Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [conj] [det] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As these books are supposed to be read by adults to children , I do n't think it matters that some of the jokes are probably lost on four year olds .
2 It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life .
3 Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 .
4 It appears that many of these young people are both educational achievers and from affluent home backgrounds .
5 He mainly collected Italian and Flemish paintings of the 16 and 17C and it appears that some of the paintings were bought from the Kunstkammer of Emperor Rudolf II .
6 On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set .
7 It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection .
8 Section 11 permits the revocation of an authorisation if , inter alia , it appears that any of the criteria specified in Schedule 3 is not or has not been fulfilled by the institution concerned .
9 In contrast , it appears that most of the distinguishing features are the result of differences in the national , rather than in the industry , environments ( Derber , 1976 ) .
10 It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages .
11 If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission .
12 It seems that many of the communities trading with Minoan Crete caught something of the flavour of its culture , whether material or spiritual , and developed it in their own way .
13 Of even greater importance is the fact that it seems that many of the Roman estates , the holdings belonging to villas and towns , continued into the post-Roman period and beyond to emerge as the basic administrative units of late Saxon and medieval England .
14 If the notes of elderly patients alleged to have died from asthma are examined it seems that most of them had fixed airways obstruction , with little evidence of having had asthma , and that most died of something else .
15 In general , it seems that those with atopic symptoms — hay-fever , perennial rhinitis , asthma or urticaria — are far more likely to respond to dietary treatment .
16 The authors of the survey say that there was very little ‘ in the way of political activism ’ on the part of the Law Lords whose contribution to debates on bills was largely that of acting as ‘ resident technical consultants to the legislature on legal points ’ and it seems that those with records of overt political affiliation did not speak more than others .
17 It seems that those in favour of a change in the present restrictions have won the day ; for the repeal of s39 of the Solicitors Act was specifically designed to facilitate MDPs .
18 It seems that some of these proteins might have a significant part to play in the treatment of nerve injury , neuropathies and tumours of glial cell origin .
19 If , after acceptance of such a claim , it emerges that any of the information provided was incorrect or incomplete , the capital gains tax position in relation to the transfer will be computed and assessments made as appropriate .
20 As I 've used a book intended for humans to find out which herbs to use ( Helping yourself with natural remedies by Terry Willard ) , it follows that some of the plants they would naturally respond to , would be useful to treat disorders in mankind .
21 Some of them were procedural rather than , it does n't mean that there is eleven things wrong with or the actual survey , it means that some of the things were raised during that , I think that there was a couple of things raised by accounts in that , the fact you do n't send a budget form .
22 If this is the case , it implies that some at least of the feedback systems maintaining human wellbeing may be in difficulties simply because they are being called upon to function near the limits of their capacity .
23 Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw .
24 In particular , it suggests that many of the explanations which children produce at school will be produced in response to the teacher 's test questions , and so will serve to display rather than transmit knowledge .
25 His essay , ‘ Of Parents and Children ’ , still makes salutary reading , and by no means sings the praises of paternity ; it suggests that most of the ‘ noblest works ’ of civilisation have been accomplished by the childless .
26 As the histological damage did not change in harmony with the inflammation and blood loss , it suggests that most of the chronic intestinal blood loss is from the small intestine .
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