Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 2 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 3 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 4 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 5 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 6 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 7 | Minton must have recognised its truth for he bequeathed it in his will to the Royal College of Art where it hangs as a memorial to him . |
| 8 | Varroa originated in the Far East where it lives as a parasite on the Apis cerana species of honey bee . |
| 9 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 10 | The object also acts to integrate the representative individual within the normative order of the larger social group , where it serves as a medium of intersubjective order inculcated as a generative practice through some version of ‘ habitus ’ . |
| 11 | Similarly , remind yourself that even if the worst comes to the worst and you need to go in the middle of the interview it is no big deal although it feels like a disaster to you . |
| 12 | Chlorinated trisodium polyphosphate is the combination of a strongly alkaline phosphate and chlorine and therefore has a significant cleaning capability although it suffers as a disinfectant through its low chlorine content . |
| 13 | So , although it sounds like a greeting , it probably still has some of the ‘ come along , follow me ’ meaning in it . |
| 14 | The problem is that , although it pulls like a train , I ca n't get any more than 35 mph out of it , comfortably , that is . |
| 15 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 16 | Although it appears as a contradiction , just like some of the stated motives of those leaving , I believe it is a form of adaptive behaviour . |
| 17 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 18 | ‘ The more effects you use the more you lose the original signal of the guitar and I like the fact that it sounds like a guitar and it sounds really twangy . |
| 19 | The difference found in these is difficult to explain away and I shall accept the conclusion that it derives from a change in the distinctiveness of the pre-trained cues . |
| 20 | This programme , titled Repelita , has been discussed by Ross ( 1986 ) who indicates that it operates via a series of 5-year plans . |
| 21 | Although such characteristics probably do play some secondary role , we find this interpretation unconvincing and suspect that it stems from a need to make a connection with what are perceived as the relatively more ‘ attractive ’ features of psychosis , rather than with those emphasised in descriptions of schizophrenia , a concept that has taken on almost entirely negative connotations . |
| 22 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 23 | The value of Black 's theory lies in the fact that it allows for a conception of metaphor as the interaction between two discourses , but like Goodman 's concept of imperial appropriation , it has overtones of subjugation . |
| 24 | Some ministers perhaps keep it on because they feel that it caters for a section of the adult church with whom they are unwilling to compromise in the sermon . |
| 25 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 26 | It stands alone as a study of infant care practices , but we hope that it contributes to a discussion of those factors which form Bergman 's ‘ critical mass . ’ |
| 27 | And the reason for this , is that it belongs to a tradition , a fashion if you like , of writing , which went dramatically out of , out of fashion immediately after World War One . |
| 28 | This is the amount of food that it takes for a fish to stay the same weight , i.e. just survive . |
| 29 | The essence of preaching or prayer is that it asks for a response now , not later . |
| 30 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |