Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong seems reluctant to take the pressure off China by letting the deadline slip unless it agrees to talks . |
| 2 | It veers from pieces that sound stilted and scripted to free-form passages when the Jamesons hold what they consider to be a conversation . |
| 3 | It plays with dolls but can not get interested . |
| 4 | One does n't have to be a reader of Shakespeare to know that there are many enduring human characteristics , but when it comes to work , and the part it plays in individuals ' lives , what they bring to it , and their expectations of it , one sees an enormous rate of change . |
| 5 | It differs from systems such as HARPY in that the search space is fully 3-dimensional , graphs of words and phrases being produced on top of a graph of phoneme hypotheses . |
| 6 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 7 | The frontier between France and Spain runs along the estuary of the Bidassoa and then for some little way along the river itself , until it turns at right-angles to the east , leaving the Bidassoa exclusively to Spain . |
| 8 | Birth spacing is sometimes used synonymously with birth timing ( see intervals ) , but usually it refers to efforts aiming to achieve the " proper " ( healthy , economic or convenient ) timing of births either consciously ( by planning and controlling the timing of births ) or in accordance with traditions ( by following customs relevant to breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence which assure the " proper " spacing ) , and the results of such efforts as they are manifested in the birth intervals . |
| 9 | ‘ Private schools ’ has a narrow sense , now slightly archaic , in which it refers to schools run for profit by teacher-entrepreneurs ( a minority , especially at secondary level ) ; in this sense , the term ‘ private schools ’ is opposed to ‘ public schools ’ , which are not profit-making . |
| 10 | To be strictly accurate a species can be defined precisely only in living animals , where it refers to populations that can interbreed under natural conditions , and which produce offspring that are capable of further reproducing their kind . |
| 11 | excluded if it refers to arrangements between a body corporate and another body corporate within the same group or is in connection with a joint enterprise as noted above |
| 12 | If the foreigner made that transfer in the past before he became ordinarily resident here the clause would not apply to him because in its opening words it refers to individuals ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | The cast-iron disc brakes work with four-pot calipers and it rides on 10ins rims at the front and 14ins at the rear . |
| 14 | In so far as we have evidence about regional comparisons , it points to continuities rather than differences . |
| 15 | The main problem with nitrogen oxide is that it contributes to forms of photochemical pollution such as ozone , which in high levels can cause eye , nose and throat irritation and affect the respiratory system attacking the lungs . |
| 16 | This contrasts with , for instance , the soil scientist 's interest in weathering which stems from a concern for the way it contributes to differences in soil characteristics and the release and movement of nutrients . |
| 17 | It contributes to theories of the role of the legal and other professions by clarifying what their services provide ; their creative techniques for subversion as well as routine servicing for compliance with the law . |
| 18 | It goes beyond thanks … ’ |
| 19 | Whether it goes through computers in America or in the desert , the information can be with commanders in the field in a matter of minutes . |
| 20 | tends to be a little bit on the first page then it goes onto pages like two , three , all different pages with small sections |
| 21 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 22 | It goes to pieces like quicksilver under my touch . ’ |
| 23 | If you ever try to do a ha a demonstration for anybody erm or a group of people involving a sort of manual skill , you find that it goes to pieces if it 's not a very well rehearsed skill , whereas you find you can actually get very your performance is a lot better when you 've got an audience if you know the skill very well . |
| 24 | None of it goes on salaries or administration because all of that is covered by sponsorship or by the interest on banked money . |
| 25 | What used to happen was that rain would fall on land and permeate through the ground to the ground water levels , but urbanisation has meant more roads , houses , car parks and the water ca n't soak through , instead it goes into drains , is treated and then goes into the sea . |
| 26 | It goes in stages , as follows : |
| 27 | The Public Service Ideal does not assume , against all the evidence , that a free market will necessarily produce political access , variety , and debate ; it insists upon mechanisms which aim directly at these goals rather than relying upon their being achieved as the accidental by-products of mechanisms whose primary function is to achieve quite different goals such as commercial profitability or proprietorial self-indulgence . |
| 28 | Your basic problem concerns the speed at which your LaserJet can turn the data it receives into dots on paper . |
| 29 | The church is attended by a minority of the foreign residents on the island and relies a great deal on the support it receives from visitors . |
| 30 | The effect is that the vendor must account to Newco for any deductions it receives from Customs , and Newco must indemnify the vendor for any payments due to Customs . |