Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A bib had been tied around Bissell 's neck to collect the raw , liquid plaster which oozed from his mouth where it congealed and hardened .
2 The Government will cause that because it has no mandate so it follows that if the Government has no mandate you must resist its attempts to exercise one . ’
3 This is a typical result and it seems that , like the tendons , the early development of the muscles is quite autonomous .
4 Within days I had changed my mind and it seemed that the only sensible form of transport would be a Sherman tank .
5 We wake in the night with a churning mind and it seems that nothing will settle the anxiety .
6 It uses some printer Escape sequences which are discussed in the " Printer Escape Sequences " sub-section and it assumes that the Printer Editor has been used to set " Off at CR " to " No " for bold and underline .
7 This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo .
8 The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips .
9 It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock .
10 They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack .
11 Thirdly , a court might decline to allow judicial review if it thought that the alternative dispute-settling body possessed relevant expertise which the court lacked ; or , fourthly , if the case raised issues which could be considered by the alternative body but not by the court on judicial review ; or , fifthly , if the alternative body 's procedure was better suited to resolving the case than judicial review procedure .
12 The following dietary guideline can be woven into therapy if it appears that the client has an unhealthy diet .
13 He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt .
14 Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard .
15 They have no power to take any action and it appears that their potential to increase the level of accountability and to develop policing by consent is minimal .
16 This was essentially a gentle action and it ensured that as little corn as possible would be shed and lost on the ground .
17 He still looked a bit dubious and David said , ‘ One thing you can tell Len , something I forgot , was that I made enquiries today about his parrot and it appears that if he does go to Conway House he 'll be able to take the parrot with him .
18 In Oe. radiatum infections in cattle , the pathogenic effect is also attributed to the nodules ( up to 5.0 mm in diameter ) in the intestine and it appears that as few as 500 larvae are sufficient to produce clinical signs .
19 A walking , talking compendium of that great paradox of apartheid which has at its heart the maxim that crime is n't a crime if it supports and strengthens the system .
20 And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days .
21 Maybe erm maybe our culture has particular metaphors , particular ways of understanding ways of human distress and it seems that very often when people have a rather non-specific distress these days , I mean it 's very common to find that erm counsellors , professionals , will be looking in into people 's backgrounds , looking into people 's backgrounds for evidence of child sex abuse .
22 Shaw said : ‘ It 's difficult to work out his programme but it seems that he analysed his subjects and classified their attributes , their doings , and the major events in their lives by coded numbers .
23 The EC gets irritated at the mention of fraud because it fears that it weakens the Commission 's hand in GATT talks .
24 Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid .
25 The Educational Institute of Scotland has organised industrial action because it argues that the new school is still basically Bellarmine in a different building .
26 The application of dynamic input is more restricted than static recognition since it demands that the user have available a suitable input device at the time of writing and is obviously only applicable to handwritten text .
27 Do this for three days in succession and you will be able to make up your own mind whether it works or not .
28 The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell .
29 In Benton v Campbell , Parker and Co Ltd [ 1925 ] 2 KB 410 , it was held that the auctioneer was not liable to the purchaser for the sale of a car when it transpired that the person who put the car into the auction was not the owner .
30 Share research as it starts and whenever there is something to say by contacting SCRE Information Services .
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