Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wh what about er runway lengths , obviously depends on what it 's carrying but er how how does it compare with existing aircraft for that ? |
| 2 | And did did you see th w was it widespread , did you see it happening to other people ? |
| 3 | Starts with a whiff of charcoal and a hint of fire-lighter , then it develops into rich fruit tinged with cedar and mint . |
| 4 | Fujitsu will hand over the goods from houses in Darlington that it used for Japanese staff while the new factory was being built and equipped . |
| 5 | It looks like smoked salmon and tastes like nothing on earth , but I gave it her the day before his next ward round . |
| 6 | It looks like dried fish . |
| 7 | I would like to outline some of the major terms of the legislation , the far reaching implications it has for unemployed people and what we as a local group are trying to do to combat it . |
| 8 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 9 | You also have to think of the effect it has on other people , how er if you just let people get away with it , it does n't mean you hate them , loathe them and damn them but er you 've got to make them realise that for other people , for everybody . |
| 10 | At 1988/89 rates ( Home Office , 1990b , p. 110 ) , it cost on average £288 per week to keep an offender in custody , compared with £19 per week to supervise an offender on probation ; yet the Home Office acknowledge : ‘ It is hard to show any effect that one type of sentence is more likely than any other to reduce the likelihood of reoffending , which is high for all ’ ( p. 7 ) . |
| 11 | For many years it was accepted that two-tone fish ( it occurs with other species , but rarely ) are the result of winter hibernation , the dark portion of the fish being the part that is buried in bottom mud . |
| 12 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 13 | Among problems raising doubts over the ‘ special relationship ’ before Mr Major 's arrival was a claim that Airbus Industrie , the consortium which includes British Aerospace , had received unfair subsidies to help it compete with American aircraft builders . |
| 14 | I 've seen it happen to new people coming in as well . |
| 15 | When they do not work effectively , the unmitigated anger may well seep out in constant irritation over relatively trivial things or , as it seems to other people , may suddenly and unexpectedly break out with a degree of force inappropriate to the circumstances . |
| 16 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 17 | Neither would it allow for flexible staff allocation to meet the needs of children with particular disabilities . |
| 18 | So it pays for cryptic species to die soon after their breeding period is over . |
| 19 | ‘ There is when it tramples on other people 's lives ! ’ |
| 20 | It 's a it 's a grea it 's a great play , I 've seen it performed by other people and it 's a great evening . |
| 21 | Was it I mean when the actual decision was made to ge to get rid of that property that was there prior to the flats , was that a controversial decision or was it welcomed by local people who ? |
| 22 | His own task was to make sure , no matter how it appeared to other people , that he constantly checked across from his private life of personal belief — and back again — to the professional , public and accountable life of a head . |
| 23 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 24 | It implies to young people that crack and cocaine are no more dangerous than a glass of wine , beer or spirits . |
| 25 | ‘ And no matter what hurt it gives to other people , I presume . ’ |
| 26 | And you can widen it to take in other people 's lines and movements so they act as springboards for you . |
| 27 | It needs to be recast , so that it extends beyond academic staff to embrace the student body . |
| 28 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 29 | The National Children 's Home wants the government to re-think the provision it makes for young people , increasing benefits for those on training courses and setting up grants for those leaving care . |