Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How close it approaches a food item is dependent on several factors , because the bream , in common with other bottom feeding fish , has the facility of extending lips which it uses to suck and blow a food item to clean it before consuming it . |
| 2 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 3 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 4 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 5 | But it is hard to re-create the atmosphere of fanaticism and fear in which it seemed unsurprising that the gramophone records of Paul Robeson were expunged from the catalogues and the novels of Theodore Dreiser and the detective stories of Dashiell Hammett were purged from public libraries . |
| 6 | The Act provides the following defences : that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it ; that that person voluntarily accepted the risk of the damage ; and that the livestock was killed or injured on land on which it had strayed and either the dog belonged to the occupier or its presence on the land was authorised by the occupier . |
| 7 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 8 | French leadership of the European movement , which it had held since at least the early 1950s , was severely shaken and no longer undisputed , even though its influence would remain strong . |
| 9 | The ANC controls most of the homelands which it wants abolished and returned to South African rule . |
| 10 | It is difficult in one book to present an adequate account of the nervous system and to tell the reader how an animal actually carries out all the behaviour which it needs to survive and to propagate . |
| 11 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 12 | On the whole , people use language in a , in a rather sloppy form , it 's ambiguous , they , they know what they mean , other people know what they mean but they put in all sorts of inferences by the way in which it 's phrased or erm the way in which the words string together or past experience of the person . |
| 13 | Conservative back-benchers like Richard Shepherd and Jonathan Aitken have voiced their concern at many of the Government 's anti-libertarian actions ; and Enoch Powell has written of ‘ this atmosphere of near-hysteria in which , with general applause , Parliament gets to trample upon the rights and freedoms which it has nurtured and protected through its long history ’ . |
| 14 | The privatisation programme has been an enormous success in recent years and not the least part of that success has been the extent to which it has widened and deepened share ownership around the country . |
| 15 | Even as it rises , it loses the counterfeit warmth of the sun which it has appropriated and becomes glacial , all its pockmarks visible . |
| 16 | That is , it had a similar status to the Banbury lane in medieval times but it is one which it has kept and developed in response to changing circumstances , whereas the Banbury Lane has failed . |
| 17 | Despite the hype , Switchboard is very special ; not because of its size , or its range , or its particular achievements but because of the way in which it has endured and grown and responded to a perceived constituency . |
| 18 | If the Labour Party , having made its pronouncement , lapses back into the acquiescence which it has shown since the war broke out , its Memorandum may do more harm than good . ’ |
| 19 | We told him it 's elapsed because they 're not at Dagenham any more and he does n't like it . |
| 20 | So when Maezinha asks , tell her it went missing before you set out . " |
| 21 | To her it had felt as though something special was happening between them . |
| 22 | Oh yeah , what oh yes , oh without a doubt Joan , er you can do it , you could have the name and you could have who talked to them and , and then I can tell 'em that what , I 've done this you see and that 'd be the end of it it does suggest that you do n't tell them before you tell them after and then you sort of give them the opp the opportunity of me knocking , not recording it you see , wiping it off the tape , because it stunts the conversation . |
| 23 | Erm however erm it it does sound as though it 's one of these policies where as I suspected and said earlier today that it really does n't have any effect on anything and it 's probably something that could be erm crossed out and nobody would even notice it had gone . |
| 24 | and the inevitable happened it it got hit and the next time we saw it it was it was galloping across the field with it 's one of his front paws |
| 25 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 26 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 27 | And the British government in some ways is very much more effective at delivering what it decides to do than many other governments — it 's much more effective than the American government . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're continuously learning what it takes to drill and complete successful horizontal wells in the Gulf , ’ Hill says . |
| 29 | And , after two weeks that would have cracked a lesser man , Taylor proved he still has what it takes to ensure that England can qualify to be one of the outside contenders . |
| 30 | Carew stared at the view , trying to imagine what it had looked like in Richard Carew 's time . |