Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [conj] it [vb -s] " 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 | The condition is treated with sulphonamides or tetracyclines and the inguinal bubo may be aspirated or drained before it bursts . |
| 3 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 4 | Most pumps have a filter to clean the incoming air , and this needs cleaning or replacing when it gets dirty . |
| 5 | It can be snorted'' or injected but it does not vaporise easily and is not suitable for inhaling or smoking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | fair or freckled skin that does n't tan or burns before it tans |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Only today I received a document from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals that shows that it does not understand . |
| 16 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 17 | The Russians themselves have developed a ‘ killer ’ satellite that explodes as it passes a target spacecraft . |
| 18 | You do n't want a horse that fidgets and it 's got to trust you … then they 'll go anywhere really . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then , since it is whether or not a cell actually responds that determines whether it undergoes the slow modification process , the slow process would make cortical neurons become permanently tuned to this uncorrelated set of features . |
| 21 | I do n't know the difference that makes but it 's got an option , something like erm |
| 22 | rather than say if it does n't arrive at a set time |
| 23 | Pneumonia during the prepatent phase may cause signs of dyspnoea and depression , whereas the presence of adult worms and excess mucus in the trachea lead to signs of asphyxia or suffocation with the bird gasping for air ; often there is a great deal of head shaking and coughing as it tries to rid itself of the obstruction . |
| 24 | We are already falling into the trap of describing an ideal world and suggesting that it exists . |
| 25 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 26 | If proven that it constitutes Treasure Trove ( i.e. it was buried with the intention of later removal , rather than as part of a funerary burial ) , it is most likely to be retained by the Crown for the British Museum and the finder paid a sum equal to the market value of what is retained . |
| 27 | And then we are surprised and upset when it fails to do so . |
| 28 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 29 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 30 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |