 3 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90–10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 4 | The semi-set jelly has a deliciously seductive , viscous quality as it trembles briefly in the mouth before slipping , fragrant and alcoholic , down the throat . |
| 5 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 6 | The next logical step is to look at the idea of Highlander , to see how it operates , and how it differs completely from a conventional school for community organisers . |
| 7 | But , as was explained in sections 1.1 and 1.2 , it differs markedly from the alternative , commonly held perspective which sees each country 's economy as essentially an integrated whole , exporting any surplus of goods , capital or finance , or importing in response to a deficit . |
| 8 | It differs slightly from the average salary which is which is the best year out of the last three . |
| 9 | If the transferor bothers to read the transfer form he will find that it differs slightly from the one that he would have used if he transferred his shares to his wife or children . |
| 10 | It differs substantially from a conventional yoghurt in that it is made only from organic milk using traditional methods which do n't adulterate the ‘ whole ’ product . |
| 11 | Under the Land and Compensation Act , Renfrew District Council does not have to entertain a further application within two years unless it differs substantially from the original . |
| 12 | The council does not have to consider a new application within two years , unless it differs substantially from the original . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , it differs only in the way it 's played . ’ |
| 14 | It differs greatly from the family-based structuring of human life with its stress on the long-term bond between mates . |
| 15 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 16 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 17 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 18 | Back on the main road , it turns right at the junction in Gleann Beag , passing a complex of handsome farm buildings , and ascends a long incline where much-needed improvements have taken place . |
| 19 | It turns out in the end that , that , all the readings were in there it 's just a matter locating them ! |
| 20 | We corkscrewed on our way working towards the lee of the Buchan coast , where it turns westward into the Firth . |
| 21 | A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach . |
| 22 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 23 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 24 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 25 | It refers also to the reproduction of the labour force . |
| 26 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 27 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 28 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 29 | MARRIAGE — It refers both to the social institution that sets up and sanctions the union of persons of opposite sex ( see family ) and to the state of being married . |
| 30 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |