Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Relations between Slovenia and Serbia deteriorated sharply during early July , following the publication on July 2 of a formal declaration by the Slovenian Assembly in which it proclaimed the full sovereignty of the Slovenian republic .
2 Under the Acts of Parliament ( Commencement ) Act 1793 , an Act comes into force on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent unless otherwise provided , with effect from the last moment of the previous day .
3 For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief .
4 Perhaps the human race is beset by problems which it lacks the moral capital to resolve .
5 When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges .
6 Nothing was more spiritual than music , but the characteristic form in which it entered the bourgeois home was the piano , an exceedingly large , elaborate and expensive apparatus , even when reduced , for the benefit of a more modest stratum aspiring to true bourgeois values , to the more manageable dimensions of the upright ( pianino ) .
7 Prefabricated fibreglass pools , pool-liners and traditional concrete can all yield a first-class formal water feature , for this aspect of the design merely affects the surface , the shape that the pool takes and , to a lesser extent , the manner in which it adjoins the surrounding garden .
8 In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’
9 At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision .
10 ( 3 ) The magnetic field in the disk and its coupling to the coronal gas above and below the plane may grow in strength to the point at which it destabilizes the planar flow .
11 This should effectively see off any disease which it appears the Regal Tang is suffering from .
12 Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) .
13 They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call
14 In fact , ’ he hesitated here , ‘ if you ask me it proves the very opposite . ’
15 ‘ If you ask me it proves the very opposite . ’
16 The majority are now unemployed , resources are few , but they can manage 50p a head for the garden , and for many of them it provides the only pleasure they have in life .
17 The National Children 's Home says many ca n't even afford basic necessities like food and clothing , It 's calling for immediate government action to help what it calls The Lost Generation
18 The exhibition , mounted until Sunday by the Cypriot government , aims to make propaganda over what it calls the cultural devastation of the Turkish sector since the invasion — a claim disputed by the Turks .
19 It is scarcely surprising that when the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries examined this problem it found a ‘ lack of clarity and certainty and purpose ’ among what it called the sponsoring government departments .
20 The Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , involving a 20-kilometre diversion of the Danube along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary , was to have been bilateral venture , but Hungary withdrew in 1989 because of what it considered the unjustifiable environment effect , including the pollution of drinking water and destruction of wetlands .
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