Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research proposal is designed to look at how this Inquiry fits into an evolutionary model of the development of the public inquiry as a democratic and political device for analysing information and ensuring that legal interests are safeguarded , what views the various participants have of the Inquiry before , during and after it occurs , and how the Inquiry as a process handles the arguments raised by its terms of reference , from the viewpoints of fairness , fullness , thoroughness and public legitimacy . |
| 2 | When young children have to be looked after it reduces the opportunities that parents have to take part in the social round . |
| 3 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 4 | I accept the need to counter the myth that only a biological mother can adequately care for a child , but to say that in the interests of women 's liberation we will pay anyone except the child 's mother to look after it seems to be going a little far in the opposite direction ! |
| 5 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 6 | Approached from the road below it appears as a hilltop fort enclosed by ramparts . |
| 7 | The card below it shows three ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ roses , a few alchemilla flowers and the leaves and tendrils of some old man 's beard . |
| 8 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 9 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 10 | The history of attempts to control and regulate corporate crimes does not give much cause for optimism , and indeed the idea of it reduces radicals to knowing laughter . |
| 11 | Part of it reads : ‘ Information ( about the trust ) must always be treated as strictly confidential and further , must not be divulged to any individual or organisation , including the press , without the prior written approval of the Chief Executive or his nominated deputy . ’ |
| 12 | But the real beauty of this bass is that the playing of it does not detract from this favourable first impression . |
| 13 | Yes , I know much of it does work and is done to improve whatever signal does eventually arrive at the house . |
| 14 | But to judge something relevant to the choice of a spontaneously emerging goal as end , it is enough — as we have insisted from the first — that awareness of it does in fact act causally on the spontaneous inclination . |
| 15 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 16 | This agreement is not agreement in opinion ; the concept of it does not enter into the language game ( 430 ) ; it is a prerequisite of agreement , or disagreement , in opinion . |
| 17 | FAILURE I can use the system but part of it does n't work at all |
| 18 | It adjoins Vela and Pyxis , and is always very low as seen from Britain ; part of it does not rise at all . |
| 19 | Er if , if there is a sufficient er indication in these words an indication , a pointer as I say , if there 's a transparency in these words which enables us to see through to the truth then our formulation of it does n't matter all that much . |
| 20 | The problem with sub-£10 champagne is that most of it does n't taste very good . |
| 21 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 22 | If the air is pollution-free , your consumption of it does not interfere with our consumption of it . |
| 23 | " Well , half of it does . " |
| 24 | no my Lord that 's right , but , but , that does n't mean to say that if your Lordship did n't stayed there would be any , if your Lordship did or did n't stayed or any part of it does n't compute a validity of section fourteen until one 's got a judgment saying , it 's bad for example , I mean that 's what we 're arguing about until such and the |
| 25 | sitting there doing paper work and the ki erm the kids use it as a a an office and what have you , there with their paper work , Sarah does her homework there and we have our meals in there so erm sort of it does n't really matter but er you know it saves them all coming out for a meal , and having to do it cos trouble is it 's too small to keep an eye on people to see if they want anything , everything 's alright and what have you |
| 26 | Most of it does ! |
| 27 | Oh , cracks me up , cos of it does n't |
| 28 | Sure , some of it does n't exist yet we 've got ta create this stuff , but , you know |
| 29 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 30 | The memoir tells not only of heroic chemical engineering ( some of it sounds alarmingly primitive today ) but also of bachelor life in upstate New York in the 1950s . |