Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some of the new philosophers and freethinkers — Voltaire ( 1694–1778 ) , for example — go the whole hog and , particularly in Catholic France , where anticlericalism spurs it on , atheism takes root . |
| 2 | Enhancement can be experienced in any one or more of these areas , and where enhancement happens it needs nourishment . |
| 3 | But without variations in exchange rates or labour costs it will be impossible to sustain different levels of labour productivity in different parts of the Community . |
| 4 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 5 | If the obligor or feoffor pay a lesser sum either before the day or at another place than is limited by the condition , and the obligee or feoffee receiveth it , this is a good satisfaction . ’ |
| 6 | In extreme cases perhaps it is , but relief should not be refused unless the applicant 's conduct or motive makes it inappropriate to award the relief sought in this case : courts should not refuse relief in order to penalize an applicant for bad conduct unrelated to the relief sought . |
| 7 | Is it not possible , for example , that some theory is better , in the sense of being closer to the truth , a better problem solver , a better instrument of prediction or whatever , than a rival , even though no individual or group judges it to be so ? |
| 8 | The Created God must be such that it can be envisaged as a focal point on which thoughts can be concentrated when a problem or need requires it . |
| 9 | Often the process of enforcement or preservation makes it necessary for him to take or defend proceedings . |
| 10 | I mean , my concern here is that if you 've got a procedure that 's got nine points in it , and effectively we 're going to go through one , two , three , five of those nine points and say either this does not apply to access or access does it differently . |
| 11 | As Shaw LJ said " It is not the law that where confidentiality exists it is terminated or eroded by adventitious publicity . |
| 12 | Every time an official or workman uses it to test for gas he is putting has faith in that unpatented discovery of 1815 . |
| 13 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 14 | When a plant or animal dies it ceases to participate in carbon exchange with the biosphere and no longer takes in 14 C. If 14 C were stable , its concentration relative to 12 C would remain constant after death , but , since it is not . |
| 15 | It is only if your Mum or Dad has it , that you may possible have it when you grown up , whether you are a boy or a girl . |
| 16 | And people on radio , some of the more inarticulate , the reason they 're there is because research or folklore has it that people listen to what they 're saying . |
| 17 | erm It 's often long-range , strategic research which people are doing which erm it will contribute in ten or twenty years ' time , provided that industry picks it up appropriately . |
| 18 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 19 | It is not a socio-economic problem , although poverty exacerbates it . |
| 20 | Do n't you think that name suits it rather well ? ’ |
| 21 | At a meeting of local Serbian leaders in Orašac , in mid February , the thirty-six-year-old Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) was asked to lead the rebellion , although legend has it that he twice refused , excusing himself on the ground that his violent temper would make him an unsuitable leader . |
| 22 | Pooh only believes what Rabbit says because he believes that Rabbit believes it too . |
| 23 | To put it in the broadest possible terms , we can see that intonation makes it easier for a listener to understand what a speaker is trying to convey . |
| 24 | Engineering a time delayed ‘ lethal gene ’ into a GEM to give it a finite life — making it sensitive to low air temperatures so that frost kills it — is one way . |
| 25 | Uncle Tommy always said that there was insanity in the family , so that incident proves it , if nothing else . |
| 26 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 27 | In ‘ Woman in Art , ’ Stieglitz had written : ‘ Woman feels the world differently than man feels it … |
| 28 | It is anyone 's guess why Mr Mitterrand applauded , though he is said to get on better with Mrs T than Euro-legend has it . |
| 29 | Although history dates it to the Golden Age of Magna Graecia , some of the region 's most glorious monuments date from the time of Byzantium and Norman rule . |
| 30 | In pursuit of these rights , people will , because they have convinced themselves that justice demands it , inflict almost any harms on the rest of society and on themselves . |