Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes seconded then back to the chair again . |
| 2 | The co-ordinator of the scheme , Miranda McKearney , said : ‘ We have found that libraries are keen to use Well Worth Reading because it offers designed and printed promotional material conceived by fellow librarians . |
| 3 | In a properly organized political community the state exists for society and not society for the state ; yet , however socially advanced a people may be , the society which it constitutes made up of families , clubs , churches , trade unions , etc. — is not to be trusted to maintain itself without the ultimate arbitrament of force . |
| 4 | Eventually this became independent ; now it produces sought after family shows to entertain the elderly and to raise funds for charity . |
| 5 | ‘ Belinda , love , can you remember exactly how you are , and go and get your brush and brush your hair round so that it lies spread out on the chair ? ’ she said . |
| 6 | and stretch your body where it lies undone … |
| 7 | Without it doctors said she 'd only live till she was about eleven or twelve . |
| 8 | Despite onerous hours — he starts work at 4am and leaves the office about midnight having scanned the first editions of the next day 's newspapers — he has faith in his product , although he cheerfully admits that it needs tweaked into shape . |
| 9 | Yeah , but look how that 's exactly like yours except that it looks it looks lived in . |
| 10 | A stick half in water looks bent both to the man who says , ‘ It 's bent ’ and to the man who says , ‘ It looks bent ’ . |
| 11 | But the man who says , ‘ It looks bent ’ thereby exhibits his sophistication in the matter of how an object 's being half in water leads to his seeing it otherwise than as it is . |
| 12 | Someone must have brought it here for a purpose , but I must admit it looks abandoned . |
| 13 | This is the great hall which is which is although it looks finished is actually by no means finished , I was just explaining to Mike we still need a go there , we still need a table there , we need all the windows to be done and we need three thousand pounds for that window . |
| 14 | ‘ On the one hand it has dragged the name of this club through the mud and on the other , as a manager , I have got to be worried by the implications . ’ |
| 15 | But it has dragged its heels on implementing a training scheme . |
| 16 | If British tennis is to ever rise above the mediocrity that it has wallowed in for decades , then juniors have to be given greater access to courts and coaching . |
| 17 | It has secured supplies of high quality food at affordable prices . |
| 18 | It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources , while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports . |
| 19 | The satellite television company yesterday announced it has secured the exclusive rights to live coverage of England 's three Tests and six one-day internationals this winter . |
| 20 | Input/output board manufacturer , Specialix Ltd , Byfleet , Surrey , says it has secured an agreement with IBM for its Transputer-based RIO multi-port I/O controller which IBM will use in the RS/6000 . |
| 21 | It has secured and increased the supply of water . |
| 22 | It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign . |
| 23 | But the company has an opportunity to make other gains through a 50 per cent stake it has secured with BP in five surrounding blocks where an intensive exploration programme will begin later this year in an attempt to discover other ‘ elephant ’ fields . |
| 24 | Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd is more than £1.7 million in debt and has fallen behind with major orders it has secured . |
| 25 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |
| 26 | None the less , it has concluded that if the backlog is to be eliminated there will need to be a similar increase in the recurrent baseline , which represents a substantial commitment of university funding . |
| 27 | It has absorbed the Eastern Red Pied of eastern Liège , which was in effect the MRY in Eupen and Malmédy . |
| 28 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 29 | As your playing standard improves and you develop the feeling of the rally , the rally should cease when the ball is out of play ( ie , when it has bounced twice , or outside the lines ) . |
| 30 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |