Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |
| 2 | If pilots are apprehensive about cable breaks it probably means that they are uncertain about what they should do in all situations , and whether they can manage . |
| 3 | If you 're asking a civil engineer to do some work for you i if that civil engineer has a degree does it automatically mean that the work 's going to be perfect and wonderful ? |
| 4 | I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ? |
| 5 | Does it always seem that those biting insects get you but not your best friend ? |
| 6 | Does it really matter whether Marco Polo had a beard , wore an earring or had six black teeth ? |
| 7 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 8 | Does it really matter that pupils know Jesus had 12 disciples and what their names were ? |
| 9 | Yes , okay , could we ask Mr Chairman , on this particular thing on this arson business in one thing that we did express concern of were a number of years that are invariably are started we 've called in to do the research into this and the investigation , so ar does this add now the fact that you 're more sophisticated , does it now mean that your having more staff er , devoted to this , because this was a question that whether we should do it , or whether the police should be doing it ? |
| 10 | This is n't as bad as it seems ; switching a PC on and off does it more harm than leaving it powered up . |
| 11 | Does it therefore follow that an ageing population inevitably implies some impoverishment , if not among elderly , then among younger people ? |
| 12 | Does it necessarily follow that it will ? |
| 13 | Nor does it necessarily follow that if polytechnics were somehow to promote part-time and sub-degree courses , that they would be taken up by large numbers of children of manual workers . |
| 14 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 15 | Control Data Corp is this week tipped to announce its adoption of Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC chip , which it will use in systems that 'll sit alongside the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC boxes it already builds and OEMs . |
| 16 | Insisting that detailed historical evidence makes it hard to categorise and structure a developed narrative to specific events , this revisionist historical practice refuses to determine anything beyond what ‘ the evidence ’ precisely articulates . |
| 17 | These are called lunar transient events and their very transience makes it hard to determine whether all of them are illusory . |
| 18 | FOLLOWING an elderly taxi in London or heavy truck up a country hill , both spewing clouds of acrid smoke , makes it hard to believe that diesel exhausts can be no more harmful than those from a petrol engine that has been fitted with a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 19 | It is thought that the government will follow the Iraqi cause , but the country depends on US and French aid to an extent which makes it hard to believe that the government will take any action to prejudice its continuance . |