Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Spain it weathers into the mushrooms , ships and other weird pinnacles of the Ciudad Encantada ( Enchanted City ) near where it shades the back streets of Cuenca ( plate 1.1 ) . |
| 2 | Where it studies the specific characteristics of old and young subjects , it makes age the single focus of investigation , and frequently ignores gender differences . |
| 3 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom argued that there was nothing in the manner of its introduction , or in the fact that it affected the Anglo-Spanish vessels , that made the Act of 1988 incompatible with Community law . |
| 5 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 6 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 7 | Conventionalism is a conception — an interpretation — of legal practice and tradition ; its fate depends on our ability to see in our practice conventions of the kind that it considers the exclusive grounds of law . |
| 8 | Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 . |
| 9 | One moment halfway up the straight it looked as if Eddery might have cut it too fine ; the next it was a question of how far he would win by , for this burst of speed was so decisive that it made the top horses in Europe look one-paced . |
| 10 | Black women 's sexuality , in particular , is often viewed as so excessive that it breaks the sublimated bonds of the healthy nuclear family and excludes black women from the category of true women . |
| 11 | The advantage of the notional syllabus is that it takes the communicative facts of language into account from the beginning without losing sight of grammatical and situational factors . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that it avoids the above dilemmas , by claiming only the narrowest scope for semantics , such a theory recommends itself to the pragmaticist for the following reasons . |
| 13 | 5.2 shall ensure that it invoices the Licensed Products immediately on their despatch to third parties . |
| 14 | Thus the reasons put forward for the present rule are first , that it preserves the constitutional proprieties leaving Parliament to legislate in words and the courts ( not Parliamentary speakers ) , to construe the meaning of the words finally enacted ; second , the practical difficulty of the expense of researching Parliamentary material which would arise if the material could be looked at ; third , the need for the citizen to have access to a known defined text which regulates his legal rights ; fourth , the improbability of finding helpful guidance from Hansard . |
| 15 | A further possible objection to gradation is that it limits the sentencing powers of the judge . |
| 16 | The central feature of the rhetorical perspective proposed by Billig ( 1985 , 1987 ) is that it studies the argumentative aspects of discourse ( see also Shotter , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system , built using Chorus Systemes SA 's Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel 's Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors . |
| 18 | They say that it wes the different claes that done it — the way the butler dressed — an it hed looked at the claes an taen a bad wey o the claes . |
| 19 | The strengths of the theory are , first that it explains the perceptual phenomena I have just described , second that the brain has a real need for the operation it postulates , and third that it gives a role to a prominent but hitherto unexplained anatomical characteristic of the neocortex . |
| 20 | But in this instance , the exception is more apparent than real , since if the person insulted or abused can read the display from his garden , the offence is committed ( assuming , of course , that it satisfies the other requirements of the section ) . |
| 21 | The most basic criterion for a successful design is that it satisfies the functional constraints imposed . |
| 22 | ( iii ) So far as article 5(1) itself is concerned , he submitted that it is clearly established by Court of Justice decisions that it reflects the close links created by the contract between the parties thereto , and the need to resolve all difficulties which may arise in connection with the contract in the same court in a country which has a close connection with the case , i.e. the court in the country where the obligation in question has to be performed . |
| 23 | We ca n't say that it occupies the same addresses in all species , because we ca n't meaningfully compare address labels across species . |
| 24 | The company says that it sees the new polymers eventually being used to replace main random access memory as well as rotating secondary store . |
| 25 | Polybius ' constant presupposition that the Romans are both transparent in their motives and fundamentally reasonable in their actions involves three assumptions : ( i ) that the Roman upper class is not divided by internal conflicts of interests and convictions ; ( 2 ) that it controls the lower classes of Rome , the Latins and the other allies without much difficulty ; ( 3 ) that its aim of world domination is eminently rational and does not pose many problems . |
| 26 | And it is no defence of restrictive trade to argue , in effect , that it taxes the Top-40 masses to satisfy the cravings of a few sophisticates . |
| 27 | The Law Society had greater reservations about franchising than the other bodies , except that it liked the administrative advantages and thought that they should be extended to all legal aid practitioners who satisfied quality control criteria developed by the Board and the Law Society . |
| 28 | No sooner had the women 's liberation movement moved from the sixties to the seventies than it saw the economic conditions for its demands evaporate . |
| 29 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 30 | Ministers have already decided that they will have to give cable operators a free choice on the technology they use , provided it meets the basic requirements already laid down by the DoI and endorsed last month by the Eden Committee . |