Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |
| 2 | For example , the first vowel in the following English words is of a different quality when it is stressed than when it is unstressed : convert , progress , transfer . |
| 3 | Thus in ( 140 ) below the lighting of a fire is presented as a condition which would have permitted Pops to be found sooner , but the fire could not be conceived as acting on Pops directly itself and " making him be found " : ( 140 ) A fire would n't have mattered except that it would cause Pops to be found sooner . |
| 4 | Jack is not bothered what the tree looks like because it is not good enough to eat . |
| 5 | This is what the window looked like before it was restored . |
| 6 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 7 | At , at the back of the Three Crowns where that is now , I do n't know whether if it was a bomb meant for the airport , I ca n't think that it was though it was a bit far away for that . |
| 8 | The 286 family can access more memory , and the 386/486 family can act as though it was a number of 8086 based computers all at once — but there you see the glue coming back — the magic 8086 crops up yet again . |
| 9 | The adjustment system is not particularly good , something of a nut-and-bolt operation , and looks as though it could well be vulnerable to failure as the bolt wears through the covering fabric . |
| 10 | That hair looks as though it 'll take a lot of coping with . ’ |
| 11 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 12 | Hence the burgeoning popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party : a fringe party of Hindu extremists only a few years ago , it looks as though it could be part of a government after the election . |
| 13 | Now party influence looks as though it is again on the wane . |
| 14 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 15 | While the uppers often irritatingly remain almost as new as they day they came out of the box , the outsole looks as though it 's been left behind on the concrete , which of course it has . |
| 16 | Nothing looks worse , and does a poorer job , than a worm which has been stuck on the hook several times and looks as though it has been tied in a knot . |
| 17 | Only fifty yards further upstream I find a smooth glide along my own bank that looks as though it should hold a few chub . |
| 18 | The Egyptian connection undoubtedly occurred , but it looks as though it was quite a late development . |
| 19 | Sending a typed letter , or at least one that looks as though it is typed , so it looks personalised . |
| 20 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 21 | It looks as though it 's going too fast even when it 's standing still ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It looks as though it 's on the ground to me ! ’ |
| 23 | If you have sets of cables together , as in the sample of centre front cables and then cross the cables in opposing directions , you will be creating a completely different style of cable which looks as though it was designed as a whole rather than two separate pairs of cables . |
| 24 | When at rest during the daytime , the animal looks as though it is wrapped in a camouflaged fur blanket that matches the bark of the branch to which it clings , head uppermost . |
| 25 | It would appear that Child Poverty Action Group director Fran Bennett 's fear that ‘ it looks as though it 's a two-pronged attack . |
| 26 | India looks as though it can be self-sufficient in energy within the next few years . |
| 27 | The whole creature , as a result , looks as though it is divided into segments , but in fact these separate living packets of eggs are quite different from the permanent internal compartments of a truly segmented creature like an earthworm . |
| 28 | That one , that 's the big toe , is where the foot actually is twisted outwards this one is where the foot is curved under , and that I 've put in red because it 's the most common sort , very common , that is where the foot is forced up and that one is where it looks as though it 's standing on its toes . |
| 29 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |
| 30 | It looks as though it stopped work a decade ago . |