Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conoco also disclosed it has started a review of offshore maintenance operations could lead to a jobs rundown . |
| 2 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 3 | If the CEMREL Research Project ( 1972 ) is any indication of what is expected it seems American teachers are looking for a child 's skill at ‘ showing ’ , and , in particular , ‘ showing ’ emotion . |
| 4 | Once the assumptions of the perfect market model are dropped it becomes clear that they have the capacity to safeguard these interests , manifested in a sluggishness of response , if not outright resistance , to changes in what consumers actually want , or might want if they were aware of the full range of possible alternatives . |
| 5 | Excluding its OEM partners , which include Fujitsu Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Fuji Xerox Co , Nippon Steel Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other powerful players , Sun had an 11.4% share of the market last fiscal , putting it in fourth place , but if the OEM sales are included it shoots to the top with a 22.7% share . |
| 6 | Arrested larvae accumulate during the spring and where Type II disease has been reported it has occurred in late summer or early autumn . |
| 7 | With 15 to 20 per cent of tin or more , the alloy becomes brittle and almost unworkable , although it can still be cast to shape , and as more tin is added it becomes whiter in colour . |
| 8 | There seems , anyway , to be a metaphorical confusion in this idea : if the inner life is in need of air , how come it takes place in the least accessible parts of our being ? |
| 9 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 10 | And when it 's come it 's usually been a case of you can smell something horrible like erm you know when they 're emptying the slurries out in the pig farms . |
| 11 | because I was n't I said how come it ends up being that and they said you just carry . |
| 12 | Which I have enjoyed it 's been er a bit of a challenge coming here because in the city centre , business-wise , you 're surrounded by the professions such as estate agents and solicitors . |
| 13 | The problem with dinghy sailing is that once the sailing bug is caught it grabs hold . |
| 14 | D' ya know I 'd forgotten it 's got dirty beads on . |
| 15 | However , on the basis of the limited data available , and in the areas that have been considered it seems probable that substantial and largely unrecognised costs have been incurred . |
| 16 | In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics . |
| 17 | NetWare SunLink puts Sun on a path already trodden it seems by almost everyone else in the industry . |
| 18 | Served chilled it awakens the palate . |
| 19 | Once a surface is disinfected it tends to remain so until used . |
| 20 | The argument as I have presented it seems to require the first reading of this crucial sentence ; on the second reading we get , not a regress of justification , but a demonstration of justification which is only successful in certain conditions . |
| 21 | Where the relationship between theory and practice is more dialectical than applied it allows a fruitful interaction between the two , although this does not always happen . |
| 22 | If the light is absorbed it reads ‘ 0 ’ ( see diagram above ) . |
| 23 | However , if the original social and education objectives of the course have not been met it has nevertheless succeeded in tapping the hidden intellectual and educational potential of many working-class men and women . |
| 24 | If you do n't and slalom continues to be so poorly attended it risks becoming a has-been sport . |
| 25 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 26 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't need that kind of restriction on my playing , and I 've done it loads of times in the past when recording , always having to think , ‘ Well , I ca n't play the F£ there ; I 'll have to go down and play it there . ’ |
| 28 | Where this is done it matters not that the pedestrians have n't put a foot on the crossing or that they have actually crossed and the offence can still be committed ( Gullen v Ford [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 24 and Connor v Paterson ( 1977 ) 121 Sol Jo 392 ) . |
| 29 | He said that he did not favour an increase in taxation but ‘ when it has to be done it has to be done ’ . |
| 30 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |