Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | C 224 , p. 3 ) , it agreed that it was lawful to require undertakings operating fishing vessels to maintain a representation on shore in the flag state . |
| 2 | It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority . |
| 3 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 4 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 5 | This may be all good fun , but is it justified when it is at the composer 's expense , and does not pay any regard to the evident persistence of the mensural tradition so obvious in the composer 's manuscripts ? |
| 6 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 7 | Dr Burstead — when I gave it to him he put it in his mouth and bit it to see that it was a good 'un . |
| 8 | If you use a videocassette recorder with this facility , check it to see if it has a socket you can plug a microphone into . |
| 9 | What do you think influenced you , I mean if you went to choose a chair did you sit on it to see if it was comfortable or were you more interested in what it looked like ? |
| 10 | We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible . |
| 11 | We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible . |
| 12 | you 've just bought a car or you 've got a car you can take it and the police look over it to see if it 's alright . |
| 13 | Yeah I mean the would be very nice if you could get it to go cos it is it is quite acceptable speech . |
| 14 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 15 | In being normative it avows that it does not necessarily conform to everyone 's notion of authority in all detail . |
| 16 | The weight of development money from such a vast army of different interests behind it mean that it will dominate what used to be known as the data processing department however much the purists suck their teeth in fastidious disdain . |
| 17 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 18 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 19 | Now the Sale of Goods Act is good erm as far as it goes but it 's |
| 20 | Now I have gone beyond thirty one because I just wanted to show you the way it goes and it 's easy . |
| 21 | if I 'd have known about that , if it goes , it goes and it do n't we should get something out of it . |
| 22 | This may be the extreme consequence of a health service which , although it insists that it puts patients first , often does n't do so at all . |
| 23 | Measures during September to enforce the trade embargo at sea included ( i ) US action on Sept. 4 to stop the Iraqi freighter Zanubia , carrying tea from Sri Lanka , which was re-routed without the cargo being impounded ; ( ii ) the searching of the tanker Faur in the Gulf of Oman on Sept. 14 ; ( iii ) warning shots fired on Sept. 27 by a US naval vessel prior to the boarding by US Marines of the Iraqi tanker Tadmur , which was allowed to proceed after it was verified that it carried no cargo ; and ( iv ) the first UK action , on Sept. 30 , when HMS Jupiter stopped an Indian merchant vessel , Akebar , off Qatar , on its return from delivering humanitarian food supplies , but allowed it to proceed after it was found to be carrying refugees and was declared free of contraband . |
| 24 | But anyone who knows anything about it understands that it is very far removed from being an ‘ interchangeable with Labour ’ vote . |
| 25 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 26 | No it buzzes while it 's on . |
| 27 | Well it 's like erm an it 's like it make it fancy and it goes |
| 28 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 29 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |
| 30 | During the afternoon , it announced that it would auction a new stock later in the month , providing an expected further £2 billion to £3 billion , to start funding the public sector borrowing requirement , which is forecast at £28 billion for this year . |