Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bib had been tied around Bissell 's neck to collect the raw , liquid plaster which oozed from his mouth where it congealed and hardened . |
| 2 | The ant repays the tree by sweeping it leaves free of fungi , by assaulting any leaf-eating animals that it encounters and by attacking any competing plant that dares come within chewing distance . |
| 3 | The Government will cause that because it has no mandate so it follows that if the Government has no mandate you must resist its attempts to exercise one . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 5 | This is a typical result and it seems that , like the tendons , the early development of the muscles is quite autonomous . |
| 6 | Within days I had changed my mind and it seemed that the only sensible form of transport would be a Sherman tank . |
| 7 | We wake in the night with a churning mind and it seems that nothing will settle the anxiety . |
| 8 | It uses some printer Escape sequences which are discussed in the " Printer Escape Sequences " sub-section and it assumes that the Printer Editor has been used to set " Off at CR " to " No " for bold and underline . |
| 9 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 10 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 11 | It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock . |
| 12 | However , Executive Agencies are in some cases becoming trading funds and it appears that many more will become so in the future ) . |
| 13 | You look at a mail box in the United States and it looks like it 's been abandoned , just barely bolted to the ground any more . |
| 14 | They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack . |
| 15 | Thirdly , a court might decline to allow judicial review if it thought that the alternative dispute-settling body possessed relevant expertise which the court lacked ; or , fourthly , if the case raised issues which could be considered by the alternative body but not by the court on judicial review ; or , fifthly , if the alternative body 's procedure was better suited to resolving the case than judicial review procedure . |
| 16 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 17 | The following dietary guideline can be woven into therapy if it appears that the client has an unhealthy diet . |
| 18 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 19 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 20 | They have no power to take any action and it appears that their potential to increase the level of accountability and to develop policing by consent is minimal . |
| 21 | This was essentially a gentle action and it ensured that as little corn as possible would be shed and lost on the ground . |
| 22 | He still looked a bit dubious and David said , ‘ One thing you can tell Len , something I forgot , was that I made enquiries today about his parrot and it appears that if he does go to Conway House he 'll be able to take the parrot with him . |
| 23 | In Oe. radiatum infections in cattle , the pathogenic effect is also attributed to the nodules ( up to 5.0 mm in diameter ) in the intestine and it appears that as few as 500 larvae are sufficient to produce clinical signs . |
| 24 | A walking , talking compendium of that great paradox of apartheid which has at its heart the maxim that crime is n't a crime if it supports and strengthens the system . |
| 25 | Moderate drinkers do not benefit from warning labels and it appears that alcohol abusers pay no attention to them . |
| 26 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 27 | Maybe erm maybe our culture has particular metaphors , particular ways of understanding ways of human distress and it seems that very often when people have a rather non-specific distress these days , I mean it 's very common to find that erm counsellors , professionals , will be looking in into people 's backgrounds , looking into people 's backgrounds for evidence of child sex abuse . |
| 28 | Shaw said : ‘ It 's difficult to work out his programme but it seems that he analysed his subjects and classified their attributes , their doings , and the major events in their lives by coded numbers . |
| 29 | The EC gets irritated at the mention of fraud because it fears that it weakens the Commission 's hand in GATT talks . |
| 30 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |