Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The US says that it intends to axe one satellite . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years . |
| 15 | One of the main criticisms of The Health of the Nation is that it fails to pay serious attention to health inequalities . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had the feeling that it wanted to reach some sort of understanding with her , to tell her something in its rough , mute animal way . |
| 18 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |
| 19 | One problem with the Royal College of General Practitioners is that it seems to equate general practice exclusively with being an NHS general practitioner . |
| 20 | Mwinyi launched the country 's second five-year plan in Parliament on April 18 , 1989 , saying that it aimed to raise real growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) on the mainland to 6 per cent a year by the end of the plan period in 1992/93 , compared with 3.9 per cent in 1987/88 . |
| 21 | Thus , you drag the second line indent marker to the right , drop it , and the change happens — all much quicker than it takes to read this sentence . |
| 22 | As the lifting kite is going to be large enough to carry the weight of line , carrier and passenger(s) , there will be quite a pull , so it pays to use good quality braided Dacron of adequate breaking strain . |
| 23 | The boilie is then rotated round the bend so it comes to rest half way along the shank . |
| 24 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 25 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 26 | Fortunately for the Government , this short debate in the House of Lords seems to have attracted little attention from the press , and it continued to receive general approbation for the exhibition , with the relevance of the competition remaining largely unquestioned . |
| 27 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 28 | And it helps to generate new energy because there is a belief . ’ |
| 29 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 30 | It monitors the activity of banks , which are required to submit monthly reports to it , and it attempts to spot any bank that is likely to face difficulties . |