Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be answered by scanning the whole file record by record , examining each to see whether it met the specified requirements . |
| 2 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 3 | There has been wide disagreement among historians concerning the chronology of population recovery , some suggesting that it started before the end of the fourteenth century , others favouring dates around 1430 and others again preferring the early sixteenth century ( 59 ; 75 , p.15 ; 99 , p.269 ) . |
| 4 | Some say that it helps them to study , but do n't accept that . |
| 5 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |
| 6 | Some hold that it follows from this that the priest must be male : |
| 7 | This shows that it contains all the genes , not just some of them . |
| 8 | The ways of doing this vary and it depends on your personal skills . |
| 9 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 10 | His observational sample of prisoner interviews , although small , had found the PACE codes of practice were followed to the letter and he argued this showed that it required the sanction of the law to effect changes in interview and interrogation techniques . |
| 11 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 12 | Essentially , this meant that it had to operate like a company , with a capital structure and a requirement to deliver a return on capital employed , but with the ownership wholly in the hands of the British Government . |
| 13 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 14 | Some argue that it does . |
| 15 | ( This means that it takes up more hospital space than any other single illness . ) |
| 16 | This means that it takes an average of 12 years and $231 million to develop a new drug . |
| 17 | This means that it depends on the host 's cells ' own energy-producing system to provide for its own growth and reproduction . |
| 18 | This means that it becomes difficult , some would say impossible , to specify the ceteris paribus conditions of a theory . |
| 19 | This means that it behaves in a similar way to the three directions that correspond to moving in space . |
| 20 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 21 | As Kahl has said , education ‘ reinforces the existing status system and provides for movement within it ’ ( Kahl 1970 : 137 ) , but this suggests that it does not change the system . |
| 22 | This idea of flexibility applies as much to exercise as it does to food . |
| 23 | But it was surely too much to hope that it had taught the father a permanent lesson . |
| 24 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 25 | Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’ |
| 26 | These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium . |
| 27 | In the end , to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner . |
| 28 | All agreed that it had been an exciting week , sometimes emotional and demanding but in the end enjoyable and full of the message of joy and peace . |
| 29 | We all agreed that it had been a most leisurely and pleasant day out . |
| 30 | And they all agreed that it has . |