Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products . |
| 2 | It points out advantages to my divorced state I had n't thought of before . ’ |
| 3 | Okay , so there is sexism but it goes both ways [ oo-er ! — Miss W ] . |
| 4 | It goes over needles selected by punched holes and under needles selected by blanks . |
| 5 | Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse . |
| 6 | Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse . |
| 7 | It offers both traders and customers a high level of certainty as to exactly what is on offer . |
| 8 | But this story is definitely false ; and it illustrates how myths can grow up , especially concerning the great . |
| 9 | It has not rituals whatever to deal with distress and grief resulting from a difficult birth or a pregnancy that ends in death . |
| 10 | Professor Mathias has raised the question of whether such complaints should be viewed as valid description or as opinion indicative of employer attitudes.24 In fact it has both dimensions . |
| 11 | It has both gills and lungs , lays its eggs in a nest in the bottom of a stream and remains in water throughout its life . |
| 12 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 13 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 14 | Oh well , it depends how things turn out — we 'll see — soon enough — is it a good idea to go there or not ? |
| 15 | The reforming jurists , on the other hand , saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects , as juridical subjects ; it uses not marks , but signs , coded sets of representations , which would be given the most rapid circulation and the most general acceptance possible by citizens witnessing the scene of punishment . |
| 16 | It describes how objects move through space and time . |
| 17 | At the moment it says , it describes how suggestions for improvements to the systems and procedures are generated . |
| 18 | It is only known to breed in the Gulf area , where it digs out burrows in the sand and , as its name suggests , it feeds almost exclusively on crabs . |
| 19 | The company will probably discover , to its chagrin , that it cuts both ways . |
| 20 | Because it cuts both ways . |
| 21 | I 'd just bought her record ‘ It Cuts Both Ways ’ . |
| 22 | It 's a bit unfair on Dickens taking out such incredibly ghastly stuff from his book , but I , I do think it shows , it shows how women were expected to behave . |
| 23 | It shows how costs increase for each resident as the quantity of the local public good increases . |
| 24 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 25 | First , the description of language as a code is too limiting if it conjures up analogies with signalling systems such as the morse code , or more widely with such systems of rules as the highway code or a legal code . |
| 26 | It conjures up images of Victorian family evenings round the piano . |
| 27 | It conjures up images of the old Nimble bread adverts with the girl in the balloon , or the bit in The Snowman where the kid flies over the coast . |
| 28 | Ironically , one graduate of the 1980s remarks , in the same publication , that she finds the idea of being called an embroiderer quite amusing because it conjures up images of the edges of tablecloths ’ . |
| 29 | Costs tend to be be I mean it costs now costs are those of doing things by hand . |
| 30 | The law does not , however , regard such societies ( unless formally incorporated ) as having any corporate personality ; it sees only individuals , owning property , it may be , in common , with rights and duties towards each other flowing from the contract , or rather series of contracts , to be found in the society 's rules ; for on every change in the membership a new contract must be implied . |