Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supposed inferiority of women to men , although it existed in developing countries before colonialism , was reinforced by Victorian colonists and through Christianity . |
| 2 | The defence applies in cases of intentional and negligent infliction of harm , although it operates in different ways . |
| 3 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 4 | Although it began in southern Spain , his movement quickly spread west and north , eventually establishing its most tenacious roots in Galicia , which was to become its heartland . |
| 5 | The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) . |
| 6 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 8 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
| 9 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 10 | Is there not a deep self that keeps active in the subconscious , expressing in dreams the thoughts that it evades in conscious life ? |
| 11 | The first is that it consists in visual imagery . |
| 12 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 13 | Or it may need to employ staff , and a statement that it engages in discriminatory employment practices may potentially affect its ability to attract staff of the right calibre . |
| 14 | Depositors and liquidators of the failed bank served writs claiming both that the Bank fluffed its legal duty to regulate and supervise BCCI , and that it acted in bad faith , an accusation designed to bypass its broad legal immunity from prosecution . |
| 15 | Some historians remain sceptical about this , while others are convinced that it does , and that an early form of military organisation was based upon the herred system ; that it appears in southern Norway and Västergötland in Sweden too has led to the contention that it was introduced there in Viking times , perhaps by Swegen or Cnut . |
| 16 | To the extent , for example , that it exists in local government in the United Kingdom ( and to that extent , it is better described in terms of ‘ caucus ’ rather than ‘ cabinet ’ ) it is a very recent historical phenomenon indeed . |
| 17 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 18 | Thus " obscene " , in law , has a very different , and very much stronger , meaning than it possesses in colloquial usage . |
| 19 | But in particular terms ( and in terms of ‘ kto-kogo ’ ) , economic rationality means that Romania must exchange its hard-earned capacity to manufacture steel or munitions for a dependence on the GDR , Czechoslovakia and the USSR which costs more in freedom and leverage than it saves in economic resources . |
| 20 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 21 | is yet another testament to the record industry 's fiercely-held conviction that there is an insatiable appetite among the general public for old rope provided it comes in new packages . |
| 22 | Pressure on sterling resumed in New York late on Tuesday night after mounting speculation that the UK Treasury was extremely reluctant to raise base rates ahead of next week 's Conservative party conference , and it continued in financial markets in the Far East . |
| 23 | The town planning ship ran into choppy waters and it remains in uncertain seas . |
| 24 | His love affair was with laughter , and it came in Black Comedy when his character , sculptor Brindsley Miller , was improving the look of his shabby flat by ‘ borrowing ’ priceless porcelain and antique furniture from his friend next door to impress his fiancee 's snooty father , who is visiting on the same evening that the supposed richest man in the world is arriving to inspect his sculpture . |
| 25 | The Council of Heads of Government meets without a published agenda that we can discuss before meetings are held , and it meets in absolute secrecy . |
| 26 | And it helps in healing disease . |
| 27 | Its political system is antiquated , compared with its neighbours , and it enjoys in free Europe the melancholy distinction of boasting no government since the war to represent the majority will . |
| 28 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 29 | According to this , we can best assess the intrinsic value of something if we ask how good or bad a thing it would be if it existed in complete isolation . |
| 30 | What could be more sensible than the suggestion that the best way of evaluating a thing for its very own self , and not for its effects or its contribution to the value of larger wholes , is to consider what value it would possess if it existed in complete isolation ? |