Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that it helps them to study , but do n't accept that . |
| 2 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |
| 3 | Some hold that it follows from this that the priest must be male : |
| 4 | The ways of doing this vary and it depends on your personal skills . |
| 5 | Some argue that it does . |
| 6 | The IMF said in its April 1991 forecast that it expected the US economy to shrink by 0.1 per cent in 1991 , before making a full recovery to 2.8 per cent growth in 1992 . |
| 7 | These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium . |
| 8 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 9 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 10 | Many suspect that it has weakened auditors ' ability to take a strong line with directors . |
| 11 | Each House has its privileges ( though many are identical ) and whilst the modus vivendi above referred to may inveigh against interference by the ordinary courts into the affairs of the House of Commons , it is not at all clear that it precludes comment by the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords on the affairs of the House of Lords . |
| 12 | We all know that it happens , but none of us know how or why . |
| 13 | Yet we all know that it goes on — under the counter , as it were . |
| 14 | We all know that it goes on . |
| 15 | The latest statistics , for 1991/ 92 , show that it leapt again to 65% and preliminary estimates for 1992/93 indicate that it has gone even higher . |
| 16 | Many believe that it lies under the church of San Vincenzo in Prato , even though there is no historical record of the church before the year 806 . |
| 17 | Yet the time has come when many doubt whether it remains sensible to persevere in recycling the classical law in order to incorporate all the new challenges to its doctrinal system . |
| 18 | No serious historian today accepts the theory that it was the result of a plot or conspiracy ; almost all agree that it followed , almost by accident rather than design , from the confused events of 19–24 August . |
| 19 | All agree that it involves a process of discipline and self-knowledge as a means to liberate the spirit , much as the grace and apparently effortless expressiveness of dance is , paradoxically , the fruit of rigorous physical discipline . |
| 20 | The Marxist theory of imperialism has been robustly challenged and robustly defended from many directionsl and it has left its mark on most subsequent theories of the global system . |
| 21 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 22 | Doddie Weir still has a lot to learn about No 8 play when it comes to back-row moves , witness the occasion against England when he picked up against the wheel and still tried to complete the move . |
| 23 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 24 | Admittedly , this is a Treasury matter , but it can not possibly be beyond the ability of Treasury Ministers to work out an effective formula to ensure that the Ministry of Defence is properly rewarded for any help that it gives . |
| 25 | Most acknowledge that it has a power of its own , which powerfully affects gender relations , and needs to be understood . |
| 26 | Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today . |
| 27 | The more pompous argue that it destroys the dignity of the service . |
| 28 | ‘ A friend of mine who 's a florist got married the other day and she had a really lovely do and it cost almost nothing . |