Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM is expected to make its long anticipated move into massively parallel computing this Tuesday when it launches parallel processing machines running from eight up to 64 PowerParallel RISC/6000 processors . |
| 2 | When the box falls from the tree and hits the ground , it splits open scattering the nuts . |
| 3 | From here it turns right to follow the shore until it reaches the mouth of the River Avich . |
| 4 | I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with . |
| 5 | It involves simply flushing with water , poured from any container . |
| 6 | It involves sharply cut three-piece suits , or carefully pressed Italian pastel casuals for the male , and a whole range of feminine clobber in similar icecream pastels for women , including the down-market fashion accent of summer 1984 : totally impractical white fabric ankle boots . |
| 7 | It involves sharply pulling the sail towards you which , for an instant , creates more wind and hence more power . |
| 8 | It is called ‘ safer ’ rather than ‘ safe ’ as it involves greatly reducing risk , rather than completely eliminating it . |
| 9 | It sits there going . |
| 10 | Unquestionably the degree of proportionality it produces overall contrasts strikingly with the disproportionality of British general election results . |
| 11 | It lies happily stranded across arable fields , beside deep woods on the edge of Badminton Park . |
| 12 | As I have argued in previous chapters , reconsidering that history helps us to reconsider psychoanalysis , especially the way it incorporates yet obscures the perverse dynamic . |
| 13 | But it needs also to engage with those theories which deconstruct the distinction between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ , which recognise the power of desire and fantasy and the problems of supposing any ‘ original ’ unity in the self , while at the same time preserving its concern with lived experience and the practical and material struggles of women to achieve more autonomy and control over their lives . |
| 14 | The Authority missed the opportunity to use PNP resources to bring about change here : it needs now to explore other avenues . |
| 15 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
| 16 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 17 | It looks best worn casual and scruffy , but everyone seems intent on continually dressing it up . |
| 18 | If it looks scruffy , then it implies that you are scruffy , if it looks badly thought out , unclear , then it implies that you are badly thought out and unclear . |
| 19 | With its pretty round neck , softly padded shoulders and front-pocket detail , it looks great worn with a skirt or trousers . |
| 20 | Made in machine-washable 50% cotton , 50% polyester mix , it looks good worn with jeans or as a beach cover-up . |
| 21 | I think it looks just looks just just a mess now . |
| 22 | But it looks well designed , and this combo is obviously very portable . |
| 23 | As the name implies , this operation involves emphasizing the boundary or edge features on the image so that it looks less blurred . |
| 24 | Now if I could just remind you of what 's happened at the Lyndford Haven er er , Synod , last March erm , the Financial Committee have suggested that we should go for a target of five hundred and ten thousand but er , this is we are not gon na be able to even start looking at the eleven and a half thousand if if er all the provinces do it for months and more and we , I think very bravely or foolishly whatever way you li , look at it , proposed that we should got to five hundred and forty thousand and it looks as thought we 're gon na end up certainly nearer to five ten than five forty . |
| 25 | Looking at the film now , it looks terribly dated . |
| 26 | It looks so do n't it ? |
| 27 | It would have even more credibility if the Labour party would claim and set out the funding that it would provide for the national health service , which it has expressly failed to do . |
| 28 | It is obvious that the government does n't know how to respond to the messes it has partly created and partly suffers from . |
| 29 | The relation between contemporary modes of communication and the contemporary novel may not always be obvious or straightforward , but it has profoundly changed the ways in which people think about fiction and the value they attach to reading . |
| 30 | The fund , raised in 1944 in the Midlands , was invested by officials of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and , apart from the stock market crash of two years ago , it has steadily increased . |