Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressed up or down it fits the fill for every occasion and will be one of the easiest things you have ever made — try it in linen , washed silk or a floral print |
| 2 | This is a stylish reversible fleece jacket — you can either have the fleece on the outside , with the Sans Compromis logo emblazoned on the back , or reverse it to have the Tactel fabric as the outer . |
| 3 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 4 | Is it music for his imagined funeral , or does it remind the singer that although unhappy , he is in love ? |
| 5 | Does ‘ the constitution ’ mean the make-up of the committee or does it mean the constitutionality of the committee ? |
| 6 | Does the phrase ‘ I Do Hereby exoner , acquit and simpliciter Discharge ’ mean any more than ‘ I Do Hereby Discharge ’ or even ‘ I Discharge ’ , or does it leave the layman wondering if the words contain some qualification to or extension of an absolute discharge , slipped in by a crafty lawyer to defeat the ends of justice ? |
| 7 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 8 | Does it lead to — even require — greater openness , or does it close the mind up ? |
| 9 | Nor has it fulfilled the wishes of the Vice-Chancellor under whom Lady Barber made the original bequest ‘ that the University of Birmingham would be the first of the modern universities to give effective expression to the claim of the Fine Arts ’ as ‘ an academic discipline and an indispensable element in humane and liberal studies ’ . |
| 10 | Casting itself as a tiny company imperilled by a giant shark , BSDI makes much of the fact that USL has not sued the University nor has it stopped the University from distributing the software . |
| 11 | Marxist ideology was no better guarantee of Vietcong decency 20 years ago than it now is for Swapo ; nor has it preserved the Sandinistas from endemic corruption in their civil war against the American-backed Contras . |
| 12 | It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood . |
| 13 | Greenpeace in turn criticized the Commission 's proposals on the grounds that they would give industry a licence to burn waste rather than encourage it to minimize the production of waste . |
| 14 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 15 | Nor did it want the return of a population that would dissent from the Zionist identity of the state and threaten it demographically . |
| 16 | The debate had no practical importance , nor did it influence the direction and methods of further research . |
| 17 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 18 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 19 | Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions . |
| 20 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 21 | This does not prevent members from seeking an injunction to restrain the act from being done , nor does it affect the liability of the directors for such an act ( s. 35(1) — ( 3 ) CA ) . |
| 22 | Tolerance does not blind a man to the imperfections or faults of a religion , nor does it blur the distinction between religion and irreligion , but it does deliver a man from fanaticism with regard to his own faith . |
| 23 | conclude that the data from the studies of internal validity show that the test does not adequately integrate the eleven subtests , nor does it explain the relationship between the subtests or between subtest performance and other relevant behaviour . |
| 24 | This in no way underestimates the contribution of families to the welfare of their members : nor does it diminish the importance of care in the community . |
| 25 | Intense searches have revealed no optical or other signal from the partner , nor does it eclipse the quasar . |
| 26 | Nor does it resemble the bravura footing of Kitri in the Don Quixote pas de deux or the passages in Ashton 's Ondine where his ballerina appears to be floating through water . |
| 27 | ( Unlike some birds , it does not dive vertically into the water , nor does it pursue the fish while under water ; kingfishers are plunge-divers , who go rapidly straight to the target . ) |
| 28 | This state of affairs neither eliminates bureaucratic in-fighting nor does it rid the system of mid-ranking officials attached to interests and issues and skilled at maintaining their prerogatives . |
| 29 | What the report does not mention is whether MI6 received any overtures from the KGB to exchange Blake , nor does it consider the possibility that the KGB might want to free an agent who served it so well . |
| 30 | In the words of the Ministry : ‘ This is not a sufficiently rigorous restoration , nor does it respect the monument ’ . |