Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Senate may vote this week on a bill to give the proposed department that authority , but the issue is expected to remain controversial when it moves to the House of Representatives . |
| 2 | Like the unit in Pembrokeshire , it has done that because it believes that it can satisfy the Secretary of State on four points : first , that such a move would show benefits for patients ; secondly , that it would improve management capability ; thirdly , that clinicians would be involved in management ; and , fourthly , that the trust has a future of financial soundness . |
| 3 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 4 | The Royal Horticultural Society ( RHS ) has made clear that it has yet to develop a conservation policy and will continue to give awards for plants collected in the wild . |
| 5 | ‘ Knock-for-knock ’ , where an insurer pays for damage to the car covered under its policy — regardless of blame , has become unpopular as it passes on the costs of settling claims to comprehensive policy holders . |
| 6 | New Barnes School is the subject of a separate investigation by the police and social services into child abuse and has remained closed since it shut down early for the Summer break . |
| 7 | The time had come to end this before it went any further . |
| 8 | Jezrael thrashed to get free but it did n't work . |
| 9 | THERE are some Conservative voters who , believe it or not , are hoping for a Labour victory , on the simple logic that ‘ it has to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 10 | On the other hand , this degradation of the bench must be a slow process , so that the rate of cutting of a marine bench may be expected to become slower as it becomes wider . |
| 11 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 12 | We seem to resent this when it happens in English — when we leave the ‘ t ’ off the end of ‘ hot ’ , for example , and replace it with a ‘ glottal stop ’ ( try saying ‘ hot milk ’ three times quickly ) . |
| 13 | So he had to wear his and he do n't like doing that because it gets stuck in the locker . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's going to get worse before it gets better . |
| 15 | Hyperactive children may ‘ grow out of it ’ in time , but this takes a long time and their behaviour tends to get worse before it gets better . |
| 16 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 17 | I mean , it 's bound to get easier when it 's all been fully computerised . |
| 18 | If the buyer subsequently retains the goods without objection , it may be taken to have accepted the offer ; however , if within a reasonable time the buyer responds making clear that it does not accept the seller 's terms , it will make a counter offer and will not be bound by the seller 's terms . |
| 19 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 20 | ‘ And it would n't have done that if it had been driven down to Streatley and back ? ’ |
| 21 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 22 | He would have felt nervous if it had n't been raining . |
| 23 | The commission of array authorizing Rivers to raise men in the marches , for instance , would have become valueless once it became known that he was out of favour . |
| 24 | The commission of array authorizing Rivers to raise men in the marches , for instance , would have become valueless once it became known that he was out of favour . |
| 25 | The 72 might have seemed boring but it put him in charge . |
| 26 | This was set to speed 1 and it had no problem delivering the water to the filter . |
| 27 | The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 28 | Thus Forrestal reflected in July 1946 that the United States might have to tolerate much that it did not like about British conduct and influence in the Far East . |
| 29 | The man lashed out with a rusted chain but Whitlock managed to roll clear before it struck the ground where he had been lying . |
| 30 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |