Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [subord] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 2 | According to a Gwynedd County Council report the company said it is unable to tender competitively for contracts unless it has the flexibility of Sunday working . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , latex is not suitable for borders since it dries too quickly and is not durable for exposed and vulnerable areas . |
| 4 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 5 | Year round it is popular for walks as it exudes an elegant serenity inspired of the water and the graceful trees . |
| 6 | It will use it as an embedded controller in office automation products such as X-terminals after it shrinks it and optimizes its speed . |
| 7 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 8 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 9 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 10 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 11 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 12 | This too encourages the flow of savings as it gives savers the confidence that their savings will earn a good rate of interest . |
| 13 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 14 | It is included in this discussion of emotions as it represents the lowest state of emotional energy , as well as physical and mental energy . |
| 15 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 16 | The NRA displays such a terrifying range of weapons because it thinks it necessary . |
| 17 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 18 | Wordsworth produced quantities of verse in the next forty-three years : I stress the exact number of years because it amounts to over half his lifetime , and certainly to two-thirds of his poetic existence . |
| 19 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 20 | Bosses may take a good look at your hands during an interview and it 's quite common for men to put well-kept nails high on their list of priorities when it comes to women . |
| 21 | ‘ It makes me believe that the NFU leadership is unwilling to do anything to really fight for the interests of farmers if it embarrasses the Tory Government . |
| 22 | It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past . |
| 23 | Clarify can immediately lay claim to the widest breath of platforms since it runs client/server fashion on PCs , Macs and Unix workstations supporting Windows , MacOS and Motif , all in native mode , along with Sybase . |
| 24 | Cobalt is important in the jet engines of aeroplanes because it makes turbine blades resist high temperatures . |
| 25 | These problems have n't gone away , but they have been dwarfed by difficulties that stem from ‘ under-control ’ : adolescent and adult excesses due to drug and alcohol abuse ; poor self-control of anger ; a lack of scruples when it comes to a variety of antisocial actions , ranging from vandalism and violence to child neglect and child abuse . |
| 26 | Windows has a number of files where it stores information about how it has been configured . |
| 27 | But the bat surely no more 0thinks in terms of delays of echoes when it perceives an insect , than we think in terms of wavelengths when we perceive blue or red . |
| 28 | difficulty in working out whether she 's understanding what we 've said now in the way of instructions until it comes back . |
| 29 | Katib Celebi 's assertion that Abdulkerim was Mufti in Edirne , however , adds yet another unknown to an already difficult set of equations since it suggests the possibility that there may have been a separate official muftilik in Edirne ( and perhaps by extension in Bursa ) concurrently with the Muftilik of Istanbul — this would run contrary to the underlying assumption of the traditional view that the Mufti was the Mufti of the capital , successively Bursa , Edirne and Istanbul some of the holders of which may have become , with the passage of time , confused with the holders of the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 30 | She provides the material for the Board of Fellows when it meets to consider the applications for upgrading to Fellowship . |