Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If your holiday plan is so tightly organised that it allows for no days off , and no travel delays , it 's time to think again .
2 Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters .
3 So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict .
4 The work of Melanie Klein is omitted because it relates to the technicalities of psychoanalytic therapy , which is not of central concern here , where it does not impinge on sociology .
5 Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority .
6 Any such claim would therefore have to be framed in terms of the interest theory ; yet , as even the advocates of such an approach admit ( Campbell , 1985 , p. 20 ) this involves open-ended and controversial issues as to which interests deserve protection , and some have argued that it leads to a disintegration of any distinctive or effective notion of a right ( Simmonds , 1985 ) .
7 It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial .
8 It can be done before it appears on the air , either in a private room or in a theatre , to a large or small audience ; it can be done after it has appeared by personal interview or ( as frequently in the USA ) by telephone .
9 Such an Order may be used where it appears to the authority to be expedient in the interests of proper planning of their area , including the interests of amenity , regard being had to the development plan and to any other material considerations .
10 The T network is actually the star network considered in the context of direct currents at the end of section 3.2 where it was shown that it transforms into an equivalent delta network .
11 ‘ Now that it has been shown that it adds to the greenhouse effect we will start a programme to further reduce the use of SF 6 and to study replacements in the foundries , said Sven Plahte of Hydro 's magnesium division .
12 But overall , the report says more information 's needed and it calls for a careful record to be kept of all future suicides and attempts .
13 In the simplest form the word will only be verified if it exists in the dictionary .
14 But an interesting analogy with the US can be drawn when it comes to the Urgent Issues Task Force .
15 But the S Q L code which is sent to it has to be interpreted when it gets to the server machine , and we all know the difference between compiled and interpreted code .
16 Similarly , light tries to travel in a straight line , but the curvature of space-time near the sun causes the light from distant stars to be bent if it passes near the sun .
17 On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all .
18 Food in a fibre-rich diet stays in the stomach longer ; and it seems probable that the food is less efficiently digested as it goes through the digestive tract .
19 Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being .
20 Prof Wilkinson points out that the international community might not decry unilateralist intervention provided that it approves of the outcome .
21 The world is a patch-work of different colours : the animal is only camouflaged if it settles in the right place .
22 Make a few test recordings before you start the session in earnest in order to get used to the set-up and to check that the wording sounds as good when spoken as it looks on the page .
23 Each of the catechists must be in touch with their own life experience , and in particular the helper catechists need to know something of the life history of their friends so that a real historical event can be shared when it comes to the time for each one to share parts of their personal story — for that is where God speaks to each one of us .
24 Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted .
25 They are not gaining financially but there is a cost involved and it falls to the NHS .
26 The situation is equally blurred when it comes to the fund managers .
27 That is all well and good , but if separate nationhood is to be recognised when it comes to banding , the wishes of the separate nations should be heeded when it comes to the taxation that they want .
28 Peripheral awareness becomes progressively blurred as it recedes from the foveal zone and adjusts to an overall equilibrium .
29 The movement is one to be welcomed if it proceeds along the right lines , the lines along which it may develop and not hamper national life .
30 This is greatest at the point where the main vein , carrying blood from the animal 's body back into its heart , is constricted as it passes through the animal 's chest .
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