Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thus , despite the difficulty of feeding a larger body , the survival value of size becomes greater as it gets colder . |
| 32 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 33 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 34 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 35 | It has not yet reached that target and I urge it to re-examine its spending allocations to make sure that it does . |
| 36 | Article 20 ( 4 ) ( b ) of the Vienna Convention puts the onus upon the objecting State to make explicit that it does not regard the treaty as being in force as between itself and the reserving State . |
| 37 | So how do you try a new song to make sure that it blends that it 's what you want to do that it 's different how do what where do you try if you do n't try on stage ? |
| 38 | The cloud became thicker and it began to snow . |
| 39 | As her photographs prove , the garden looks attractive and it contains most of the items a conventional garden is supposed to display . |
| 40 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 41 | ‘ The book achieves all that it claims — another first in modern language teaching . ’ |
| 42 | Section 119 provides that a company if so authorised by its articles may : ( a ) make arrangements on an issue of shares for a difference between shareholders in the amounts or times of payments of calls ; ( b ) accept the whole or part of the amount remaining unpaid although it has not been called up ; or ( c ) pay a dividend in proportion to the amount paid up on each share where a larger amount is paid up on some shares than on others . |
| 43 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 44 | As much of the oestrogen gets lost as it passes through the digestive system , quite a large dose has to be taken initially and this large dose causes most side-effects . |
| 45 | However , with social feeling about child sexuality running high as it does at present , we may be well advised to keep quiet about it in public ; while , if we ourselves feel guilt as to our own emotions in any such case , a knowledgeable and understanding senior or colleague may be able to help us — otherwise we would be well-advised to hand the case on to someone else . |
| 46 | So it seems everybody 's got their head against a brick wall at the moment because of in fact the whole world seems worse than it 's ever been . |
| 47 | Derived from the Indian reel , with extensions to allow the line to run free as it spools out with the ends spinning in the hands , the plastic reel is to be recommended . |
| 48 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 49 | Individual fibres change their thickness but not their length with moisture changes , and it is the helical geometry of ropes and textile yarns which causes rope and cloth to get shorter when it gets wet . |
| 50 | Following the Tustain decision both limbs of this test are satisfied before the institutions invest , and it is no longer necessary to show that Newco remains close after it has actually acquired the business and commenced trading . |
| 51 | The whole profession functions much as it does today , but with one crucial difference : most of what they believe is nonsense . |
| 52 | I would simply add that such analysis remains partial if it excludes , as his does by definition , paralinguistic features of communication . |
| 53 | In fact , the Report makes clear that it aims at much more . |
| 54 | ‘ Dum-dum ’ fear over shot cow TESTS are continuing on a bullet found in a cow shot dead as it grazed . |
| 55 | It is not so in the same way in which the Bill of Rights is a part of the law of the United States of America — no Act of Parliament becomes void because it transgresses the provisions of the European Convention ; no United Kingdom court will or even can issue an injunction to re ; train a government official from acting in contravention of its terms . |
| 56 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |
| 57 | Prussia became aware that it had lost parity with its allies from the Napoleonic years and determined to catch up by creating a series of technical schools — later to include Danzig 's Technical High School for boys and the famous Conradinum — and by beginning to investigate and research industrial techniques . |
| 58 | Hands up all those who 've received an indecipherable fax , where the print quality is appalling , where a staple has scratched the scanner , where the original document got stuck as it passed through the sending machine . |
| 59 | He was n't proud of the ability to go berserk because it meant loss of control . |
| 60 | The antigen can be a modified toxin called toxoid and it stimulates the body to make antitoxins . |