Example sentences of "it [coord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't look to just one man to have the freedom to create because what happens if he 's not doing it or is marked out of the game ? ’ |
| 2 | Anyone who 's ever treasured their pain , tried to prolong it , toyed with exacerbating it or been driven to dwell on inside it long after recovery was an option , preferring the company of ghosts to the dreamlessness of everyday sociability — that person understands poignancy . |
| 3 | It was brushed down , it did n't look as though anyone had slept in it or was sleeping in it . |
| 4 | You are still allowed to understand it even if you can neither know it nor be justified in believing it . |
| 5 | The tests showed that if a product which should be cooked at 180°C is deep-fried at the correct temperature to seal it and is cooked as recommended , it will absorb only 6% of its weight in oil . |
| 6 | Nutrasweet markets a dairy protein-based fat substitute called Simpless , though Shaw is confident Ruby will outshine it and is installing production capacity apace . |
| 7 | His little castle is not part of a larger world , but exists in spite of it and is defined against it . |
| 8 | Therefore a form is softened by hatching , fluting or texture that wraps round it and is hardened by lines that run lengthwise . |
| 9 | The company also saw nearly a halving of complaints against it and is hoping to widen the number of people using meters . |
| 10 | He has had to go into year 5 because of the different age for secondary school here but he has coped well with it and is allowed to carry on with his own level of work . |
| 11 | In recent years it has been generally held that the backwash down the beach contributes to the breaking of the next wave , becomes involved in it and is returned with the swash , so that there is no continuous undertow transferring water out beyond the breaker zone . |
| 12 | operates as part of the law of each ratifying State , so that the courts of each such State take judicial notice of it and is established by legal argument , not by the expensive and time-consuming process of adducing expert evidence , often from a different jurisdiction ; |
| 13 | The Building Society , based in Gloucester , has set aside interest payments on the debts owed to it and is investigating the possiblity of making some compensation payments . |
| 14 | The first Power PC chip , the 601 , will become available for it and is expected next year , ahead of schedule . |
| 15 | Any manager will ( with certain limited exceptions ) have power to bind the EEIG vis-à-vis third parties , unless the related contract provides that only two or more managers may so bind it and is gazetted accordingly . |
| 16 | Cyril Reenan sold the tape to a newspaper for six thousand pounds , but he says he regrets ever recording it and is going to give the money to charity . |
| 17 | He 's been there , sacrificed for it and been changed by it . |
| 18 | ‘ But we continue to study it and are looking for the right vehicle . ’ |
| 19 | GPs have cottoned on to it and are clamouring for beds . |
| 20 | ‘ They are really looking forward to it and are determined to put Liverpool under just as much pressure as at Anfield . |
| 21 | er that would be erm structured in a way that y the people who are er training are making sure you 've got the best out of it and are making |
| 22 | People now think they can make it and are giving that little bit extra necessary … the girls as well as the boys . ’ |
| 23 | Believe me , I know — I have reason to know now , for while you were gone I 've tried it and am waiting even now for the blow to fall ! — that there is no future for me in the world I left behind so long ago . ’ |
| 24 | Johnson dwells on McQueen 's diction , complimenting him upon it and being told in return that the man had ‘ learned it by grammar ’ , and Johnson goes on to contemplate that such good English must have been acquired while such people served in the armed forces . |
| 25 | Well , I mean Brody may be able to survive by not actually only having a few months between doing it and being revived I think . |
| 26 | The house had a large garden with a small river running at the foot of it and was situated in the small quiet village of . |
| 27 | He had swum to the raft , put his head against it and was pushing it forward with heavy thrusts of his back legs . |
| 28 | Her foot , when she explored it with her fingers , had a couple of thorns stuck in it and was bleeding . |
| 29 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 30 | Anthony Quayle — on the hunt for a young lead to star in his Festival of Britain Shakespeare season — came to see it and was conquered . |