Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is telling it to go now look , you see he 's put on his lights . |
| 2 | It involves sharply cut three-piece suits , or carefully pressed Italian pastel casuals for the male , and a whole range of feminine clobber in similar icecream pastels for women , including the down-market fashion accent of summer 1984 : totally impractical white fabric ankle boots . |
| 3 | In other years , as in the spring of 1982 , a protracted spring drought slowed the growth of the sward and it became tightly graze . |
| 4 | Both the origins of classical unemployment and the nature of the remedy for it remain stubbornly obscure . |
| 5 | Although it made little progress its symbolic importance ( the first such meeting to be held ) was considerable . |
| 6 | It looks so do n't it ? |
| 7 | It has little influence on places along the route , but a powerful one on those at the ends of it . ’ |
| 8 | It has also become involved in the Work-out scheme in London , which aims to help the young unemployed take an active approach to life . |
| 9 | Though there is little doubt that all these aspects of the State are valuable and important , it has also become clear that they can form the basis of a very one-sided picture . |
| 10 | The story is true but it has also become part of the myth . |
| 11 | It has also become well established not only in mainland Britain but in other countries . |
| 12 | This is basically a protective action , an attempt to save the eyes from possible danger , but it has also become a way of reducing the unbearable tension of the moment . |
| 13 | The revived magazine , now printed in Finland has , it is generally agreed , become even more polished and elegant , but it has also become considerably more expensive . |
| 14 | In addition to direct , or personal , control it has also become usual to distinguish a form of control which is incorporated within ( impersonal ) technological structures . |
| 15 | It has also become clear that dreaming is by no means confined to REM sleep ( see Chapter 5 ) , so even if the theory was correct , the regime of REM sleep deprivation would not have been an adequate test of it . |
| 16 | It has also become so familiar that it tends to overshadow the running , although it is the running from which the potency is derived . |
| 17 | Local government has become more professionalized but it has also become more bureaucratic . |
| 18 | Feminism has a particular investment in this , since it has also become clear that the dominant theories of modernism , inherited from the Enlightenment ( liberalism , marxism , positivism , humanism ) , are fundamentally ‘ masculinist ’ or androcentric . |
| 19 | It has also become evident from recent literature that there was nothing like a " simultaneous " extinction of many different groups , either within the brachiopods alone or within the organic world in general , at the end of the Permian ; I am told that plant spores , at least , still show an uncannily rapid change at this level all round the world , though the big change in plant macrofossils seems to have come much later . |
| 20 | It has also become apparent that , as well as trying to change teachers ' practices , there must be a determined attempt to make concurrent changes in the school as a whole . |
| 21 | It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van . |
| 22 | It has also run a distance learning programme for 628 students in 12 countries . |
| 23 | It has just become a reality . |
| 24 | The idea that arousal , or activation , constitutes a unitary physiological dimension was important to a number of theorists particularly in the late fifties ( e.g. Duffy , 1962 ; Lindsley , 1951 ; Malmo , 1959 ) , however , it has since become clear that the numerous physiological measures which have been taken as different indices of arousal are in fact not highly correlated ( Cattell , 1972 ) . |
| 25 | It has since become the dreaded archetype of business bureaucracy : the £10 letter . |
| 26 | It has thus become a vicious circle of spoken mumbo jumbo . |
| 27 | Since the late nineteenth century it has thus become increasingly difficult for critics interested in contemporary literature to ignore problems of linguistic form . |
| 28 | It has thus become chaotic . |
| 29 | It has even become parodiable , always a sign of growing respectability . |
| 30 | It has already become fashionable to knock Kylie Minogue but I can take it , ’ she added . |