Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to rule-making , thereby reducing the degree of uncertainty confronting workers and management , it can also be a vehicle for resolving disputes , a power relationship and , where it takes place at enterprise or plant level , it may be regarded as a form of participation for workers or their representatives ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 2 | Although the desire to become a home-owner may represent a genuine social aspiration for these women and their families , there is no evidence that it guarantees satisfaction with housework : the housewives in the sample who did own their homes were no more satisfied than those whose homes were rented . |
| 3 | Those policyholders without index-linked policies have had to frequently increase their sum insured so that it keeps pace with inflation and continues to cover the full cost of rebuilding their homes . |
| 4 | If , however , I omit to do something with the result that it suffers injury to health which results in death , we think that a charge of manslaughter should not be an inevitable consequence , even if the omission is deliberate . |
| 5 | One of the principles of hypnopaedia is that it transforms sleep into hypnosis . |
| 6 | The first major problem with Fforde 's work is that it equates collectivism with socialism , which is as historically wrong as it is jejune . |
| 7 | Yes , certainly , because I think that it gives depth to life . |
| 8 | The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance . |
| 9 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 10 | The size and quality of this sample , its relatively recent date , and the fact that it includes travel on foot and by pedal cycle in the same detail as motorised travel make the resulting data particularly valuable for the study of many aspects of personal travel on weekdays in London . |
| 11 | One is that it provides scope for corruption ; e.g. , in the placing of government purchases , the allocation of commodities in excess demand , and in regulatory activities . |
| 12 | Such a usage is still ultimately deictic , in that it makes reference to participant-role , but it is not directly place-deictic ( in that there is no anchorage to the location of the present speech event ) . |
| 13 | Oftel does say that it believes video on demand comes under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act , rather than BT 's Public Telecommunications Operator licence , and while the ITC agrees , it also says that the question of whether it constitutes a broadcasting service has still to be decided . |
| 14 | The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests . |
| 15 | Take the kite down to ground level and at either side , it will again reach a point where the aerodynamic forces are balanced , and it hovers nose into wind , the spine horizontal and cross-spars vertical . |
| 16 | And it helps stave off cancer , did n't it ? |
| 17 | It is the sentence , and nothing else' which has sense , and it has sense in virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 18 | It is the sentence , and nothing else , which has sense , and it has sense by virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 19 | Yet if it goes hand in hand with a commitment to redistributing power and wealth , literacy becomes one of the tools a government can use to create a new society . |
| 20 | If ‘ knowledge is power ’ then there is a danger that the system will lose much of its power if it loses control of information about itself . |
| 21 | Either way , the club remains legal and if it brings relief from pain on the greens then , say salesmen , it is worth every penny . |
| 22 | It seems hardly credible , but it happens year after year even after reminders are posted . |
| 23 | Of course , giving time and helping others is important : but it goes hand in hand with collective action to bring about wider change . |
| 24 | … The contracting states have a certain margin of appreciation in assessing whether such a need exists … but it goes hand in hand with a European supervision , embracing both the legislation and the decisions applying it , even those given by an independent court . |
| 25 | But it makes sense for society to have a single regulatory body that does the checking and a law whose enforcement entitles individuals to assume that drugs being sold have been checked out as safe . |
| 26 | Not only joy to the sheep that 's been rescued , but it brings joy in heaven . |
| 27 | It says it faces problems because it receives money for average rather than actual salaries . |
| 28 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 29 | Because it frees performance from time , assembling it bit by bit , it encourages demystified production : ‘ Tape runs forwards , backwards and at many speeds . |
| 30 | In both novels the solution to the problem the heroine faces is harmony through love , yet the outcome is considerably less satisfying in The Sycamore Tree because it entails renunciation of life itself . |