Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The registration is checked to see if it has been correctly completed . |
| 2 | But he did n't want to go if it meant leaving Kate behind . |
| 3 | Those who argue about this ( about how much should be spent on Arts faculties in universities , for example ) tend to debate whether it does or does not help the economy , help people to do various jobs , and so forth . |
| 4 | I 've used a balloon in Africa but you tend to go where it wants ! |
| 5 | Michael , 45 , who quit boozing because it threatened to wreck his life , has given up another ‘ vice ’ — being too generous . |
| 6 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 7 | Luckily , the picture has altered as it has become clear that in agriculturally wealthy areas , where farmers were often owner-occupiers , they lavished great attention on their houses . |
| 8 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 9 | The announcement a week ago that the company was seeking new equity financing made it pretty clear that the end was nigh for Littleton , Massachusetts-based massively parallel systems builder Alliant Computer Systems Corp , and the company announced last week that the boom has fallen when it fired all but 50 of its 225 employees and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . |
| 10 | It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West . |
| 11 | This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united . |
| 12 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 13 | As I write , I make assumptions about what my reader already knows about language and language learning , about the common ground of knowledge , and what he or she can not be expected to know since it concerns the idiosyncrasies of my own view of these matters . |
| 14 | At that price bidders will need to know whether it 's still got all its the original characteristics . |
| 15 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 16 | This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land . |
| 17 | Interest in the code has grown as it has become clear how swiftly the end of the cold war has begun to undermine NATO 's defence base . |
| 18 | It is to a degree , on the application form that each charity receives , it has to state whether it collects for people in the Oxford area , but not as a percentage . |
| 19 | That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative . |
| 20 | However , while the fact that it does lead to the possibility of new tests makes an hypothesis worthy of investigation , it will not rank as an improvement on the problematic theory it is designed to replace until it has survived at least some of those tests . |
| 21 | In this context , we shall assess how the Act has added to police power and what effect it has had when it has been used in tandem with the pre-existing law . |
| 22 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |
| 23 | Does as it wants to do when it goes outside rather than inside . |
| 24 | I have never found anything yet that will stop a squirrel doing precisely what it wants to do when it wants to do it , whatever that is what it wants to do . |
| 25 | In the sculpture it is difficult to determine what stage of metamorphosis this shape-changer has reached as it fits no equivalent passage in the poem . |
| 26 | There are a couple of things I want to do before it reaches us . ’ |
| 27 | These are precisely the questions that the peace movement has to address when it contemplates the use of law and many of these aspects are discussed in Part III of the book . |
| 28 | It is true that headline inflation has reduced since it peaked in 1982 with the infamous ‘ gotcha ’ . |
| 29 | Duncan enjoyed the moment of take-off , that split second when the bird starts to fly as it comes free of the land . |
| 30 | From Philips ' point of view , DVI looks threatening because it enables full frame full motion video to be accessed from a standard CD-ROM . |