Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [subord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does it influence whether or not you fork out the requisite 65p , it can make or break a band . |
| 2 | He continued as if she had n't spoken , his voice dropping to a level of intimacy that suddenly made it feel as though they were alone , not being listened to by thousands of people . |
| 3 | The same as what does it matter whether or not I was a virgin when I met Gillian ? |
| 4 | But does it matter as when you think that she may not have made a will , because then everything will go to her er next of kin as one says , intestacy rules . |
| 5 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 6 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 7 | He has a bald head and a long beard , the combined effect of which is to make it appear as though his head is stuck on upside down . |
| 8 | Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group . |
| 9 | It is not a test for AIDS , nor will it show whether or when a person will become ill . |
| 10 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
| 11 | He made it sound as though the reason was obvious . |
| 12 | The only complication , from my point of view , is how on earth we refer to one another — ‘ boyfriend ’ is n't serious enough , ‘ lover ’ sounds too exclusively sexual and ‘ partner ’ , which is what I generally end up calling him , makes it sound as though we 're in business together . |
| 13 | Foucard said : ‘ You make it sound as though he is the most boring man in the world . ’ |
| 14 | She made it sound as though this were something illegal . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm making it sound as though the little hut was some sort of brothel , but it was n't like that at all . |
| 16 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 17 | You make it sound as though you cared about my welfare ! ’ |
| 18 | He made it sound as though it was the most wonderful thing in the world . |
| 19 | ‘ You make it sound as though we had a reasonable discussion , instead of which you threatened to throw me out — no matter what . |
| 20 | What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like . |
| 21 | He made it sound as though he would be doing the region a favour , not erecting a gaudy , intrusive , unaesthetic and , in her opinion , entirely superfluous tourist attraction ! |
| 22 | ‘ You make it sound as though there are juggernauts forever roaming around , ’ Ashley said tetchily . |
| 23 | ‘ You make it sound as though life is passing him by . ’ |
| 24 | in London in , in a sort of clever way that makes it sound as though there 's some terrific good reasoning for it |
| 25 | ‘ WE WANT to make it look as though it 's a wine merchant , ’ says Tim Waters in Clapham 's Wine Rack , south London , one of Thresher 's five prototype high-street wine shops . |
| 26 | At the CNPF , France 's business and industry lobby , there are complaints that the government has been fudging figures to make it look as though targets have been met . |
| 27 | But the work of Muschel and her collaborators , George Khoury , Richard Koller and Ravi Dhar at the National Cancer Institute and Paul Lebowitz at Yale , now makes it look as though the mutation may not have occurred in the tumour cells alone — instead , the mutant gene may be a rare variant that is actually inherited by some people . |
| 28 | ‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us . |
| 29 | To make it look as though the ship is lost at sea . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |