Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years .
2 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 .
3 It is covered with gold leaf into which is etched a pattern of oak and bay leaves — and a medieval North Italian inscription , the surviving words of which suggest that it said : ‘ In this little goblet one often acquires happiness ’ .
4 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 .
5 We suggest that it enables the parents to pay a compliment to close friends by inviting them to be godparents .
6 Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government .
7 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 .
8 The climactic series of explosions of 27 August added volumes of fresh material to the already huge eruption column above the volcano , and some estimates suggest that it rose as much as eighty kilometres into the air .
9 Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Experiments suggest that it has a fluid consistency and that there is movement of the liquid molecules within the membrane .
14 It needed a substantial amount of advertising , and the figures suggest that it did n't get it .
15 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 ) .
16 ‘ Then I suggest that it begins working .
17 Popular understandings of subjectivity , psychology 's object , suggest that it escapes rationality .
18 Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply .
19 For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings .
20 The definition of " business " under the SGA 1979 ( s61(1) ) and the SGSA 1982 ( s18 ) provide that it includes " a profession and the activities of any government department … or local or public authority " .
21 I recollect that it had happened before to the team 's predecessors , practically on the same spot .
22 Such headlines both raise the issue of order in school and at the ground , and explicitly propose that it does not exist .
23 UTOPIA : We propose that it begins , as you say , with the most advanced technologies we know , but with a new factor that changes the picture completely : negative growth , or rather planned economic decline .
24 Emphasize that it does not matter how badly one reads the paragraph as long as the situation is not avoided .
25 Hence , the quotation marks around the word ‘ doing ’ emphasize that it has a technical meaning in sociology , for lying behind the process is a body of common-sense and official police knowledge which informs the methods and practices according to which activities are done .
26 In Molly 's own words : ‘ Thinking back to these early classes , I realise that it has always been the enthusiastic response of the class members that has made it seem supremely worth while to go on …
27 The law requires , permits and claims what the organs of government , acting lawfully , and in particular the courts , say that it does .
28 They say that it does not deal with the problem of people who persistently reoffend while on bail .
29 The second point I would make on the criticism that Selby make of the need erm assessment is they say that it does n't erm take adequate cognizance of manufacturing and service employment .
30 When its output is 1 , we say that it fires .
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