Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people tend to overuse it and/or use it for concepts too complicated for this medium i.e. where a proper report or formal memo or even a meeting would be more appropriate than an e-mail message . |
| 2 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 3 | As for the game against Arsenal ; it 's hard to tell not having seen it or heard a radio commentary , but it looks like we 're continuing on nicely from last year : - ( |
| 4 | The knowledge that you are yourself , and the world may like it or loathe it , but here you are . |
| 5 | Love it or loathe it , there is no getting away from the fact that , all around the world , people care deeply about their football . |
| 6 | Review by Keith Thompson LIKE it or loathe it , Victorian Music Hall is at the very root of modern British mainstream comedy . |
| 7 | 5.2.2 VAT ( or any tax of a similar nature that may be substituted for it or levied in addition to it ) chargeable in respect of any payment made by the Tenant under any of the terms of or in connection with this Lease or in respect of any payment made by the Landlord where the Tenant agrees in this Lease to reimburse the Landlord for such payment The tenant should insure that there is excluded from the tenant 's liability any taxes properly payable by the landlord both in respect of rents received and the landlord 's dealings with the reversionary interest . |
| 8 | They are no longer prepared to ‘ like it or lump it ’ with publicly delivered services . |
| 9 | ‘ Like it or lump it , ’ the President said , ‘ I accept it , too . ’ |
| 10 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 11 | If they will insist on arriving unexpectedly , they 'll have to like it or lump it , wo n't they ? |
| 12 | I just said leave it or lump it ! |
| 13 | they , told them they can like it or lump it and they said the miner 's strike , but she still won the election after the miner 's strike which |
| 14 | Yet no one stops it or persuades it to change its mind . |
| 15 | As in the case of a Customer Agreement , there is an exemption dispensing with the need for a signed copy from a private customer ordinarily resident outside the UK where the firm believes on reasonable grounds that he does not wish to receive it or to consent in writing . |
| 16 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 17 | ‘ So far as I know , ’ Miss Honey went on , ‘ nobody else in the history of the world has been able to compel an object to move without touching it or blowing on it or using any outside help at all . ’ |
| 18 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 19 | As Nizan himself pointedly remarked in 1935 , " All reactionary literatures dread reality ; they either avoid it or conceal it . |
| 20 | On the other hand , he could field more men than any other lord south of the Highlands , and the Douglas power would be invaluable to the regency ; indeed lacking it or opposed by it , any other Regent would be in difficulties . |
| 21 | I 'm I 'm not entirely convinced that we have enough control over the existing county schools , never mind , never mind whether we 'd be able to retain it or increase it . |
| 22 | Do they bring the doubt out into the open to examine it or silence it and pretend it never happened ? |
| 23 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 24 | Information gathered by these excursions into adjoining phases is thus fed back into the previous process in order to reinforce the adopted approach , modify it or cause its abandonment . |
| 25 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 26 | I think I must have watched it or listened to it or something like that . |
| 27 | Once drawn , of course , the line can be modified at will by simply selecting the anchor point you wish to modify and either dragging it or adjusting the handles to alter the curvature of the lines . |
| 28 | Not necessarily no , piggyback is where you asked , you asked me several questions and su and then either added another question to it or asked a question and gave an answer and by doing that you are limiting my responses and I was n't sure which an which question I was answering . |
| 29 | There it is , God in his mercy and his love , in his graciousness he has provided a gift , a free package gift for you and for me forgiveness , salvation but there is our responsibility of receiving it or taking hold of it , of experiencing it . |
| 30 | I mean there 's carnage on these roads of ours , and people are just not doing anything about it or taking it seriously enough . |