Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 2 | It allies itself with no political party , no outside cause . |
| 3 | It irritates him beyond measure that she is nearly always right about everything . ’ |
| 4 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 5 | But when I think about how I feel for you , it turns me into a Hercules and I feel I can conquer the world . ’ |
| 6 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 7 | It turns you to jelly . |
| 8 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 10 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 11 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 12 | Every time you think you 've sussed this game it kicks you in the arse . ’ |
| 13 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 14 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 15 | It soileth my soul , It leadeth me into deep waters , |
| 16 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 17 | it points us towards the reasons for visiting ancient sites : each has its own unique atmosphere which we can literally take into our very being . |
| 18 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 19 | And it goes something like this . |
| 20 | It goes something like this : ‘ It is all very well to exhort people to behave properly in their personal relationships but law on such matters is unenforceable . |
| 21 | ‘ It goes something like this , ’ Rosalba replied , improvising , |
| 22 | If I just read out what I was going to suggest Simon described the new system for approvals it goes something like erm , sorry it 's 9.9 , all approvals are recorded on research approval forms full stop . |
| 23 | if it goes anything like that plan , I think that that carport looks hideous , actually . |
| 24 | It impresses itself upon you subliminally . |
| 25 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 26 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 27 | If it receives one about a member who is a partner in a firm of registered auditors , a copy of the complainant 's letter is sent to the ARC , which will consider whether this should have any effect on the firm 's continued registration . |
| 28 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 29 | Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy . |
| 30 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |