Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 2 | In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees , consisting of representatives of senior management , the internal audit department and external auditors , to meet . |
| 3 | True to Bonnie 's prediction it began snowing that night . |
| 4 | From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline . |
| 5 | ‘ Langdale Head from Wallend , ’ is an impressive little print : as well as aquatint it appears to have soft-ground etching on the fell and rocks . |
| 6 | On Oct. 14 the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) amended an electoral law it had promulgated one week earlier . |
| 7 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 8 | To understand the classicists it helps to have some understanding of what they were reacting against . |
| 9 | And then in er on a case by case basis it says implement this change ? |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Unix International is being very secretive about an announcement it expects to make this week that it hopes will propel the industry further along the path of unity . |
| 11 | As part of this process it intends to give greater support to interdisciplinary proposals relating to the successful management of technical change and innovation . |
| 12 | In recent years it has paid particular attention to M0 , M4 and M5 . |
| 13 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 14 | But because it is happening in Africa it has received little attention . |
| 15 | Energis is the name chosen by the UK 's National Grid Company for the telephone service it plans to launch next year , delivered along fibre optic lines that will run along its 4,200 miles of overhead power lines and 360 miles of underground cable : the company — owned by the 12 regional UK electricity distributors , hopes to get the go-ahead for its planned service in a few weeks , and has heavyweights Gordon Owen , formerly of Mercury Communications Ltd , and David Dey , formerly British Telecommunications Plc on board to run the business . |
| 16 | Since its foundation it has held nine biennial congresses and one special general meeting in various parts of the United Kingdom , at which papers on various subjects relating to the deaf and dumb have been read and discussed , and resolutions passed . |
| 17 | Yet within a month it had received additional funding and increased sessions and would be able to meet demands previously unattainable . |
| 18 | In practical terms it means taking that course of action which most reliably will avoid the possibility of criticism by their superiors . |
| 19 | Since such a system seemed well founded in Britain it chose to ignore British fascism , unlike the Communist Party , which was prepared to fight the BUF on the streets at Olympia and Cable Street . |
| 20 | … ultimately the real value of this book may lie in the intellectual stimulation it provides to view traditional material in physical geography in a new light . |
| 21 | Yeah it 's about , it 's a true story It 's got this man right , and they killed him just to get the diamonds , and now she 's acting as a , and she 's killing them . |
| 22 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 23 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 24 | To cater for demand at peak times it has to build extra power stations , which are then idle during times of day when demand is lower . |
| 25 | In the west it has had little success ; in the east it has been a smash . |
| 26 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |
| 27 | Turning to coal instead , the higher temperatures it achieved enabled English glass makers to develop an intrinsically stronger product . |
| 28 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 29 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 30 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |