Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 2 | Why do they have to go where it says : Danger ? ’ |
| 3 | I 've used a balloon in Africa but you tend to go where it wants ! |
| 4 | It 's got two chances either it lives or it dies , and it started to grow like mad . |
| 5 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 6 | Whatever criticisms may be made of the STV there is no denying that it has proved viable in its own fashion in twenty-two general elections in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 7 | Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years . |
| 8 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 9 | What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels . |
| 10 | We suggest that it enables the parents to pay a compliment to close friends by inviting them to be godparents . |
| 11 | The examples listed earlier suggest that it covers a vast variety of relations ; for example the relation between capitalists and workers is said to be one of oppression , while that between factions of the ruling class might be competition . |
| 12 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 13 | Now , sources close to the receivers of the H-M Agency of Los Angeles suggest that it has been conclusively proved that she was involved in the massacre at Dead Rat , Arizona , last year , during which a peaceful force of process-servers were murdered by members of the Maniax gangcult , who then razed the community to the ground . |
| 14 | It is famous for its tremendous resources and ability to get the job done , but other firms suggest that it has a less than enviable success rate . |
| 15 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
| 16 | Experiments suggest that it has a fluid consistency and that there is movement of the liquid molecules within the membrane . |
| 17 | There are , for instance , several conflicting claims concerning the function of the Japanese suffix -wa : some suggest that it is an obligatory marker of topic ( this claim is implicit in Li , 1976 : 465 ) ; others suggest that it marks given information ( see 5.1.2. below for an explanation of given vs new information ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Then I suggest that it begins working . |
| 19 | Popular understandings of subjectivity , psychology 's object , suggest that it escapes rationality . |
| 20 | But technology and global competition will eventually put more people to work than it makes redundant |
| 21 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 22 | It is natural to walk or run them and anyone who has done this will know that it becomes more of a rhythmic dance when perfectly attuned . |
| 23 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 24 | This insurance arrangement is very rarely used by practitioners , but readers should know that it does exist , and might provide some help to a buyer who is basically raising 100% of the price from the mortgage company . |
| 25 | One essay may have both first-class and abysmal features and yet be graded neither A nor F ; instead it may get a C which fails altogether in letting us know that it differs from another essay graded C which is consistently of that quality in all its parts . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman must also know that it depends how one selects one 's facts and which surveys one looks at . |
| 27 | Some of us though , working at the ground , grass roots ma may not know that it goes on , and er , I would just like to take this opportunity of stressing how important it is to , that we communicate within the United Kingdom , and er , support Nigel 's er , suggestion that it would be useful to have a base down here . |
| 28 | However , I do know that it features a new , wider stance and a longer body than the present model along with wider wheel-arches and new wheels and grille . |
| 29 | It will soon give a ‘ bleep ’ to let you know that it has added another con to your growing pile , another contribution to that bulging pocket that will soon hold your double helping of pocketmoney … |
| 30 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman must have studied what has happened in the company referred to , so he will know that it has used the assets to buy new buses . |