Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea has now reached dimensions where it requires some assistance by individuals with stature and/or money to legitimize its growth . |
| 2 | The failure of the Warsaw uprising , where it had several adherents among the Russian officers of the garrison , dealt the organization a severe blow . |
| 3 | Section 7(4) imposes a duty on the disposal authority to issue such a notice where it appears that continuation of activities to which the licence relates would cause pollution of water , a danger to public health or are seriously detrimental to amenities of the locality , and can not be avoided by modifying the conditions specified in the licence . |
| 4 | If judicial review is seen as going further and being concerned with the protection of groups as well as individuals , standing rules should only require that the applicant show that he , she or it shares some interest with others . |
| 5 | Although it receives little publicity outside the ICI Group , Chlor-chemicals is one of ICI 's longest standing and most consistently successful businesses . |
| 6 | Its platform was explicitly anti-immigration , although it denied any sympathy with neo-Nazis . |
| 7 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 8 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 9 | Although it retains some features in common with the ‘ orthodox account ’ it also departs from it significantly , especially in its emphasis on the importance of ‘ justice ’ within prisons . |
| 10 | In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time . |
| 11 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 12 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 13 | The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies . |
| 14 | The house was insured for £64,000 , although it transpired that insurance for a completed house and contents had been issued , and the house was not in fact covered . |
| 15 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 16 | This model , too , is silent on gender issues , although it leaves more space for their inclusion . |
| 17 | ( If you use a broadcast conversation — for example a TV chat show — remember that although it shares many features with private conversation it will also have an important difference : that the participants are speaking for an audience as well as for themselves . ) |
| 18 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |
| 19 | The Office is currently considering the establishment of a computer-readable data archive ( CRDA ) , and although it has few answers to the problems facing the world archival community in such matters , I hope that it is in the position to ask some interesting questions . |
| 20 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
| 21 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 22 | That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax . |
| 23 | Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing . |
| 24 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 25 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 26 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 27 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 28 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 29 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 30 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |