Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers . |
| 2 | Watch the buoy drifting westwards just north of the equator , as it approaches one of the moorings it suddenly changes direction with the current . |
| 3 | I ca n't stand to see people being cruel to animals it absolutely appals me , it does really , I feel like to take an axe to them |
| 4 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 5 | It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work . |
| 6 | Under both governances it somehow managed , in friendly or hostile fashion , to draw supplies of meat , poultry and other foodstuffs from the fertile riverside plain known as the Merse ( or Marsh ) , which with its moderate rainfall was from early times one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country . |
| 7 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers . |
| 8 | Against launderettes it also has to be said that they do not fit the media image of the perfect housewife . |
| 9 | The latter is fascinating , especially in the glimpses it occasionally gives of the general principles and priorities which informed MI5 's work , and the unease these aroused in some quarters . |
| 10 | He takes a broad view of this symphony and shapes it superbly according to his own very distinctive view of it . |
| 11 | Having seen the damage that a pack of hounds will do to domestic pets it far outweighs in my mind Chairman , any damage that a fox can do , that a fox hound can stop them doing . |
| 12 | ICL Plc almost doubled the the number of Unix servers it now offers by adding seven new models to its Sparc RISC-based DRS 6000 line yesterday . |
| 13 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 14 | Over the coming year or so X/Open will introduce a range of XPG profiles — the XPG portability guide is a subset of CAE — to cope with the volume of technology areas it now embraces ( there are 37 XPG specifications in total ) . |
| 15 | The real sticking-point was UNITA 's refusal to remove its soldiers from any of the areas it now controls . |
| 16 | This they call the " balanced slate " , and their insistent message is that whereas under our present system a vote for a party is a vote for just one candidate regardless of his precise political stance , the operation of the STV would allow a party , or rather oblige it , to put up a spread of candidates embracing and representing all the factions it supposedly includes . |
| 17 | Both of these bodies agree that reliable information must represent faithfully the effect of the transactions it either purports to represent or could reasonably be expected to represent . |
| 18 | Now the next thing erm , on the same page was , having taken away the , th th the non fee earning elements it actually pushed , and I 'm looking at your revised sheet now |
| 19 | These facts , once understood in detail , would gain for ecological engineering the support from engineers it now enjoys . |
| 20 | Indeed , and by statute , in some senses it only begins . |
| 21 | By ‘ blimpish ’ The Times presumably means that the directors it so describes show an obstinate and blinkered lack of concern for the national economic interest , and persist in pursuing what they judge to be the more immediate interests of the companies they direct . |
| 22 | The succulent liberties it never had |
| 23 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |
| 24 | Since it takes no account of possible movements between sites it probably contains some duplications . |
| 25 | Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred . |
| 26 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 27 | Or else it 's the Croup , the Colic , the Beads it just swallowed or double |
| 28 | The Conservatives won 20 ( gained 6 , lost 9 ) ; Labour won 29 ( gained 10 , lost 4 ) ; the SLD won 17 ( gained 6 , lost 5 ) ; the SDP lost both seats it previously held ; independents won 4 ( gained 3 , lost 5 ) . |
| 29 | Rather than entering into these services too late , we want to anticipate the shift and the implications it thereby brings to our business by offering services tailored to specific client needs ’ . |
| 30 | Standing lonely and remote in a geographical position roughly half way between the Orkneys and Shetland Islands people that know Fair Isle would perhaps agree that on most days it rather belies a somewhat optimistic name . |