Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 2 | And it goes something like this . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It goes something like this , ’ Rosalba replied , improvising , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | if it goes anything like that plan , I think that that carport looks hideous , actually . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 9 | Now , after every Hong Kong citizen with a television set has seen how Peking treats its dissenters , it offers nothing to a public whose mood has become one of restrained panic . |
| 10 | It offers none of the support for removable drives ( floppies and Syquest volumes ) that Stacker provides , which some will doubtless miss , but is purely and simply ( and simple is the watch word here ) a device for squeezing more data onto a fixed disk drive . |
| 11 | Mr Wakeley is enthusiastic about CD-Rom 's potential : ‘ It offers lots of advantages , it 's cheap , safe and the discs ca n't be erased . |
| 12 | Relatively undemanding , it needs plenty of light and iron fertilisation . |
| 13 | Spacing should be about 23cm ( 9in ) , and it needs plenty of sun and well-drained but fertile soil . |
| 14 | It needs somebody with or whatever you see . |
| 15 | i , but it needs two of us , it needs somebody on the inside and somebody on the out just to stop them flying through it . |
| 16 | ‘ Ideally it needs someone from Alton . |
| 17 | The secret of Proudfoot 's success is hard to encapsulate but it owes something to its leadership in productivity consultancy , advice which is likely to have enduring appeal when times are hard . |
| 18 | It owes everything to the puppets but the tongue is firmly in the cheek for this production of Thunderbirds … |
| 19 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 20 | The museum 's collection is vast , for it covers everything from windmills to space exploration . |
| 21 | It covers everything from ‘ abjuration of the realm ’ to the ‘ Young England Movement ’ , and has a lengthy chronology . |
| 22 | So it 's really a case of just ensuring that the T G I manual does cover all a , it , it needs to state where it takes over from the procedure and then it needs to ensure that it covers everything from there on about T G I , because erm , just from thinking through some of the other procedures , I mean , it does n't , T G I does n't come into the costing , or at least it 's got it 's own costings . |
| 23 | It looks something like that . |
| 24 | The only other thing we want to find out , so we know it looks something like this . |
| 25 | It 's as if he painted an outline — there 's a hollow here , and here — like a tail … and a head round there , like a kind of head , striped just here … and you 've got the blue — and — it looks something like a foot … |
| 26 | The way you 're looking at it , it looks something like erm Y equals X |
| 27 | The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen . |
| 28 | It 's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one . |
| 29 | It looks anything but . |
| 30 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |