Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of the dictum in Lord Roskill 's speech in Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 , Parliament had otherwise ordained with regard to recklessness in s.47 — after Spratt it seems that Parliament can otherwise ordain without expressing such a wish . |
| 2 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 3 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 4 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 5 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 6 | Thus as a formal method of scrutiny it has little value . |
| 7 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 8 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 9 | A Fresco ‘ canvas ’ on to which gliffs can be ‘ painted ’ will allow developers create things like two-dimensional geometric figures : like X it has some difficulty with three dimensions at the moment . |
| 10 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 11 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 12 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 13 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 14 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 15 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 16 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 17 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 18 | Indeed , if there is a zero eigenvalue , it appears in the first transformation , i.e. in B. It follows that shifting ( see 2.7.4 ) can be used with great advantage to accelerate convergence . |
| 19 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 20 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |
| 21 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , as it stands at present it has many deficiencies , because : |
| 23 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |