Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designation warrior family ( shizoku ) was no more than an indication of family origins although it continued to have social prestige . |
| 2 | This was welcomed by American businessmen , although it helped to disrupt international trade as other countries retaliated by raising their duties . |
| 3 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |
| 4 | Japan , which would be the only remaining IWC member in favour of whaling if Norway left , says that it plans to use this year 's meeting , to be held in Kyoto , to " press for the resumption of commercial whaling around Japan and in the northern Atlantic " . |
| 5 | Without the original bill we can not be certain of the government 's objectives ; but on balance it seems unlikely that it wished to replace statutory legislation by proclamation . |
| 6 | The college 's development plan reveals that it hopes to give 700 pupils a year a taste of education in one of nine countries funds permitting . |
| 7 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 8 | To do that , it assesses the difference in intensity of the sound in each ear and the infinitesimal difference in time that it takes to reach one ear before the other . |
| 9 | Warwick Collins points out that the keel design not only has a distinct draught advantage over a fin keel , but also claims that it helps to damp any pitching motion in a seaway . |
| 10 | This is deliberate , in that it helps to identify key questions about support in families which need to be addressed in later chapters . |
| 11 | Carbon has four electrons that it uses to form chemical bonds . |
| 12 | Clinton favours national health spending caps and managed care networks to keep health costs from rising faster than average incomes , and the play or pay concept ( whereby employers either provide employees with healthcare benefits or pay the government a tax that it uses to provide medical benefits ) to guarantee universal health care coverage . |
| 13 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |
| 14 | In a statement issued after the meeting the resolution was described as " totally unacceptable " on the grounds that it failed to condemn Palestinian violence and questioned Israel 's sovereignty over Jerusalem . |
| 15 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 16 | It is only through feminist psychology 's attention to work like Ladner 's Afrocentric sociology , that it comes to consider specific features of black girls ' socialization in their families and communities ( Williams 1979 ) . |
| 17 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 18 | Similarly , in response to the Feb. 19 announcement by the major car manufacturer Autolatina ( the holding company for Ford and Volkswagen in Brazil ) that it intended to shed 8,000 jobs , workers at two car plants in Sao Bernardo near Sao Paulo stopped production and blocked a highway , and leaders of the Sao Paulo Metal Worker 's Union stated that they would not accept the dismissals . |
| 19 | It is hard to believe that it intended to withhold that protection in all cases where a jury might think that the place in question was not necessary or desirable or where the authorities could not by evidence justify their policies to a jury 's satisfaction . |
| 20 | In a large frying or saute pan put a slab of butter ( I use a good quality butter and find that it pays to prepare 2 lb. at a time since it keeps almost indefinitely and is immeasurably superior to fresh butter for frying bread , croquettes , rissoles , fish cakes , veal escalopes , fish à la meunière and a score of other tricky cooking jobs ) . |
| 21 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 22 | The US says that it intends to axe one satellite . |
| 23 | Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence . |
| 24 | The scheme does not cover owner-occupiers who require assistance with mortgage interest payments , or boarders requiring help with their board and lodging charges , although the Government has given notice that it intends to review these payments . |
| 25 | Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years . |
| 26 | The jockeying for position has begun and the Civic Forum 's statement that it intends to contest those elections has met with opposition from within its ranks . |
| 27 | One of the main criticisms of The Health of the Nation is that it fails to pay serious attention to health inequalities . |
| 28 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 29 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 30 | It has been attacked on the grounds that it attempts to relate particular skills to different levels of management , or that it sectionalises/parochialises management thinking . |