Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It make take several weeks before you win — but you will , I am sure , eventually be victorious . |
| 2 | Structure exists at various levels of consciousness ( or unconsciousness ) and although its relationship to mundane ‘ reality ’ ( the Marxist ‘ infrastructure ’ whose ultimate importance Lévi-Strauss periodically acknowledges ) is often tangential and tenuous , it helps resolve such fundamental contradictions and antinomies as that between nature and culture , self-interest and the common good , and , more immediately , certain basic conflicts inherent in particular forms of social organization . |
| 3 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 4 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |
| 5 | Though popularity did not necessarily translate into greater recognition in official circles , it did inhibit those in the two governments who would have liked to ditch him altogether . |
| 6 | Francis Bacon , writing in 1627 said ‘ The Turks have a pretty art of chambletting paper which is not in use with us ’ , though , in fact , it did reach this country at about that date . |
| 7 | The committee 's general ambivalence probably reflected its membership though it did admit that recent investigations suggested that to some extent investment was going abroad because of the unfavourable economic environment at home . |
| 8 | Despite the limitations of the survey it did suggest some clear habitat preferences and population trends . |
| 9 | But it did serve another purpose . |
| 10 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 11 | Direction , one felt , was needed , and up to a point , with soloists Neil Black and William Bennett , it did make some impact . |
| 12 | However , it did detect all of the following viruses : Haifa , Involunt , Maltese Amoeba , V2P2 , V2P6 , V2p6Z , Word-1391 , Word-1485 , PCFlu-2 and Tequila . |
| 13 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
| 14 | It did resemble those used on certain other B.E.T . |
| 15 | So at least ran the theory , and , for a time , it did operate that way , very much along the lines of the Athenian polis in its democratic phase . |
| 16 | Er it 's a matter of speculation as to whether it did play any part . |
| 17 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
| 18 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , at the time it did look that way . ’ |
| 20 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 21 | The aviation business suffered from depressed trading conditions in the industry , although it did win several valuable new contracts . |
| 22 | Soon , carving etiquette might well be as developed and intricate a ritual as chess and , when it did get that advanced it would probably be in Wimbledon but , for the moment , Henry was faced with the unattractive prospect of involuntary double murder . |
| 23 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |
| 24 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 25 | But it did take some time . |
| 26 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 27 | However , it did provide some valuable indications of what to expect in the races ahead . |
| 28 | If it did have such a cause of action , then the court would have power to award interest from the moment it arose by virtue of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 29 | That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 . |
| 30 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |