Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it agreed that negotiations with Henry VIII for the marriage of Mary and Edward should begin . |
| 2 | It agrees that companies should be publicly accountable in return for the privilege of limited liability , it says , but that accountability lies in filing the accounts , rather than their audit . |
| 3 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 4 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 5 | Yeah ours is in airing , you 've got to bend down and look at it to see if light 's on . |
| 6 | ‘ And Miss Miggs would be glad for it to go because boys have been climbing over her garden wall trying to get it , ’ finished Christine . |
| 7 | Like the reprise of La Discorde 's music in the final scene of L'Europe galante and other innovations in Les Muses and Les fêtes vénitiennes , it denotes that Campra glimpsed the dramatic potential of thematic recall , in advance of his time . |
| 8 | It succeeded because Sigibert II was extremely young , while Chlothar II was well established . |
| 9 | And it revealed that profits jumped from just £700,000 to £3,500,000 in six months . |
| 10 | For instance , it revealed that 70% of dads believe breast is best . |
| 11 | It revealed that 79% of the sample was now aware of the term ‘ Open Systems ’ — a dramatic increase since the launch of the programme . |
| 12 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 13 | It 's a Walkman but it records and plays and it 's got the radio in it as well . |
| 14 | They used to call it drawing or clipping and scalloping you see . |
| 15 | It expected that Scott would produce a building to vie with his great designs abroad and concluded with the hope that ‘ the recent discussions in which so much misapprehension has been exhibited will not shake your determination to carry out the selected design ’ . |
| 16 | The Tour is the focus of a local fair wherever it goes and celebrations last into the night . |
| 17 | Though it does not deny that subjects do have a duty to God to obey their ruler , it insists that rulers are not absolute , and themselves have duties to their subjects . |
| 18 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 19 | It postulates that agents will have an incentive to seek out information on the underlying ‘ correct ’ model of the economy which , in combination with adaptive expectations , had accounted for the systematic errors of the past . |
| 20 | This warranty does no more ( really ) than repeat the statutory duty which a company already has to keep it books and records in good order . |
| 21 | It asked that members of the Republican Movement be permitted to take part in a civil rights march to Dungannon from Coalisland … |
| 22 | It laughs and shouts and listens to itself numbly . |
| 23 | While a Western eye is familiar with the process of looking , as it were , through an image to what it represents or means , an Eastern critic looks also at the surface of a painting or a drawing , in which a poem or other calligraphic element may form an integral part of the work . |
| 24 | ( Thus in the current debate about the ordination of women , both sides ask what does Jesus ' message suggest is the right thing to do , what difference does it make that Jesus was a male human being , or what kind of a community was the early church ? |
| 25 | ( Question for the reader : what difference would it make if individuals have static expectations so that ? ) |
| 26 | Who is God and what difference does it make if God is not there ? |
| 27 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 28 | And the more I considered it , the more obvious it became that Miss Kenton , with her great affection for this house , with her exemplary professionalism — the sort almost impossible to find nowadays — was just the factor needed to enable me to complete a fully satisfactory staff plan for Darlington Hall . |
| 29 | Will he also confirm that it recommended that Cardiff bay should be included in the Severn estuary special protection area ? |
| 30 | It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed . |