Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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31 I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished .
32 If on the other hand fertilisation of the egg has occurred and it becomes successfully implanted in the lining of the womb , levels of Progesterone will continue to increase throughout the pregnancy .
33 In the sculpture it is difficult to determine what stage of metamorphosis this shape-changer has reached as it fits no equivalent passage in the poem .
34 It is true that headline inflation has reduced since it peaked in 1982 with the infamous ‘ gotcha ’ .
35 Like most conservatory owners , Bill has found that it enhances both his garden and his home .
36 ‘ King Henry has decreed that it stays here until she is restored to Scotland . ’
37 If the one about the little drummer boy under Richmond Castle has appeared once it has appeared 1000 times , which is 1000 times more than anybody has heard the strains of the drum from under the place .
38 Penning-Rowsell ( 1981 ) has provided an excellent review of the literature during this period , and has concluded that it saw a sustained attempt to devise techniques for the quantification of the scenic quality or value of landscapes .
39 If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’
40 Direct sampling of the dust at various landing sites has indicated that it extends downwards for at least a metre or so .
41 Article 18 states that this obligation lasts , inter alia , until the State has indicated that it does not intend to ratify the treaty .
42 However , the money market exemption does not apply to : ( 1 ) Investment management services ( whether discretionary or non-discretionary ) ; or ( 2 ) Arguably , advisory services , although the SIB has indicated that it does apply to them ; or ( 3 ) Transactions on , or expressed to be as on , an RIE .
43 Informix Software Inc has indicated that it plans to set up a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary during 1993 , according to ComputerWorld Japan .
44 In this case , Libya has indicated that it intends to prosecute .
45 By refusing a referendum on Maastricht this Government has declared that it has no respect at all for the wishes of the electorate .
46 Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years .
47 The Australian government has announced that it intends to allow logging in all of the country 's forests except those already protected as reserves or national parks .
48 Zimbabwe has announced that it intends to sell its stocks of ivory , in direct contravention of the recent CITES ruling [ see ED 56 ] .
49 Japan has announced that it intends to scale down the use of driftnets in the run-up to the UN ban which takes effect at the end of the year [ see ED 53/54 ] .
50 Cleveland County Council has announced that it intends to close Church Bank on Church Lane in Elwick , near Hartlepool , for about three weeks from March 1 for work to be carried out to prevent a verge from subsiding .
51 But Wheal Jane , Cornwall 's biggest mine , has announced that it wants to extend its workings .
52 Zon International has announced that it has taken over the UK distributorship for Solar lighting products .
53 THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry .
54 Serious chipmakers ca n't afford to be out of the market , and Hitachi Ltd has announced that it has developed a new type of AND gate for Flash memory , which achieves the world 's smallest cell surface memory of just 1.28 square microns .
55 It is also the cheapest and , because it ignores the gimmickry involved in unwanted screen displays and time-sorting for recording , the money has gone where it matters , into good quality audio .
56 A definition , along the right lines but too broad , is that an animal has signalled when it changes the behaviour of another animal .
57 It has meant that it has been ‘ abstracted from … all use and practice ’ , and has become a purely speculative matter of ‘ high flights and abstractions ’ .
58 The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past .
59 This has meant that it has become a politically sensitive issue ;
60 The Provisional IRA has admitted that it carried out this mass murder .
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