Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 2 | According to a Gwynedd County Council report the company said it is unable to tender competitively for contracts unless it has the flexibility of Sunday working . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , latex is not suitable for borders since it dries too quickly and is not durable for exposed and vulnerable areas . |
| 4 | Systems theory is a useful way of identifying complex entities , particularly those which have a functional unity and of talking about relationships but it remains at some level of abstraction from reality . |
| 5 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 6 | It does n't mean that you do n't look for efficiencies but it does mean that we need to recognise that we are putting a burden on our staff which I think we will be callous and stupid to disregard . |
| 7 | This is a public right of way for walkers and it continues as a track alongside Loch Coulin , where camera enthusiasts are often fortunate to find a moored rowing boat posing for the foreground of a perfect picture . |
| 8 | Year round it is popular for walks as it exudes an elegant serenity inspired of the water and the graceful trees . |
| 9 | The latest embarrassment comes after revelations that it costs £19 million a year to run the royal yacht and train and £60 million to staff the royal household . |
| 10 | Rights issue worries were affecting British Airways after reports that it needs to fund expansion plans . |
| 11 | It will use it as an embedded controller in office automation products such as X-terminals after it shrinks it and optimizes its speed . |
| 12 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 13 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 14 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 15 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 16 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 17 | Erm in Plato talks about the , the weaving together of forms and it says erm er it 's it 's er through the weaving together of forms that reason arises in us and but then again this is the level of as well so I think that this is the , the origin of this notion that all the forms are in each , they 're all woven together somehow . |
| 18 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 19 | I 've always been fond of animals and it interests me to have them about to look at . |
| 20 | It takes a set of fragments and it forms them into a pattern . |
| 21 | This too encourages the flow of savings as it gives savers the confidence that their savings will earn a good rate of interest . |
| 22 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 23 | A repertoire of songs that it has heard |
| 24 | Lower alcohol drinks can help weight reduction too as alcohol is a high provider of calories and it makes sense if you are watching your weight to drink lower alcohol drinks . |
| 25 | A unit of Goblins fears any unit of Elves that it does not outnumber by at least two to one . |
| 26 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 27 | It is included in this discussion of emotions as it represents the lowest state of emotional energy , as well as physical and mental energy . |
| 28 | When the articulative process works well , the pattern of elements that it organizes comes to seem ‘ natural ’ ; in this form it usually spreads widely through society . |
| 29 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 30 | Nowadays , most physicians would regard this as an over-radical approach to the problem of warts but it does reflect the despair , by no means restricted to those days , felt by doctors trying to cope with recurrent genital condylomata . |