Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 Most people live where they do because it contains factories , farms and offices , or perhaps transport facilities , educational institutions or research laboratories , which draw income into the area .
2 I do not believe that the current management at British Rail is capable of building the project , although I believe that it needs building .
3 Well in the sense that I suppose whether it matters whether there are six hundred and fifty one members of the house rather six hundred and forty or six hundred and fifty five , no it does n't .
4 But er I then explained to them that I realize that it does n't actually matter and it 's the quality of the image that you produce that matters and not what it 's made of or on .
5 And if you get fed up of moving text one tab stop at a time if you go alt P you then actually remove all of the paragraph formatting that you add and it takes you back to your starting position .
6 So um it 's much I suppose it makes the world a slightly safer place if you can say it was to do with something that you did because it brings the world slightly back under your control , maybe .
7 Probably the best place to start is Murlough Bay , reached by one of those narrow , winding roads that unnervingly dips out of sight so you wonder whether it continues or not .
8 although they know that it costs twice as much to try to collect it as the amount that they actually collect .
9 And we 've seen , we 've seen the commitment to Local Government , have n't we , on the planning application on the , where two local Councillors , two Labour Councillors , sitting there , listened so much to their electorate that they abstain when it comes up to the vote ?
10 This may be the extreme consequence of a health service which , although it insists that it puts patients first , often does n't do so at all .
11 is crumbly in texture and pale peach in colour when young , although it darkens as it ages .
12 Dr Mike Mosson , director personnel at the Royal Bank , says the bank has a policy of ‘ positive assistance ’ and ‘ positive encouragement ’ towards women , although he insists that it falls short of positive discrimination .
13 You know , it 's er it 's got the bad publicity that it had and it 's still got it , well I do n't think it has to be .
14 That summit will set the future course for NATO to ensure that it remains as it has been — a bedrock of stability in a still uncertain world .
15 Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant .
16 I go up to her and I go cos it makes her sick but I 'm not actually doing it I 'm just making the sound .
17 Nurse prescribing will happen , and I hope that it does so promptly .
18 And I gather that it has n't cost the department too much money .
19 I got one of them and I had and it 's got that in it .
20 But that is a highly vulnerable position for any politician to take - and I doubt if it offers the whole answer .
21 It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic .
22 I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected .
23 It is a fascinating project and I believe that it does really bring art to millions of people . ’
24 The Bill does exactly that , and I believe that it deserves the support of the House .
25 This was , as I have said , not our experience , and I believe that it rests in part on a very general tendency to undervalue the potential of well motivated students in the middle ranges of ability , in part on a rejection of the idea that the study of Language is very wide , and very various , that only some parts of that large landscape are accessible only to the most intellectually gifted .
26 And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever .
27 That was the view of the MGC in 1988 , and I understand that it remains the view of many of the directors , not because of the matter of intellectual judgment or scholarship , but because of fears that the Government will seek to put pressure on their finances .
28 Indeed , there is so much dissatisfaction with that union from within the prison service that another union , the Prison Service Union , is being set up and I understand that it has so far received 1,000 pledges from prospective members .
29 That is wholly laudable , and I suspect that it does not divide the parties .
30 Yes , and I suspect that it has been an almost unique experience in that so much of the cost has been provided by other Governments .
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