Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it involves such things as finding new uses for old products or showing how solutions considered impracticable can be made to work . |
| 2 | Because it involves more things . |
| 3 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 4 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
| 5 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 6 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 7 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 8 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 9 | It has good things about Gore , about Hoskyns , about Temple . |
| 10 | It is hoped that this chapter will not be dismissed as an arid academic ground-clearing exercise , since it has important things to say about the most appropriate way to approach the subject of the book . |
| 11 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 12 | a right high one but it had er , had it got all things on top ? |
| 13 | What has it got little things on the bottom ? |
| 14 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 15 | And mainframe sales still generate enough profit to enable it to do other things . |
| 16 | It takes most things in its stride , and it 's a very easy car to drive . |
| 17 | Why does it lay these things on you ? |
| 18 | It seems some things never change . |
| 19 | It seems some things never change . |
| 20 | It included such things as reliability . |
| 21 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 22 | To the miner , it meant two things : a rarity discovered and bread for his table . |
| 23 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 24 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 25 | ‘ I could see what he was thinking , so I started talking about love , how it means different things to different people , and that 's when he said it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I remember when we first came here on honeymoon it did wonderful things to you , Stephen . |
| 27 | It did funny things to her insides — she thought it was about time to study the menu . |
| 28 | In fact it was already a quality of Britten 's music before Grimes that it said new things with material which , on closer inspection , often turned out to be surprisingly familiar and straightforward . |
| 29 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 30 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |