Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we are trying to make sure the money goes where it should . |
| 2 | It 's got two chances either it lives or it dies , and it started to grow like mad . |
| 3 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 4 | Tom adds that it is very important for young horses to have their teeth checked before they are bitted and broken ; racehorses usually have their first session at two years-old . |
| 5 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 6 | The company adds that it is already benefiting from increased efficiency and expects a large return on its financial investment in Weldon . |
| 7 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 8 | He adds that it is nature 's intention , for the purposes of generation , that some foetuses should turn out female . |
| 9 | Geoff Hamilton , in his Practical Gardening Course ( noted above ) , describes Latin as ‘ that old , dead , incomprehensible language ’ , although he then confusingly adds that it ‘ provides an international understanding of plants ’ . |
| 10 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 11 | ( The reviewer adds that it is ‘ high time ’ the director of the ensemble in question ‘ took some notice ’ of such criticisms a clear indication , if any were needed , of the Early music reviewers ' sense that reviews address performers directly and can even be used to call them to account . ) |
| 12 | DR Ayles adds that it is vital to keep a sense of proportion . |
| 13 | In the first debate , ‘ top-down ’ makes the international system wholly dominant and ‘ bottom-up ’ retorts that it is the sum of what nations do . |
| 14 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 15 | There must be some gain to the citizen , however minimal , in living under a constitution which regularises the way in which power is exercised ; even where government is authoritarian , it matters that it is not arbitrary . |
| 16 | For example , training emphasises that it is essential to ‘ help the clients help themselves ’ . |
| 17 | Baronworth Investment Services ( 081–518 1218 ) , which prints a weekly update of best buys , runs a special deal with accountants who can not act as direct agents for bond issuers , and splits any commission 50/50 , but emphasises that it does also recommend bonds that pay no commission . |
| 18 | The Holy Father emphasises that it is through addressing the concerns of the poor … responding at a human level to the results of poverty and questioning , at many levels , the causes of poverty … that peace , with justice , can be achieved . |
| 19 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 20 | In fact , so committed is RUC management to the principle of community policing that , in addition to specialist units , the new code of professional ethics specifies that it is the duty of all policemen and women to understand ‘ those particular community needs and problems which can cause concern and friction ’ , and be sensitive to ‘ the various public viewpoints , including historical and cultural backgrounds ’ . |
| 21 | Taken in with his bottle of National Dried Milk and vitamin drops that it was all right to kill . |
| 22 | — Dashing half the blood of sacrifice ( verse 6 ) against the altar signifies that it is by means of shed blood that the people can come into the presence of God . |
| 23 | Under these tests , a country reserves the right to refuse an operating licence to a foreign firm if it deems that it already has enough similar companies on its territory . |
| 24 | She writes that it was ‘ one of the best , but it did not suit John , as he was accustomed to follow his whims , and invent or discover for himself , and therefore did not like the regimentation of doing things at a given time . |
| 25 | Ramsey writes that it is |
| 26 | In the text James Mill writes that it is ‘ obvious , and certain , that men were led to class solely for the purpose of economizing in the use of names ’ : |
| 27 | Bede represents Oswald as bringing under his sway all the peoples of Britain , divided by language into Angles , Britons , Picts and Irish ( HE 111 , 6 ) , but elsewhere writes that it was his brother and successor Oswiu , who made tributary the Picts and the Scots who inhabited the northern parts of Britain ( HE 11 , 5 ) . |
| 28 | Husameddin , however , writes that it was in Amasya , not Aksaray , that Molla Fenari studied with Cemaleddin Aksarayi , saying that it is known from several documents that Cemaleddin Aksarayi was , between 751 and 782 [ sic ] ( 1350–1 to 1380–1 ) , muderris in Amasya and kazasker under the emir of Amasya , Hajji Shadgeldi . |
| 29 | Indeed , in an essay which may be read as a gloss on aspects of S/Z ( with which it is roughly contemporary ) , ‘ The Death of the author ’ , Barthes writes that it is the reader , and not the author , who constitutes the only focus for the multiple writings and codes of which the text is made up : ‘ The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost ’ ( 1977b : 148 ) . |
| 30 | The now defunct Battersea Power Station ran on a CHP principle which illustrates that it is feasible . |