Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Many cities run the trees through chippers , paying for the operation by selling the mulch or using it in public parks .
2 Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms .
3 It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant .
4 Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance .
5 When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load .
6 Textbooks on research methods rarely mention the problems that arise when undertaking research on controversial topics or conducting it in sensitive locations .
7 Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things .
8 Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem .
9 Term Characteristic Six months Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 does not apply to a tenancy for a term of years certain not exceeding six months unless : ( 1 ) it contains provision for renewing the term or extending it beyond six months from its beginning ; or ( 2 ) the tenant has been in occupation for a period which , together with any period during which any predecessor in his business was in occupation , exceeds twelve months ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s43(3) ) .
10 He was not so much concerned , as the tribal sculptor was , with conveying his idea about an object , but rather with recording it or interpreting it in pictorial terms .
11 At no time should you ever share this knowledge with other residents or talk about their affairs , unless it is relevant to improving their care or reviewing it with other members of staff concerned .
12 Admirable as such schemes seemed from St Petersburg , they looked very different on the ground : it was reported from one ‘ city ’ designated an administrative hub that no one had entered or left it for three months .
13 Sinhalese cattle medicine called for branding the animal with particular designs in order to give it strength or to cure it of various illnesses .
14 If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts .
15 Consequently , many customers are banning smoking or restricting it to certain areas of the office or canteen , yet it is perfectly feasible to banish the smoke without banning smoking , by installing the latest electrostatic air filters .
16 After such training a given element will , when the stimulus is applied , be the target both of external input and of internal input by way of the associative links that connect it to other elements .
17 The body has a defence system that protects it against outside invaders .
18 The Council feel that SARU should concentrate on raising money for the development of rugby in the townships rather than spend it on overseas tours to countries which can not afford to finance the visits .
19 Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) .
20 One peculiar characteristic of the British Parliament that distinguishes it from many legislatures in other countries , and particularly from the United States Congress , is the slight use made of specialized committees .
21 Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy .
22 Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods .
23 Since OCLC already have records from Missouri and New York Botanic Garden Libraries , I realised that a large proportion of our records would therefore already be in the OCLC system , and buying-in existing data is much cheaper than creating it as new records .
24 A great deal has been written of the Pilgrims Road and its travellers and its river crossings and I 'm of the opinion that more Pilgrims to Canterbury follow this route now than followed it in Mediaeval times ( howls of protest ) .
25 The Parade is the stage and the great offices of state that enclose it on three sides are the décor .
26 Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others .
27 Higher profits indicate a more favourable return on capital , which may encourage companies to reinvest any surplus rather than devote it to alternative uses .
28 So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning .
29 The ego , as says , is open to the outside world and furthermore to stimulations from inside , from inside the body , that reach it through subjective sensations like hunger when you need food , or fear when something threatens you , and cognitive er awareness like er okay you realize that before you have your lunch you 're gon na have to go to the bank to get some money to pay for it .
30 He proposed a theory in which the germ plasm was totally isolated from the adult body that transmits it to future generations .
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