Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups . |
| 3 | From here it goes east to pass to the north of Cawston before arriving in Aylesham . |
| 4 | Willis Faber is holding back almost half the shares until it receives shareholder backing for the sale at a meeting on November 29 . |
| 5 | It represents Padmapani holding a blue lotus , and is located at one side of a cell entrance . |
| 6 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 7 | Third , the ‘ pinch point ’ at the entrance to St. Giles St. is a good idea in that it slows traffic intending to turn left off The Mound ; however , there is a similar problem at the top of Market St. , and a raised paved crossing there , perhaps also with a pedestrian crossing , would be an improvement . |
| 8 | It involves computer based work on social and spatial change at the national , regional and local authority levels ; locality research on housing markets and labour markets ; household research on the unemployed , the elderly and newly married couples . |
| 9 | Would n't it make would n't it make sense to set aside a figure annually for advertising beyond which you do n't go . |
| 10 | Does it make sense to suppose that , as in The Andromeda Strain , members of a crew sent out to recover a satellite would be infected and killed by an exobiological organism it carried ? |
| 11 | Does it make sense to suggest that acellular creatures evolved out of a ‘ reality ’ which is relative only to a human-style perceptive system of mind and sense organ ? |
| 12 | And if Unix is destined to dominate mainstream data processing , does n't it make sense to run it at the desktop as well — why have two different — and ultimately competing — operating system worlds when the expressed ideal is to have everything working seamlessly together from desktop to the multiprocessor servers that threaten to supplant the monolithic mainframe ? |
| 13 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 14 | Does it make sense to buy an annuity ? |
| 15 | In tennis , it offers colour sprayed , modified bitumen macadams , and ‘ Smash ’ and ‘ Soft ’ grass surfaces . |
| 16 | I will accept that you are designing it to enable humanity to select and rear a future generation that is peaceful and creative rather than aggressive and destructive , that your personal motives are good . |
| 17 | It aids clarity to reserve the term analysis to mean the acquisition of evidence and description to mean the presentation of the evidence . |
| 18 | We never heard the last from Mum about God 's bounty from the vegetable garden ; it made Dad seem like some kind of honorary clergyman . |
| 19 | As every flat needs to have these service spaces , and such spaces occupy a fixed minimum area in a flat of any size , it made sense to maximise this internal accommodation in order to utilise fully the broad interior , and this was achieved by making the majority of flats one-bedroom or bedsitter units . |
| 20 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 21 | It made sense to leave them where they would be used . |
| 22 | If he was going to adopt this strategy , it made sense to do so as soon as possible — before new legislative elections renewed parliament 's mandate and while Algeria was still fresh in people 's memories . |
| 23 | Nine out of 10 said it made sense to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 24 | He was already out there , virtually his spiritual home according to his team-mates back in Taunton , and it made sense to put him on alert . |
| 25 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 26 | WITH the Mantes operation committed to specialist and innovative products , it made sense to move the OPP pilot line to France from Bridgwater in the UK . |
| 27 | Asked whether , in this increasingly environment-conscious world it made sense to use expensive oak or metal caskets , Miss Vincent said . |
| 28 | The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses , without foods . |
| 29 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 30 | It made sense to assume that Yuan and Zukov would throw themselves to the right of the line of fire , but he did not wait for them to act . |