Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employing one full-time and two trainee staff , it fabricates and supplies brass fittings for fireplaces and produces architectural brass fittings to order . |
| 2 | To break down such barriers , Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information . |
| 3 | As the Gypsey Race meanders through the estate it encourages and supports much wildlife and some quite rare birds . |
| 4 | But worth it to see and hear former President , Ronald Reagan . |
| 5 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 6 | The theory can be described as a characterisation of the possible patterns or as the destructive part of the problem — it destroys or eliminates certain possibilities . |
| 7 | It was not my little money and the confidence he erroneously imagined it engendered that came briefly to his rescue , but my blind passion for him . |
| 8 | And , blimey , it turns and bounces too and that was that . ’ |
| 9 | couple of decades there has been an unparalleled interest in the occult and astrology and Satanism , and witchcraft and society at large , on the one hand it worships at the shrine of science and technology and then it turns and pays its cash , and it does pay its cash , and its homage at the signs of the zodiac , and at the other various things dealing wi or are a part of the occult . |
| 10 | His statement hung like an arrow in the air , just before it turns and begins its fatal descent . |
| 11 | If it hears a bat afar , it turns and flees ; if it is surprised by one nearby , it goes into a crazy flight . |
| 12 | It turns and disappears . |
| 13 | It checked and looked at her . |
| 14 | The puppy is born blind ; it sleeps and eats a great deal , gradually building up its size and strength . |
| 15 | When deciding the environment of the system being modelled , keep in mind the simple definition that applies in this context , ie it influences but does n't control the system , and also the notion that the environment provides the inputs to the system and receives the outputs from it . |
| 16 | The way in which a municipality legislates and the way in which it administers the legislation it enacts and conducts itself in relation to activities which it lawfully undertakes can not but create a municipal reputation , be it good , bad or indifferent . |
| 17 | This way and that it rippled and shivered and then was still , a great sea . |
| 18 | The next thing was to make it eat and drink . |
| 19 | The way in which this important directive is implemented , and the financial incentives provided under it to support and intensify agriculture in the UK 's uplands , are the main factors causing the nature conservation/agriculture conflict . |
| 20 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 21 | With the substantial reality of an ether existing in space as accepted by Quantum Physics , in line with the ancient Vedic teachings , we can now look at the movement of this energy and how it integrates and forms this material world we know according to modern twentieth-century understanding as well as past views . |
| 22 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 23 | Entering from under the pit of his arm it pierced and split his left shoulder joint , and his body swivelled slowly into an upright position , suspended on the horn . |
| 24 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 25 | And with fine understatement it records where getting from A to B is virtually impossible : ‘ There are no rail services in Equatorial Guinea , few tarred roads , very few buses and no taxis . ’ |
| 26 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 27 | If Gaddafi survived , would it weaken or strengthen his position as leader ? |
| 28 | The students are encouraged to raise capital by selling shares and use it to plan and manufacture their own products . |
| 29 | On and on it goes and goes on still . |
| 30 | Once , twice , three times until , yes , it goes and opens its eyes and gets right up , right as rain — ; |