Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also agreed to declassify information on pesticides approved for use before 1986 . |
| 2 | And not only have I found whisky successful as an alternative to cognac and armagnac in many fish and poultry dishes , but it has frequently had to do duty instead of Calvados in Norman dishes of veal , pork , pheasant and apples . |
| 3 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 4 | She told an audience at the Royal Society , ‘ Let me confirm unequivocally … the United Kingdom will meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted to reduce acid emissions . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed especially designed to give weight to his ineptitudes , lending a ridiculous dignity in space to what he had screwed up , like making a free-hanging sculpture of a broken egg-whisk . |
| 6 | While the government later indicated that it had merely given drafting assistance , it is abundantly clear that its influence on the Bill was much more than one would normally associate with drafting assistance . |
| 7 | The ministry said it had only begun to take meat samples . |