Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , as with the rank-and-file townsmen , the State 's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants .
2 Tarbes is a busy , professional plant with a big enough workload to enable it to adopt modern manufacturing techniques .
3 Held , ( 1 ) granting the application , that ( per Taylor and Farquharson L.JJ. ) , since the defendants stood to lose their liberty if the judge 's order were upheld , the court should act by analogy with the practice of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) which , by section 23(1) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , permitted the adduction of fresh evidence where justice required it ; that ( per Sir Donald Nicholls V.-C. ) under R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(2) the court retained sufficient flexibility to enable it to admit fresh evidence where justice so required ; and that , accordingly , the evidence would be admitted notwithstanding that the usual conditions for admissibility admitted might not have been satisfied ( post , pp. 223C–E , 226F–G , 227C–D ) .
4 Independence allows it to try new parts that others may not be able to play .
5 However , its terms of reference require it to seek effective liaison with the university and voluntary sectors of higher education in Wales , and with NAB in England .
6 The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved .
7 Whilst boards of directors may delegate the day to day conduct of an offer to individual directors or committees of directors , the board as a whole must ensure that proper arrangements are in place to enable it to monitor that conduct in order that each director may fulfil that responsibility .
8 As it flies along , the enhanced shimmer of water helps it to find new pools .
9 Mdf 's smooth surface enables it to accept all types of finishes , from veneers and laminates , to paints and varnishes .
10 The University has in place a funding strategy to enable it to achieve this objective ; the funds , however , which it would hope to raise for that purpose would not be available to meet the costs of relocating the medical departments ( see para. 3.1 above ) .
11 However , its task is made much more difficult by the fact that derogations granted to the Welsh water authority allow it to pump raw sewage into both those rivers .
12 The Council would consider seeking modifications to its Charter to allow it to delegate added powers .
13 And mainframe sales still generate enough profit to enable it to do other things .
14 The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year .
15 By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with .
16 The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws .
17 Its articulated design allows it to negotiate sharp curves and it arrived at Brecon in Spring 1986 after its Indian home line closed the year before .
18 The technical skill of the house martin enables it to construct gravity-defying mud nests beneath the eaves of houses .
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