Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever . |
| 2 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 3 | The trouble with the ‘ functional ’ approach , however , is that it carries with it the risk that you will omit general considerations such as overall objectives and strategy . |
| 4 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |
| 5 | The threat of liquidation by " shareholders ' is far more potent than in other forms , and it brings with it the threat that management will have no assets to manage . |
| 6 | One comes from perhaps the pharmaceutical and the medical profession side , and it seems to me the other side is really the public side . |
| 7 | And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy . |
| 8 | This is merely routine arrogance , but it obscures from them the fact that they could impress everyone a lot more if they could do a better job — and with a bit of help they could . |
| 9 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 10 | But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker . |
| 11 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 12 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 13 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 14 | That is to say , what educators are promoting primarily as ‘ a good thing anyway ’ is , on this occasion , likely to receive considerable reinforcement because it coincides with what the economic-technical revolution requires . |
| 15 | The fourth point is to check whether your choice of a particular subject calls for any prior knowledge or qualification ; or whether it carries with it the obligation to study a related subject . |
| 16 | From such a quarter this is significant testimony ( though it prompts in me the reflection that it takes one to know one ) . |
| 17 | When a mother 's face does not reflect a meaningful world of which the baby is a part — as it seems to me the face of a woman in pain can not — then what results is ‘ a threat of chaos and the baby will organise withdrawal , or will not look except to perceive as a defence . |
| 18 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |