Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The numerous cracks and fissures in the walls , which on every side present themselves , denote that at no very distant period this disgrace to the parish in which it stands will effectively remove itself .
2 London-based controller developer Pacific Semiconductor ( Europe ) Ltd has introduced its new Laserboost board that it says can radically improve the performance of Canon Inc SX , RX and TX-based laser printers like the LaserJet II and III , Brother HL8E and Canon LBP8II for a fraction of the cost of a new machine : the board takes only 15 minutes to install and costs just £380 ; it features Hewlett-Packard Co PCL 5 printer language , eight scalable fonts , a 20MHz 68020 processor , proprietary ASICs and Direct Memory Access through the parallel port ; it also has from 2Mb of memory , one independent and two parallel ports , offering HP7475A plotter emulation .
3 Caroline had a friend called Jocelin who visited No. 45 , and who it seemed might even decide to live there .
4 I beg that those who are responsible for making it work will now take full advantage of the opportunities .
5 Once again , the kind of play and the extent of mathematical experience which it includes will inevitably vary .
6 Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty .
7 The focus of change was organisational arrangements , in the sanguine belief that if the framework of the school was altered then the processes of education which it enshrined would also alter to support a strong definition of equality of opportunity .
8 A broad interpretation of what it means would greatly expand the number of crimes for which access to legal advice could be delayed .
9 Mr Goodwin then phoned the company to check his facts , and it took out an injunction to prevent his publishers , Morgan Grampian , publishing the information — which it said could severely damage confidence among customers and suppliers .
10 How long it lasted must also remain a mystery , as must the rise of its probable successor at Hereford , where Anglian settlers known as the Magonsaete were well established by AD 691 .
11 But a better understanding of how it works could also shed light on other questions concerned with the development of sensory nerve cells .
12 Unemployment and the poverty it brings can never justify criminal behaviour but it does , very often , explain it and the Conservatives ' refusal to accept the fact undermines their entire approach to law and order .
13 Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems .
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