Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As for the game against Arsenal ; it 's hard to tell not having seen it or heard a radio commentary , but it looks like we 're continuing on nicely from last year : - (
2 Once drawn , of course , the line can be modified at will by simply selecting the anchor point you wish to modify and either dragging it or adjusting the handles to alter the curvature of the lines .
3 Not necessarily no , piggyback is where you asked , you asked me several questions and su and then either added another question to it or asked a question and gave an answer and by doing that you are limiting my responses and I was n't sure which an which question I was answering .
4 I think , I bet , I think you could wear it or put a belt round and make it into a it might not be , you can tuck it under , you know , put , like a blouse effect .
5 Charlotte watch that pen and get it out your mouth now either use it or put the lid on it and put it away .
6 Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires …
7 The less knowledgeable may attempt to forestall it or remove the child 's attention from it .
8 Perhaps the reason why so many people say it or use the other favourite , ‘ yoU know ’ , at the end of sentences is that they are uncertain whether other people understand them .
9 Would you recommend that I got rid of some of it then by paying my poll tax or doing something with it or use the money to live off ?
10 Thus in considering whether there is a sufficient connection with this country the court will look at all the circumstances , including the residence and place of business of the defendant , his connection with the insolvent , the nature and purpose of the transaction being impugned , the nature and locality of the property involved , the circumstances in which the defendant became involved in the transaction or received a benefit from it or acquired the property in question , whether the defendant acted in good faith , and whether under any relevant foreign law the defendant acquired an unimpeachable title free from any claims even if the insolvent had been adjudged bankrupt or wound up locally .
11 Less than a quarter claimed to have read all of it or to remember the topics it dealt with .
12 So that you 're not think , Oh You 're first thought cos I know the way you you were working , you 're thinking Oh if I just double that , half it or take a third of it or something like that .
13 Why something should trouble you , yet you are unable to place it or resolve the matter until months later ?
14 Well er , I think probably , I mean i so , this lady came on Friday and she 's coming on Friday of this week to collect it or collect the tapes
15 Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me .
16 The new rule allows them to either reduce it or to make no charge .
17 Planning permission , rights of way , etc — it is common practice to buy a property intending to say , extend it or run a business from it .
18 ( d ) The supplier must have failed within a reasonable time of the request , to comply with it or to identify the person who supplied him with the product ( s. 2(3) ( c ) ) .
19 When she came to an intersection , she had ignored it or taken a new direction without bothering to think about it .
20 He never actually produced it or named the State Department Communists on it .
21 He said : ‘ I think its important , when you have a recovery , you do n't want forms of taxation which might damage it or hit the cash flow of companies . ’
22 All that wickedness , and you do n't have to explain it or understand it or do a bloody thing about it except put a stop to it .
23 Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ?
24 Did he buy it or did the agents ?
25 Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation .
26 Dennis is the one is n't it that drinks a lot ?
27 But what is it that enables a person to recognise a pain as having its source in , say , his finger ?
28 Loyalty to the old King did nothing to establish Drummonds with his heir — and indeed the story has it that curbing the Prince 's spending on the orders of the King led to Drummonds being abandoned by the new monarch in favour of Coutts .
29 For what is it that qualifies a given topic as a possible existent ?
30 Upon what authority do the clients participate and whose initiative was it that launched the participation ?
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