Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're terrified in case you drop it , or it stops breathing , |
| 2 | As one man expressed it : ‘ When all 's said and done we have to get a product out and the management are interested in how cheap it can be done and although it means sacrificing the worker it means one has a cheap product . ’ |
| 3 | But unable to find the right person , Nikki has now decided to take the children with her , although it means uprooting them from home and friends . |
| 4 | Separate from curriculum and assessment , a third element in the 1988 Act , although it affects teaching staff only indirectly , still has the potential to affect the whole future of a school . |
| 5 | But I think it 's too bad that it keeps cropping up all the time . |
| 6 | Its meaning only becomes contained when exterior intentions are imposed — insisting that it operates according to Petrarchan or anti-Petrarchan convention , that the sonnet 's explore the relation between sexual behaviour at court and ritual descriptions of this behaviour , that the sequence is a concealed articulation of Sidney 's relation with Penelope Rich . |
| 7 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 8 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 9 | In addition to its value for historical purposes , and the fact that it involves learning through doing , the practice of oral history offers many bonuses in respect of personal and social skills ( especially the skill of learning to listen ) . |
| 10 | From the description of the requirements of the vanaprastha āśrama contained in the Laws of Manu , we see that it involves abandoning possession , a fact we noted in connection with the requirements of a satyāgrahi . |
| 11 | The second reason why playing the numbers game with female and male psychologists does not work is that it involves equating women with feminists . |
| 12 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 13 | The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I suggest that it begins working . |
| 15 | While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium . |
| 16 | It is only when the fibre-rich food leaves the stomach that it starts passing through the body at a faster pace , giving the well-documented health benefits . |
| 17 | So convinced is Saab of the value of air conditioning in our climate that it intends offering it instead of a sun-roof as a no-cost option on other models . |
| 18 | The one consolation that the adventurers have is that it stops raining , and the sun breaks through the clouds — although its light is watery and without warmth . |
| 19 | Now we see that it means planting new churches — this is an exciting project for the future . ’ |
| 20 | The main problem about drawing up a will is that it means accepting the inevitability of death . |
| 21 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 22 | Imagine , for example , that two people have an identical dream — for the sake of argument we can conjecture that it concerns standing on an ants ' nest . |
| 23 | I do not believe that the current management at British Rail is capable of building the project , although I believe that it needs building . |
| 24 | Although a mouse is not vital , I 'd suggest that it makes using FP a whole lot easier . |
| 25 | The advantage of copying the relevant information from the communication structure into a separate syntax structure is that it simplifies dealing with duplicate grammar tags in one position . |
| 26 | It also lists more detailed environmental standards that it recommends shipping companies should incorporate into their environmental plans , covering the various possible sources of pollution . |
| 27 | He does n't set the indexes properly , so it keeps jamming . ’ |
| 28 | The phrase ‘ so it needs adjusting ’ is an a posteriori justification for a failed narrative coup . |
| 29 | And it jabbers laughing pain-crying mockingly |
| 30 | The transformation of all the richness , diversity and plenitude of natural wealth into commodities is the highest purpose of the global economy ; and it requires intensifying and continuous dispossessions , in one form or another . |