Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only came out a couple of times , and I could n't get the words apart the end where it sounded something like ‘ scores off the bar , F*CK CANTONA , Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Brian Deane ’ . |
| 2 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 3 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 4 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 5 | She was very careful after that not to take him for granted , even occasionally making excuses to refuse his sporadic invitations , although it tore her to shreds not to be with him at every opportunity . |
| 6 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 7 | This keeps us in our place , although it frustrates us with a great deal of suffering . |
| 8 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 9 | Although it has none of your words on it , nor no other mark of you , I have by slow degrees and probably much self-deception turned it into a love letter from you . |
| 10 | The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good . |
| 11 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 12 | Chemistry had also had symbols , but the problem was that it had them in profusion . |
| 13 | You would never know by its handling that it had anything but a normal tail unit . |
| 14 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 15 | C's attraction is that it lends itself to structured programming more readily than assembly language programming and it is within a C language shall that the assembly language modules should be inserted . |
| 16 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |
| 17 | If in the peg and socket arrangement the true priorities were the alignment and the contact then we might redesigns the whole thing so that it looked something like the drawing shown here . |
| 18 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 19 | In view of what I am about to relate , it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely , though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time , adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting . |
| 20 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 21 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 22 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 23 | I agree with hon. Members who have said that it may prove to be a major step towards the valuable goal of greater unity in Europe , but let us face the fact that it changes nothing in today 's world . |
| 24 | He longed then , suddenly , and with a passion that had been suppressed so long that it took him by surprise , for someone to share all this with . |
| 25 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 26 | The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise . |
| 27 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 28 | The first is that it says nothing about W-cells . |
| 29 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 30 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |