Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 2 | Although a native of southern Europe , it has become naturalized in the rest of Europe , and is now grown commercially . |
| 3 | It has become traditional in the West ( as well as in the former Soviet Union ) to move publication dates of new books on Chernobyl as close to the anniversary of the accident as possible . |
| 4 | It has become commonplace in educational debates to assert that schools should reflect cultural differences , that the divisions within the school population are cultural ones , represented in different ethnic identities . |
| 5 | It has forgotten about its opponent ; it has become interested in the architecture . |
| 6 | Owing in part to their lower cost , it has become popular in recent years to replace both clay plain tiles and slates with interlocking concrete tiles . |
| 7 | Essentially , that is the issue in the debates which opened up in the Enlightenment period , and it has remained central in theology ever since . |
| 8 | Whatever criticisms may be made of the STV there is no denying that it has proved viable in its own fashion in twenty-two general elections in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 9 | It has proved successful in stopping smoking , and with skin disorders , migraine , ulcers , Irritable Bowel Syndrome and other conditions associated with anxiety and stress , including asthma , insomnia and phobias . |
| 10 | It has proved excellent in South Africa since 1903 , especially in cooler areas with a higher rainfall where the Brahman and Africander are not successful . |
| 11 | However that myth has been laid to rest for good in Germany 's pedestrianised city centres and unsurprisingly it has proved unfounded in the experimental areas too . |
| 12 | It has used these in its work on open cast sites for British Coal , but it also operates under licence some small , deep mines of its own . |
| 13 | The annoyances , injustices , and setbacks from which it suffered seem small in retrospect , but they preyed on the minds of its members at the time . |
| 14 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 15 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 16 | So it helps to put that in the brackets . |
| 17 | It helps to put that in a smaller bracket , when I go three times that , minus that . |
| 18 | So should we be able to wear what we feel comfortable in , even if it means going casual in shorts and T-shirts ? |
| 19 | Though popularity did not necessarily translate into greater recognition in official circles , it did inhibit those in the two governments who would have liked to ditch him altogether . |
| 20 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94 , with zero net profit . |
| 21 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993–94 , with zero net profit . |
| 22 | On Sept. 30-Oct. 1 it had come second in a rival poll for a National Congress , behind the National Independence Party ( which also boycotted the Oct. 28 elections ) . |
| 23 | It had come true in Jesus himself . |
| 24 | The system of " Red Routes " ( urban clearways with stringent parking restrictions ) , currently under trial in London , would be extended , after initial studies showed that it had proved successful in cutting journey times by up to 30 per cent . |
| 25 | It had seemed right in that split second ; now she wished with all her heart that she had n't done it . |
| 26 | It does get warm in the ballroom , especially when there are so many present . |
| 27 | At the same time , using Todorov 's distinction , it does seem possible in relation to television narrative genres or subgenres to identify classical tendencies which depend — in the last instance — on conformity to rules and conventions for their verisimilitude , and to distinguish them from naturalist tendencies whose verisimilitude makes claims to be grounded in social reality — or at least claims to represent what people believe to be true . |
| 28 | I , I , I , I do n't think we should pass too lightly over what Mrs has said , it does seem extraordinary in that , er , someone who 's locked out of their house , and the fire service comes along and opens the door for them comes under office , and mains and miscellaneous , and then a major , er , a plane crash is also classified like that . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's gone three in the morning ! ’ she gasped , and his face told her he was well aware of it . |
| 30 | Oh my god one to ten it 's got one in there already , so what have I got in there ? |