Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 . ’
3 This is a typical result and it seems that , like the tendons , the early development of the muscles is quite autonomous .
4 We wake in the night with a churning mind and it seems that nothing will settle the anxiety .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 However , Executive Agencies are in some cases becoming trading funds and it appears that many more will become so in the future ) .
8 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 .
9 The following dietary guideline can be woven into therapy if it appears that the client has an unhealthy diet .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Moderate drinkers do not benefit from warning labels and it appears that alcohol abusers pay no attention to them .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The EC gets irritated at the mention of fraud because it fears that it weakens the Commission 's hand in GATT talks .
18 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 .
19 The Educational Institute of Scotland has organised industrial action because it argues that the new school is still basically Bellarmine in a different building .
20 The Government is promoting Compacts because it recognises that there will be a shortfall in supply of responsible and qualified young people over the next few years .
21 The application of dynamic input is more restricted than static recognition since it demands that the user have available a suitable input device at the time of writing and is obviously only applicable to handwritten text .
22 Do this for three days in succession and you will be able to make up your own mind whether it works or not .
23 I should do really got a clot in one of his legs as it means and went down the other one and got ta take it out , through smoking
24 Share research as it starts and whenever there is something to say by contacting SCRE Information Services .
25 ‘ You may stay and catch the ferry at first light when it crosses but that is your decision . ’
26 And I 'm scared of the light when it comes because I see things that are , like my face getting old .
27 Erm , I think probably I would support the recommendation as it stands because I do think that we need to have a trial to see if the end performance , and I very very much support the idea of the end performance , er in district .
28 That 's right , the , the , the id rewards the ego as it were with a feeling of pleasure when it 's when it 's met its demand .
29 Bloomfield states that librarians have so constructed tests on library skills that it appears that ‘ we librarians have a poor understanding of the value of the library for our students ’ .
30 Lardie was the last fluent speaker of the Kalkadoon language , a language of such versatility and ingenuity that it stands as a monument to human intellectual development .
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