Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does property pass when the letter is posted or when it arrives ? |
| 2 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 3 | Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) . |
| 4 | Numerous demonstrations were held as war approached and after it broke out , the largest protest being on Jan. 12 when 40,000 attended two rallies in Paris . |
| 5 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 6 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 7 | I 'll tell Alison the accountant then , and she 'll tell me what she 's sold and how many contracts we 've booked and but it 's done in front of everybody else while everybody , why everybody else who 's on the phone . |
| 8 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 9 | Only one arrangement looked as though it belonged together : those two lines of dots and blanks , they must be binary numbers . |
| 10 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 11 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 12 | As the first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the open doorway , the newly-plastered room looked as though it had been covered in the night by a fine layer of pinkish-buff snow . |
| 13 | His hair , by contrast , fell untidily to his shoulders and his patchy beard looked as though it had been stuck on at random . |
| 14 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
| 15 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 16 | Bicker 's face looked as though it had been ground out on a millstone , but Ratagan was beaming . |
| 17 | For once he really looked quite smart , in well-cut grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and strength of his thighs , and a cream shirt that actually looked as though it had been ironed . |
| 18 | A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al . |
| 19 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 20 | ‘ Would he have said that if it had been 0–0 ? ’ asked some hard-bitten locals pertinently . |
| 21 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 22 | As one man expressed it : ‘ When all 's said and done we have to get a product out and the management are interested in how cheap it can be done and although it means sacrificing the worker it means one has a cheap product . ’ |
| 23 | and we were gon na get the police to ge w well i it just said the , the short name and we thought it was a boy that had written and if it had 've been we were gon na get the police because she 's under age you see . |
| 24 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 25 | It is also important to check that the limited company has already been incorporated and that it does actually have the power to own the property . |
| 26 | One torso is so weathered that little can be said but that it does seem to show the same primitive technique as Nikandre 's . |
| 27 | Remember that , even if no such room exists for you , you have written as though it does . |
| 28 | In this unorthodox theory this is interpreted as the typical time for which a dust grain moved through space after it was formed and before it accreted to the Moon . |
| 29 | The argument failed for the very good reason that the disposition of the company 's property took place when the charge was created and not when the charge was enforced ; the floating charge is an existing charge and not one arising in the future when the charge is enforced or when it crystallises . |
| 30 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |