Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 2 | I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer . |
| 3 | The velar nasal , described in Chapter 7 , also raises a lot of analysis problems ; some writers have suggested that the correct analysis is one in which there is no phoneme , and this sound is treated as an allophone of the phoneme that occurs when it precedes the phoneme . |
| 4 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 5 | Then , since it is whether or not a cell actually responds that determines whether it undergoes the slow modification process , the slow process would make cortical neurons become permanently tuned to this uncorrelated set of features . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I see something deeper , more infinite , more eternal than the ocean in the expression in the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning , and coos and laughs because it sees the sun shining in its cradle . ’ |
| 7 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 11 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 12 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 13 | The kite just kept snapping and flapping and flapping and snapping and it hauled the girl off the earth and into the air , winch and all . |
| 14 | The endorsee-buyer 's message was also tested and accepted if it contained the portion of the original seller 's test key . |
| 15 | Make a cast of this with a suitable filler , remove it from the mould when set , and clean it with a file and glasspaper until it matches the original moulding . |
| 16 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 17 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 18 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 19 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 20 | It was travelling fast and wobbled as it hit the bumpy piece of road under the railway bridge . |
| 21 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 22 | Richard Montague-Smith , who was 15 , took his brother 's Escort car without consent and died when it left the road at more than 70 miles an hour on the Birdlip bypass near Gloucester earlier this year . |
| 23 | It grew with the power it was picking up , grew and grew until it filled the cave . |
| 24 | Deputies from Estonia 's Russian minority boycotted the vote on the new law , describing it as discriminatory and claiming that it violated the constitution of Soviet Estonia , although Estonian nationalist deputies countered that that document had ceased to be valid since the March 30 declaration of a transition to independence [ see pp. 37322 ; 37461-62 ] . |
| 25 | For Cuba , Malmierca characterized the resolution as setting a date for war and said that it violated the UN Charter . |
| 26 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 27 | And to ask whether it affects the landlord qua landlord or the tenant qua tenant is an exercise which begs the question … |
| 28 | The Interministerial Council was an indispensable tool for keeping track of his own government and ensuring that it followed the line that he delivered from above . |
| 29 | Buy the thickest jacket you can find — ideally 80 or 100mm thick — and check that it bears the British Standard Kite mark , indicating that it is made to BS5615:1985 . |
| 30 | He could not see its full extent from where he stood , but knew that it filled the Ch'ang Chiang basin , eight hundred li south to the mountains , a thousand li east to west . |