Example sentences of "it an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union resistance is no excuse for not making profit , nor is it an excuse for long legalistic job descriptions . |
| 2 | Pressure groups , political organisations and other extra-Parliamentary activists vociferously expressed enough anxiety over the potential demographic transformation of British cities and the destruction of British culture to make it an issue within Parliament : the political argument culminated in the Commonwealth Immigrants Bill becoming an Act of Parliament in 1962 . |
| 3 | Those who made it an issue were the direct descendants of the anti-military counter-culture of the 1960s . |
| 4 | In late February , Patrick Buchanan , the conservative newspaper commentator who is opposing President Bush in the 1992 Republican Presidential primaries , threatened to attack the agency 's funding of ‘ offensive ’ art , and make it an issue in his Southern campaign . |
| 5 | In spite of its brilliant career , the society 's delay in giving it an award of merit and a first-class certificate indicates unusual prudence , for ‘ the Château Yquem of apples ’ , as E. A. Bunyard described it in 1929 , did not receive these confirmations of its quality until 1962 . |
| 6 | WHAT is that special quality in a wine that makes it an award winner ? |
| 7 | The reduced police presence in all the former socialist countries has brought with it an increase in crime , and I have no wish to boost the statistics . |
| 8 | Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning . |
| 9 | Was it an increase in the family that caused that ? |
| 10 | It also seems to be a sad fact that the increase in freedom since Die Wende The Turning has brought with it an increase in monetary problems and the 26 artists here , all of them under 40 , obviously have great , heart-searching problems to cope with . |
| 11 | We think of the spoken language , the written language , what in practice do you mean by ‘ language ’ , is it an instruction you type on a keyboard , or what in terms of a computer ? |
| 12 | This does not invite a discussion of the basic principles of sovereignty ; still less is it an invitation to write a general essay on Parliamentary sovereignty . |
| 13 | Was it an invitation or an order ? she wondered . |
| 14 | All those who watched found it an experience which transcended that of an amateur play . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it is correct to call it an experience inasmuch as this concept of understanding has some kinship with other concepts of experience . |
| 16 | Was it an orchestra like ? |
| 17 | Many Eurosport programmes are sponsored already , and by major companies such as Volvo , and that offers it an edge . |
| 18 | The fruits of diversification will be clear even to the most sceptical observers in another few years , they claim , when the company 's new subsidiaries will help Mercedes build still better cars while the company 's ability to throw resources into fast-growing high-tech areas will give it an edge in those markets . |
| 19 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 20 | This is an area where WSL 's long years of work on mineral handling and other processes give it an edge . |
| 21 | There is the danger that it will verge on unmixed eulogy , a veritable paean of praise , owing to an embarrassing lack of material for even the mildest fault-finding that might serve to give it an edge . |
| 22 | But he also gives it an edge and an urgency that turn it into much more than an abstract cafe debate . |
| 23 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |
| 24 | The average man may perhaps think it an exaggeration but I do assure you that this is factually so and nights are not now so dark that I can not be completely aware of what is happening around me before , during and after the nets have been set . |
| 25 | It an add-in exists to solve your specific problem , we will undertake to find it for you to at the best price . |
| 26 | If we are misled by our grammar into thinking that ‘ I expect such-and-such ’ is a report of a mental process then there will seem to be a problem : ‘ What is it about a mental process which makes it an expectation of such-and-such ? |
| 27 | Were it an elephant , our feet would be in its midriff , our heads just under its rib-cage . |
| 28 | There the air rises hotly and on it an eagle may soar further south to where Slorne 's kind live , and where my kind come from too . ’ |
| 29 | Is it an eliminator ? |
| 30 | and you can move the arrow and the cursor , that 's it an arrow and a mouse you just hit it and it expands that bit |