Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 2 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 3 | Experiments suggest that it has a fluid consistency and that there is movement of the liquid molecules within the membrane . |
| 4 | In spite of all this secrecy , I happen to know that it takes the form of a humorous catalogue of my supposed states of mind , arranged from one to ten like the Beaufort Scale . |
| 5 | Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture . |
| 6 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |
| 7 | Most acknowledge that it has a power of its own , which powerfully affects gender relations , and needs to be understood . |
| 8 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 9 | It has been given the name " facial vision " , because blind people have reported that it feels a bit like the sense of touch , on the face . |
| 10 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 11 | On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben . |
| 12 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 13 | I started playing the bodhran this summer and I disagree that it distorts the music . |
| 14 | Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company . |
| 15 | The family must demonstrate that it has the capacity to work with its conscious or unconscious feelings of threat from blacks . |
| 16 | And then came the bier , its front draped with a shawl to indicate that it carried a woman , which perhaps accounted for the general meagreness of the proceedings . |
| 17 | when you turn your key it suddenly clicks and it clicks the thingy forward |
| 18 | Like other members of its family , the weed contains a powerful toxin , caelerphenyn , but scientists do not yet know if it poses a danger to human health . |
| 19 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 20 | Both share and asset purchases are included and it makes no difference whether the merger is agreed or hostile . |
| 21 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 22 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 23 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 24 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 25 | The creature is attracted because it has the pleasure of satisfied desire , in this case its own particular form of hunger . |
| 26 | Councillors say while it appears the situation is a fait accompli , they feel they should take every opportunity to save the home . |
| 27 | On the database side , Unify is currently waiting to see how object technology develops before it makes a move , but is already hard at work on object extensions to its tools , the first of which are expected to emerge next year . |
| 28 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 29 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 30 | Seacat Scotland 's plans were disclosed when it sent an information pack on the jobs to Barbara Fonte Garcia , of Dalbeattie , Dumfries and Galloway . |