Example sentences of "[coord] [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 I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior .
18 And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came !
19 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 .
20 We are already falling into the trap of describing an ideal world and suggesting that it exists .
21 The fire was so small and mean that it gave no warmth at all .
22 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 .
23 It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church .
24 And then we are surprised and upset when it fails to do so .
25 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 ) .
26 Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential .
27 Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential .
28 We talked for many weeks , and gradually he genuinely came to see my point of view and to agree that it made sense .
29 The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built .
30 The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals .
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