Example sentences of "it [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 2 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 3 | What I 've done now is taken you through to the point where , we 're asking ourselves what is it that management make a mess of ? |
| 4 | Do n't forget you can look at this , Y equals X plus one times X minus one , which , when you see it that way tells you where it 's going to , where its roots are . |
| 5 | I had to do it that way did n't I ? |
| 6 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 7 | Let's just leave it that music has wings , that song floats free even through prison bars . |
| 8 | For example magnesium chloride holds water within its crystal lattice and if you dry it that water comes out , but as it comes out it also strips out the chlorine as hydrogen chloride gas for example . |
| 9 | How he had overcome all the complex problems of graft-rejection , septicaemia , and so on — not to mention the central problem of bestowing life — was beyond me , although I took it that fortune had favoured his researches . |
| 10 | How is it that faith has been so divorced from knowledge ? |
| 11 | Where where was it that anaesthetist stayed that you and |
| 12 | Critics it that time excluded authors inconvenient for their picture of a general return to tradition : Todd himself has little to say about authors such as B. S. Johnson and Christine Brooke-Rose , mostly on the grounds that they belong to a counter-cultural avant-garde never identified with the mainstream of British writing . |
| 13 | Legend has it that Tax Exempt Special Savings Accounts ( Tessas ) originated in 1990 eve-of-Budget , back-of-an-envelope doodlings made up by John Major when he was Chancellor . |
| 14 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 15 | So then his Scott 's mum and Noel 's mum met in town and they were just talking and Scott 's mum it 's dis , God it 's disgusting is n't it that lad given all them little lads love bites ! |
| 16 | There was no limit to the amount of money which could be used during any given assignment but at the end of it each operative had to account to Kolchinsky for his or her expenses in tabular form , supplying the relevant chits to back up the figurework . |
| 17 | At it each speaker emphasised this fundamental point . |
| 18 | 500 use it each year to get specialist information about their crops . |
| 19 | Er is it each country has one |
| 20 | He checks it each morning to see whether it is going to rain . |
| 21 | Was it some demon raised by a witch or warlock ? |
| 22 | Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business . |
| 23 | So you 've got to give it some heat to help the oxygen to work . |
| 24 | Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed . |
| 25 | Oh I I do n't usually recommend it some people do and find it easier that way I I would rather they just stuck with the the formula for differentiating a product and |
| 26 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |
| 27 | ‘ When was it this reconciliation took place ? ’ |
| 28 | I suppose doing it this way limits the no of participants to how many I can cope with . |
| 29 | Put it this way Trace I am more petrified than about this than you are . |
| 30 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |