Example sentences of "it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people tend to overuse it and/or use it for concepts too complicated for this medium i.e. where a proper report or formal memo or even a meeting would be more appropriate than an e-mail message . |
| 2 | Robson 's shown he can do it & both he and Hoddle will have ALL the players ' respect . |
| 3 | It described where the prisoners were held : ; the people of Tazmamert appear to be hardly aware of it or too frightened to talk about it . |
| 4 | You either have it or you do not — talent is certainly not something which can be taught . |
| 5 | We will see , wrote Harsnet , whether he parts with it or not , whether his greed gets the better of his sentimentality . |
| 6 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 7 | It 's either take it or leave it . ’ |
| 8 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 9 | It was starting to look as though , whether I liked it or not , I simply might not survive . |
| 10 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 11 | If there is a child at school with HIV or AIDS , perhaps born with it or caused from infected blood transfusions , your child is not at risk from everyday contact . |
| 12 | Depending on how they feel the first time , they may carry on if they enjoy it or if it seems to block out other worries and problems . |
| 13 | If you have already developed osteoporosis , they may be able to treat it or refer you to a specialist . |
| 14 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 15 | Though he is meticulous in his choice of words and turns of phrase ; his attitude , his demands , are for black and white : take it or leave it ; but at least recognise that you have been offered it . |
| 16 | First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation . |
| 17 | If you have a good facing brick , it is generally best not to paint it or seal it with any kind of coating . |
| 18 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 19 | Whether they know it or not , they are in fact endorsing Henry Newbolt against Pound ! |
| 20 | Whether the party likes it or not , its fortunes are hostage to the still youthful coalitions in Frankfurt and Berlin , and their notoriously unpredictable Green allies . |
| 21 | ‘ If it works , it will be a model for government whether the SPD likes it or not . ’ |
| 22 | Like it or not , high-tech communications have arrived in the Soviet Union , and the King Canutes of the interior ministry have become an absurdity . |
| 23 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 24 | ‘ They can take it or leave it . ’ |
| 25 | The only answer is to spread the people and the jobs thinner — so that fewer travellers , bringing their cars and their litter - journey into it or through it . |
| 26 | Love it or hate it , the South-east does contain 30 per cent of the population of the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | The GDR 's choice is between dealing with chaos quickly and overcoming it or putting it off . |
| 28 | The new rule allows them to either reduce it or to make no charge . |
| 29 | Like it or not , they have inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and it is a responsibility that they can hardly deny . ’ |
| 30 | If anything , the big Citroen 's styling leans more towards the quirky camp — there 'll be no mistaking it for anything else on the road , love it or hate it . |