Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 2 | ‘ The whole journal appears to have been written in South Africa but he moved to Cape Province , and from later entries it seems he was in contact with Cecil Rhodes … ’ |
| 3 | Since DOL is hopefully making a comeback this evening for the reserves it leads me to this question . |
| 4 | I urge you to join the campaign , to read this leaflet and to take the opportunities it offers you to make your contribution to building a greener world for yourself and your children . |
| 5 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 6 | In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links . |
| 7 | The long button displays the underlying data form — in other words it lets you return to the form you initially filled in to create the slide . |
| 8 | It is so large and bureaucratic that like all such hierarchies it defeats itself . |
| 9 | It sets out to do one job , and , within the limitations it sets itself , it does it well . |
| 10 | In the choosing of her suitors it appears there is nothing that Portia can do , and must leave her fate in the hands of Good Fortune . |
| 11 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 12 | So in order to be true , Rabbit 's statement must be correlated with what in the circumstances it says it signifies ( namely honey ) . |
| 13 | These days it seems something more mysterious , but also somehow more real . |
| 14 | For several years it appears it remained empty , but by 1845 was back in business , with tenants John and Edward Wise producing cloth . |
| 15 | If I just read out what I was going to suggest Simon described the new system for approvals it goes something like erm , sorry it 's 9.9 , all approvals are recorded on research approval forms full stop . |
| 16 | Jennings ( 1961 ) wrote that ‘ Research has produced such a variegated list of traits presumed to describe leadership , that for all practical purposes it describes nothing . |
| 17 | This is some of the questions it asks them . |
| 18 | More is involved than bringing forward new policies and programmes : it means … improving the efficiency of the machinery intended to achieve the aims it sets itself … |
| 19 | Beca becaus needless to say Windows has not examined all the things it wants you to fix . |
| 20 | I try to lead as normal a life as possible and not think about my condition or regret the things it prevents me from doing , which are not that many . |
| 21 | It is a general feature of the education system that both through its programmed and ‘ hidden ’ curricula it plays its part in the socialisation of the individual and in social reproduction . |
| 22 | Using professional public relations agencies it buys their expertise and contacts to produce high quality slots featuring nationally famous personalities to promote the library nationally . |
| 23 | ‘ After a lifetime of keeping pigeons it makes you feel you do n't want to carry on , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel . |
| 25 | I was in apartments for 10 years , and when one has lived under those conditions it makes one contented to know we can use plenty of water . |
| 26 | Although times are tough for manufactures and dealers in the motor industry for farmers it means there are plenty of bargains about . |
| 27 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 28 | In some ways it represents its worst dehumanising features — the reduction of meaningful human action to a kind of technical fault ( based on the medical analogy ) to be cured by applied technology . |
| 29 | But positivity can be interpreted in so many ways it leaves plenty of scope for individual expression . ’ |
| 30 | And in county circles it seems they 're still as popular as ever . |