Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people tend to overuse it and/or use it for concepts too complicated for this medium i.e. where a proper report or formal memo or even a meeting would be more appropriate than an e-mail message . |
| 2 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 3 | The knowledge that you are yourself , and the world may like it or loathe it , but here you are . |
| 4 | Love it or loathe it , there is no getting away from the fact that , all around the world , people care deeply about their football . |
| 5 | Review by Keith Thompson LIKE it or loathe it , Victorian Music Hall is at the very root of modern British mainstream comedy . |
| 6 | They are no longer prepared to ‘ like it or lump it ’ with publicly delivered services . |
| 7 | ‘ Like it or lump it , ’ the President said , ‘ I accept it , too . ’ |
| 8 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 9 | If they will insist on arriving unexpectedly , they 'll have to like it or lump it , wo n't they ? |
| 10 | I just said leave it or lump it ! |
| 11 | they , told them they can like it or lump it and they said the miner 's strike , but she still won the election after the miner 's strike which |
| 12 | Yet no one stops it or persuades it to change its mind . |
| 13 | As Nizan himself pointedly remarked in 1935 , " All reactionary literatures dread reality ; they either avoid it or conceal it . |
| 14 | I 'm I 'm not entirely convinced that we have enough control over the existing county schools , never mind , never mind whether we 'd be able to retain it or increase it . |
| 15 | Do they bring the doubt out into the open to examine it or silence it and pretend it never happened ? |
| 16 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 17 | Information gathered by these excursions into adjoining phases is thus fed back into the previous process in order to reinforce the adopted approach , modify it or cause its abandonment . |
| 18 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 19 | I mean there 's carnage on these roads of ours , and people are just not doing anything about it or taking it seriously enough . |
| 20 | The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before . |
| 21 | This is true whether you are reading poetry , listening to it or writing it . |
| 22 | In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway . |
| 23 | Most of the young , rather shabbily dressed people in the pub shouted over it or craned their heads closer to hear . |
| 24 | But once an instrument is recognised as being an Act of Parliament , no English court can refuse to obey it or question its validity . |
| 25 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 26 | It seemed the water of Undersea did n't mingle with it or wash it away . |
| 27 | Watch it or wash it ? |
| 28 | If you do not understand the report you must get the expert either to redraft it or to explain it . |
| 29 | " You 're not asked to like it or dislike it , " she retorted curtly . |
| 30 | Acting alone , the sternal muscles curve the abdomen downwards and the tergals straighten it or bend it upwards . |