Example sentences of "it [vb infin] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it affect the communal resource of food , services , capital ? |
| 2 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 3 | Nor does it want the German tail to wag the European dog . |
| 4 | The other party forms the opposition ; criticises the government ; keeps its ear to the ground of public opinion ; and stands ready to form a government should it win the next election . |
| 5 | Should it produce the rounded man , versed in life 's rich mysteries , yet having an awareness of his responsibilities to his craft , or should it procreate the technical expert whose knowledge of all things professional is without equal ? |
| 6 | ‘ Will it bring the fair name of the squadron into disrepute ? ’ |
| 7 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 8 | But would it provide the same control over the politicians ' fiscal integrity ? |
| 9 | Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement . |
| 10 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 11 | Only when the water is very high will it run the other way . |
| 12 | Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something . |
| 13 | Not only did it furnish the missing equation of the Keynesian system , it had also assumed a role of paramount significance in the formulation of macroeconomic policy . |
| 14 | Not until it is four or five months old does it discover the remarkable fact that water can be sniffed up into a trunk and then , if you blow out , you can hose it into your mouth . |
| 15 | At the close of the interview , I said forcibly that , if a press statement were to be released , on no account must it contain the usual smear phrases . |
| 16 | Not only does it invert the natural sequence of events in a given life by interpreting origins and development in the light of conclusions ( teleological falsification ) ; it also selects particular ideas , events and utterances for interpretation within the framework of a preferred intellectual system ( ideological falsification ) . |
| 17 | Inflation is one of th , or yeah , not inflation itself , but the premium will go up by A , the new cost of the benefit what else would it take the new premium rate |
| 18 | and Aconite , nor does it have the general disturbance ; the aching limbs , the general soreness , the fever and thirst . |
| 19 | I wonder if you grind it up and smoke it in a pipe with tobacco , would it have the same effect ? |
| 20 | Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system . |
| 21 | The Open Software Foundation has tapped Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Integrated Computer Solutions Inc to help it develop the next version of Motif . |
| 22 | Not only does it neutralize the free lime , but also seals the pool by internal glazing . |
| 23 | Should it produce the rounded man , versed in life 's rich mysteries , yet having an awareness of his responsibilities to his craft , or should it procreate the technical expert whose knowledge of all things professional is without equal ? |
| 24 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 25 | A great deal has been written , in the last few months , about the Institute 's ability to straddle two horses at the same time : can it serve the public interest while serving members ' interests ? |
| 26 | You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way . |
| 27 | If that makes that happen that way what makes it go the opposite way ? |
| 28 | If so , can it support the necessary level of borrowing ( or even an acceptable level of borrowing ) to ensure that the pain is minimised in the recycled debt ? |
| 29 | The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica . |
| 30 | That would have the merit of simplicity , but would it strike the right note socially ? |