Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The central character , Fonda 's part , is a writer of television commercials who can not stand the pressure of the effect it is having on his wife Sally ( played by Susan Strasberg ) and their marriage .
2 Charles worried about the effect it was having on her ; and grew angry and frustrated on his own behalf , that no one seemed interested in the ills of the world .
3 Here , in the gymnasia and exercise studios , they are now worrying not so much about the effects of heavy-duty exercise on their bodily contours , but with the havoc it is wreaking on their faces .
4 Otherwise this is an excellent warm jacket , it 's just a pity it 's limited by its design .
5 But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat .
6 Living at home it was arranged for her .
7 I ca n't remember which teacher it was referred to anything Orcadian we used as Orkneyisms .
8 her questions had been more curious than tender and even when she had touched his cheek it was to prove for herself that no bruising remained .
9 This is the person with the suit — the one you will see most of and who will be present at nearly every meeting you have with the agency , the one whose job it is to look after your interests within the agency , and to look after the agency 's interests in dealing with you .
10 All the pain and anguish it 's done to my family .
11 What period it is depends on its ‘ accounting reference period ’ as determined in accordance with section 223 , which in turn depends on its ‘ accounting reference date ’ as determined in accordance with sections 224 and 225 .
12 This requires that when a record is added to the file it is stored in its home bucket if any record that is a synonym is at present in the home bucket , and that if space becomes available in a bucket , any synonym that randomizes to the bucket in which space is now available is moved into the home bucket .
13 This however is not oak it 's sit on it somebody .
14 Even as this problem forms itself in my head it is superseded by its very simple and obvious solution .
15 Now when there is excess flood water it is held between them and let out slowly later .
16 The LDP group was dissatisfied with the service and quality it was receiving from its Warwick factory .
17 I thought , if he had any passion it was directed to her , not I do n't think he had it and Jane .
18 To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary .
19 But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent .
20 But even Fujitsu is said to be more interested in Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and the new Unix axis it is forging with its affiliates — see opposite .
21 In part that reflects the promotion it 's received from its UK distributor .
22 Like the donkey it is despised by its enemies and mistreated by its friends , but only because it is bound to be treated unfairly when it is seen unrealistically .
23 ‘ I see now what a mistake it was to listen to her , but she planted the seed quite naturally , in her own devious little way , and I thought about it , torturing myself with the knowledge that it was a possibility .
24 Mr Carter , who is business development manager at ICI Billingham , says he knew the instant it was described to him over the phone that the property was just what they were looking for .
25 He 's … he 's so possessive of her , always has been , but it 's got worse of late , and … and of course it 's getting on her nerves . ’
26 She could not understand why Alain had insisted that she be here , unless of course it was to instil in her this very attitude that she was not in any way entitled to a share of their past .
27 The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods .
28 ‘ Just a few weeks after I left the ship it was sunk by our own Typhoon fighters with the loss of 56 lives , ’ said Mr Connor , whose son , Paul , saw front-line action as a medic in the Gulf War .
29 It is future planning it is growth it is commended to you all .
30 In support of the proprietary argument the plaintiffs resorted to an analogy with the position of a trustee in bankruptcy , whose right and duty it was to get in everything which had been owned by the bankrupt , including his business documents .
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