Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 2 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 3 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 4 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 5 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 6 | Erm in Plato talks about the , the weaving together of forms and it says erm er it 's it 's er through the weaving together of forms that reason arises in us and but then again this is the level of as well so I think that this is the , the origin of this notion that all the forms are in each , they 're all woven together somehow . |
| 7 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 8 | I 've always been fond of animals and it interests me to have them about to look at . |
| 9 | It takes a set of fragments and it forms them into a pattern . |
| 10 | This too encourages the flow of savings as it gives savers the confidence that their savings will earn a good rate of interest . |
| 11 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 12 | A repertoire of songs that it has heard |
| 13 | Lower alcohol drinks can help weight reduction too as alcohol is a high provider of calories and it makes sense if you are watching your weight to drink lower alcohol drinks . |
| 14 | A unit of Goblins fears any unit of Elves that it does not outnumber by at least two to one . |
| 15 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 16 | It is included in this discussion of emotions as it represents the lowest state of emotional energy , as well as physical and mental energy . |
| 17 | When the articulative process works well , the pattern of elements that it organizes comes to seem ‘ natural ’ ; in this form it usually spreads widely through society . |
| 18 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 19 | Nowadays , most physicians would regard this as an over-radical approach to the problem of warts but it does reflect the despair , by no means restricted to those days , felt by doctors trying to cope with recurrent genital condylomata . |
| 20 | The problem of mental disorder is a considerable one , both numerically and in the range of needs that it gives rise to . |
| 21 | ( a ) a general introduction to the topic or concept that the teaching unit is concerned with and a brief description of its potential ( b ) very clear instructions on how to drive the program , usually including a key-by-key sequence to introduce the user to it and a clear description of the full range of possibilities that it offers ( c ) a description of some of the ways teachers have used the unit ( d ) discussion of its educational objectives and suggestions for further use ( e ) references to educational material that would provide support for this topic or concept ( f ) a full annotated program listing with specifications of the different computer systems that would support the software . |
| 22 | The NRA displays such a terrifying range of weapons because it thinks it necessary . |
| 23 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 24 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 25 | Wordsworth produced quantities of verse in the next forty-three years : I stress the exact number of years because it amounts to over half his lifetime , and certainly to two-thirds of his poetic existence . |
| 26 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 27 | Bosses may take a good look at your hands during an interview and it 's quite common for men to put well-kept nails high on their list of priorities when it comes to women . |
| 28 | ‘ It makes me believe that the NFU leadership is unwilling to do anything to really fight for the interests of farmers if it embarrasses the Tory Government . |
| 29 | It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past . |
| 30 | Clarify can immediately lay claim to the widest breath of platforms since it runs client/server fashion on PCs , Macs and Unix workstations supporting Windows , MacOS and Motif , all in native mode , along with Sybase . |