Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is entitled To Choose or to Lose and it proclaims a strategy ‘ developed against the background of the desire to solve or gain control of environmental problems within the duration of one generation ’ . |
| 2 | And he did n't know whether to grin or grimace when it produced a point-saver from Wright after a link-up between Steve Bould and Lee Dixon . |
| 3 | The condition is treated with sulphonamides or tetracyclines and the inguinal bubo may be aspirated or drained before it bursts . |
| 4 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 5 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 6 | Most pumps have a filter to clean the incoming air , and this needs cleaning or replacing when it gets dirty . |
| 7 | In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese . |
| 8 | It can be snorted'' or injected but it does not vaporise easily and is not suitable for inhaling or smoking . |
| 9 | Of the water which infiltrates into the soil , some is taken up by vegetation and is transpired and the rest either flows down-slope through the soil as interflow or throughflow until it reaches a stream channel , or sinks through the soil to become part of the groundwater . |
| 10 | fair or freckled skin that does n't tan or burns before it tans |
| 11 | Since these extremists had been principally responsible for the detailed organisation of the march it is not surprising that there were no serious plans to control it , or to ensure that it went off peacefully . |
| 12 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 13 | I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer . |
| 14 | Ms Jackson is not advocating allowing your child to play in a busy road , or watching as it tips a bottle of bleach down its throat . |
| 15 | The next time you start your machine it will still show the lag or lead that it did before you tried to correct it . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 17 | He refused to elaborate on his message except to confirm that it fell within the framework of UN Security Council resolutions , and that it had been delivered to an Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , Sa'adoun Hammadi , who had visited Tehran on Feb. 1-3 . |
| 18 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 19 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 20 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 21 | The velar nasal , described in Chapter 7 , also raises a lot of analysis problems ; some writers have suggested that the correct analysis is one in which there is no phoneme , and this sound is treated as an allophone of the phoneme that occurs when it precedes the phoneme . |
| 22 | So it 's it 's an interest thing as well it keeps the interest it changes the emphasis switches the attention makes a break does n't it it just changes er er a natural break that happens and it changes attention . |
| 23 | jumper over it does that little there that flashes and it get really big . |
| 24 | Only today I received a document from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals that shows that it does not understand . |
| 25 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 26 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 27 | The Russians themselves have developed a ‘ killer ’ satellite that explodes as it passes a target spacecraft . |
| 28 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 29 | You do n't want a horse that fidgets and it 's got to trust you … then they 'll go anywhere really . |
| 30 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |